FFXIV: Dawntrail Patch Notes: Facewear And Dyes

The early access period for Dawntrail began yesterday. I thought I would try to cover the patch notes like what I have done for the last few EVE Online expansions. I have to put in similar because I do have a real life job and CCP drops their patch notes on Fridays so I have the weekend to work on them. 

Three days until the official launch of Dawntrail

This eleventh post in the series will cover information labeled "Items" in the patch notes: Facewear and Dyes.

Facewear

Facewear is a new form of accessories for the head, separate from other equippable accessories. The feature addresses a desire among many players to wear eye glasses as well as hats.

Equipment slot - Facewear is equipped via a new equipment slot in the Character window, or by accessing the Facewear interface under Character in the main menu. Facewear will also appear in portraits.

Acquiring Facewear - Facewear is acquired by using corresponding items such as a copy of The Faces We Wear - Oval Spectacles. Once acquired, they can be freely equipped or removed at any time, and customized with a selection of twelve colors.

The following fashion accessories have been converted into facewear:

• False Oval Spectacles
• False Shaded Spectacles
• False Classic Spectacles
• Rose-colored Spectacles

Calamity salvagers - The fashion accessories listed above will no longer appear in the Fashion Accessories window. However, players who acquired them prior to Patch 7.0 may obtain corresponding facewear free of charge by speaking with the Calamity salvagers located in Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks (11.4,14.4), Old Gridania (10.0,8.4), and Ul'dah - Steps of Thal (12.6,13.1).

Pre-existing items -  Items used to acquire these fashion accessories have not been removed from the game. If one is in your inventory or obtained via trading or the market board, it can be used to obtain corresponding facewear.

Dyes

• Up to two dyes can now be used on a single piece of gear.
  
  
• Gear that allows more than one dye will display two separate dye tabs in the Item Dyeing window.
• Additional gear that allows for multiple dyes will be added gradually in future updates.
• Following this change to dyeing, currently selected instant portraits may need to be edited.
  
  
• Undo Color Selection and Redo Color Selection buttons have been added to the Item Dyeing window.
  
  
• After selecting a color, it can now be set as a favored dye.
  
  
• An option to preview preferred color schemes using favored dyes has been added.
  
  
• An option to preview a previously applied color scheme has been added.
  
  
• An option to invert colors selected as dye 1 and dye 2 has been added.
  
  
• A marker indicating no dyes have been applied to an item has been added.
  
  
• When previewing your character's appearance while using a gamepad, players can now press R1 (RB) to switch between color categories.