[vesselle]

just to clear something up. crafting requires skill: investing points into the feat, acquiring the parts you need and the actual craft attempt. you can and do fail your crafting for any number of reasons. not enough skill, not enough gold, chance and prolly other things i know nothing about. so far with 15 points in the skill, all i can successfully accomplish is to change a few aspects of my current armor, like the neckline and arms. when i try the torso and legs, i've failed each time. and i don't have nearly enough gold or skill to design my own armor from the ground up. so far, i've made the minor part of a breastplate. but haven't acquired the skill or parts needed to make the major portion to join them into one unit.
OTOH dying is easy. which i think is just fine. i've dyed many clothes IRL and it's definitely NOT rocket science. read the instructions first for ratio of cloth to water, but basically it *boils down* to this:
boil water
add dye & dissolve
plop the item in
stir and boil for a set amount of time
rinse and dry
voila. a pretty darned good dye job.

but i'll tell ya, i'm glad they don't make you do all that ingame. far too tedious. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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[ 12-12-2003, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: vesselle ]