I just read the wardrobe and dye blogs and I’m completely overwhelmed with happy emotions right now
so much that I felt like making a thread to express my gratitude to the developers for making such amazing changes.
The one thing that bugged me the most in this game, from beta on, was the transmutation system. I’m a collector, and I’m an indecisive person. I just hated the idea of destroying one outfit to get the looks of another. I couldn’t do it. To this day, I think I’ve used a total of 3 transmutation crystals — and this is despite the fact that I love putting together outfits. But the previous implementation of the transmute system felt really destructive and clunky to me, so much that I just didn’t use it.
Which made me drift away from the game. I haven’t played much in the past months, because to me character customization is one of the driving factors why I play a game (along with experiencing the content itself, of course). I couldn’t get excited about aquiring new armor or weapons, I couldn’t be bothered to farm for specific items (e.g. in dungeons), because what’s the point when you can’t use them? What’s the point when you have to destroy one item you like in order to wear another item you like?
This new system offers everything I hoped for.
- I can now finally make use of the transmute system without destroying anything. I will be buying plenty of transmutation crystals in the future, because now the system is user friendly and makes me WANT to use it.
- I can preview all armor without having to run to the mists do it. I can preview even more armor than there even is in the mist wardrobe!
- I can collect an item on one character and use it on all my other characters! This makes me so, so happy because I have 8 active characters (most of them level 80) and a bunch of little ones, and even more that I’m planning on. Extremely alt-friendly change
- Town clothes are included, too! This is so cool. I’ve barely bought town clothes in the store before, because it felt a bit pointless with 8 characters and only having town clothes on one of them. Now I’ll buy ALL THE QUAGGAN HATS
- Converting transmutation stones to 3 charges: this one is the one that surprised me most, because in this day and age I honestly didn’t expect such user-friendliness and fairness from a gaming company anymore. But you showed me that it’s possible! I’m sure that most other companies would have used this opportunity to make us buy as many crystals as possible, but you actually thought of those who have many transmutation stones lying around. Plus this gives an added incentive to do map completion, which is truly great! I’ll still buy plents of crystals because of this awesome change. I thank you guys for being awesome.
- The dye changes. Account bound dyes! I’ll keep it short and just say that this is great. I’ll probably miss the excitement of having an unidentified dye drop occasionally (seriously, that icon is a blue-yellow-pink bundle of JOY), but that’s one tiny downside in an overall great package. I’m curious to see what new ways there will be to aquire unidentified dyes.
And again, thank you for making this feature super alt-friendly and letting us keep the dyes we’ve already unlocked, plus giving us unidentified dyes for the duplicats. The kindness is greatly appreciated.
Oh, is there a possibility to include hair accessories in the dye system? I would love to be able to change my asura’s hair bow to match the colors of her outfit. This would be great for color coordination and is one thing that could make this amazing system even better, to me anyways.
So, that’s pretty much it. Just wanted to express my gratitude for these great changes.
Everything has a place in the eternal alchemy.
Many thanks,
Awbee