off coloring trickery

lets stop looking for the forest through the trees when you're doing qol fixes because off coloring is pointless. Is it fun for you statistics to make people spend 5d to off color the way they want? try me, you just make people who like their colors in a particular order upset for zero reason. maybe offer to just move the already archived colors around. Antiquated is appropriate.

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Avalith#7347 wrote:

you just make people who like their colors in a particular order upset for zero reason.

...what???

I mean sure off coloring can be hard but I don't think I've ever, in my life, spent 5d to color anything. Unless you're trying to get 6 off colors on a chestpiece/weapon there is never a reason for it to cost THAT much.

Out of curiosity what on earth were you trying to get?

I assume you're counting the cost purely in Chromatic Orbs?

When it comes to off-colouring, people will often use the Vorici method--though you'll lose linked sockets, so it's best done before linking the item. Instead of using Chromatic Orbs, you use the bench socket recipes to increase/decrease the number of sockets, one at a time, until each socket is the colour you want--usually having the last socket be on-colour to lower the potential cost.

Looking at the prices in Mirage, you should be able to colour sockets, in the order you want, and probably also 6-link the item using bench for 1d. Divine cost seems higher in HC Mirage from the lower currencies having a little more value?

What in the hell are you trying to color? 6 blue sockets on a pure strength base?

Did you ever stop to think that the game is trying to teach you a lesson...


The game is designed to help facilitate certain build archetypes, a necessary part of the game because if it were TOO much of a sandbox we would have new players complaining about difficulty and confusion even more than they already do.

As such, the ability to get 6 off-colors is a GIFT. The fact that we absolutely can customize any piece of gear to any skill or build is what makes this game what it is. But if you are going to actively push the boundaries like that...expect it to cost you to do so.