Mechanics: Customizing equipment skins
It will only be moments before you meet up with your fellow legion and embark through a dangerous dungeon. On your way there, bandits are making their every attempt in stopping you from reaching your destination. You fend them off easily as if it’s a daily ritual. But something is out of the ordinary this time; when you loot the last killed enemy, a magical weapon presents itself in the looting table! Just looking at the exceptional stats makes you feel ecstatic. This rare sword has bonuses that will FINALLY allow you to out damage that cocky assassin. He’s been gloating all week about his “uber dps”, but now it will be your time to shine. As you anxiously wait for the item to soulbound, your jaws fall to the floor; this weapon may have amazing stats but it looks like something the graphic artists designed while intoxicated.
This is something that happens to all of us. We find equipment with incredible stats but quickly feel disappointed when it isn’t visually appealing. Because it is a superior item in terms of numbers, we often find ourselves wearing gear that doesn’t look good at all.
Unappealing gear may result in "facepalms" from friends.
Although it is pretty hard to find gear that is not graphically exquisite in Aion, certain styles may not mix well with people. Take for instance, the sword above. I thought the sword above did not look that great. We can see the feeling was mutual between my friend and I. I still had to use it however just for the sake of stats.
What Aion has built right into the game is one of the most simple, yet robust customization systems for your gear. essentially, you can take the “skin” of any equipment (some restrictions apply, explained later) and literally put it on any item (again, a few restrictions apply). Below are pictures in how exactly you go about doing this process.
This is the basic menu screen.
The skin changing menu
The top open slot is where you put the piece of gear that you want the STATS of.
First slot is for the equipments STATS.
The bottom open slot is where you put the piece of gear that you want the SKIN of.
Second slot is for the equipments SKIN.
Once these two steps are done, a cost is calculated. After paying the relatively inexpensive fee, the weapon will now have the stats and skin that you chose! Be aware, the item that was used to extract the skin from will be lost.
One of the ways people look at this is that you can basically level up your equipment. This is however, UNTRUE. Infact, its the opposite. You are putting the SKIN of an item. You are not putting the STATS. It is a difficult concept to understand without actually trying it.
The system also does have a few restrictions. The following are the main ones:
Must be level 30: You must be at least level 30 before your character may utilize this system.
Cannot cross armor types: You may not put the stats of a plate gear on something that has the skin of leather; the skin and stats have to be from the same armor category.
Certain items cannot be changed: Sets like the Daevanion armor, Abyss armor, and other certain unique equipment.
Dyes will be lost: Any dyes used on the STAT item will be lost. Dyes on the SKIN will NOT be.
No more facepalms for you my friend!
A simple tool like this can have strong influences in how much someone can customize their avatars. Gone are the days of countless people looking like clones just because those particular items had the better bonuses (tier gear anyone?). This system allows players to create a stronger “bond” with their character because you will be picking gear based on style, not stats.
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This really sounds nice !! very nice !!!
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Yep, it is a sweet system.
This is the thing that make me want to play this game.
Able to be unique…
Love this!
I do hope that they loosen up on the restrictions though, especially for Abyss gear. Would be pretty wasteful of this amazing system if everyone equipes the same armor which cannot change skin.
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wow this sounds so amazing but i have a question….for example if the stats item is for example lvl 30 but the skin item is lets say lvl 40 i can do the change?
also how is the customisation in crafting? anyone?
Yes, you can put a higher level item’s SKIN on a lower level item’s STATs.
Crafting, not so sure about. I’ll have to ask Zumbaro
So do i have to have the item that i want the skin of in my inventory in order for this to work? or is there some way to copy the item i want the skin of, cuz in the menu, it says put the stat item on top and the skin item on bottom, so how can you put the skin item you want in the bottom if you don’t have, or do you have to have that one too?
Is it possible to actually change the looks of gear from Elysian side to look like Asmodian gear? Im really interested in look of this set here: http://aion.mmorpg-life.com/gallery/adma-guards-leather-set/14/67/
Will I have to mess with the client or it may be possible to either get that set or make other set look like this one? I cant wait to see a elysian character wearing that.
@ Jake
You got to have both. The Item with the skin you want. And the item with the stats you want. The two will “fuse” into one item.
@Mineyo
I don’t see why not. But I see two possible problems. 1. Getting your hands on the Asmo Item. 2. The item might auto look different. (Example: We all know the same item will “model”/look different on a Male Elyos wearing it vs. a Female Elyos. Thus the same Item may look different on a Female Asmodian vs. a Female Elyos, which is out of our control and part of the game graphic engine developers have designed. Think of Lineage 2, the same item looked very different on each race, Racy on the Dark Elf vs. Classy on the Light Elf.
Thank you! I had no idea how this worked and nobody could tell me. I can’t wait to be able to reskin armor
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I have a doubt what happens, for example if you have the stats AND manastones in that item? it will keep everything or do the manastones will be lost? thanks for your help!
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I was just wondering how you went about this? Is there a special Npc that you need to visit and have it done? Great post and added to favs ready for when im 30 though very unsure as where need to go to have this done
I am with Sylar on this one….do you have to talk to someone to do this or how exactly do you get to the screen to do this? Thanks!
Where….the….hell….do….you….do….this? What good is the guide and window if you can’t find the stupid person who actually does this?
For anyone who is still wondering where to go to get this done…
In Pandemonium on Market Street there is a person in the same little shop as godstones.
The shop is on the right side of the street as you enter Pandemonium and the sign over the door is of crossed swords. Item remodellers name is Keruthis.