Yeah, I'm elvaan rng as well. I can tell you from experience that +accuracy isn't the same as +rng accuracy. Anything that adds +accuracy doesn't affect your ranged accuracy. So you don't get an added bonus from the sniper's ring.

Also, I recommend you don't get the sniper's rings because of the -defense. Rng already has very low defense, so when you pull hate, and you will pull hate, that extra 50 defense or so can be the difference between life and death.

If you want to buy a slightly more expensive item, I recommend you shell out the gil for hawker's knives or hawker's +1. You get 1 extra dmg on the dagger, more agl, and more rng accuracy. All of which are good things.

Edited, Sat Dec 11 15:47:59 2004

It won't happen. Not only because the game wasn't coded for it, but also because of two other reasons.. lag and scamming. The first; if you ever played Ultima Online, notice how incredibly massive the lag became when you approached a populated area, such as Britain bank, even if you were on a good connection. This is because the game had to parse the color data for every single item of clothing a player was wearing, and when you have nearly a hundred people onscreen at once, that puts a serious strain on bandwidth. Now, UO was a sprite-based game and for the most part, 2 dimensional. If they did that in FFXI, the game would go from "challenging on dialup" to "impossible without broadband". You can actually still play the game on a regular modem, although Dynamis and such would probably be out of the question. If you thought Jeuno was laggy now, just imagine how worse it'd be if the game now had half a dozen more things to download per-player!

The second reason is scamming. If you could dye items to your own colors, you can bet that someone would try to manipulate the trade window. Let's try and trade "Super Boots" (made up name), which have the same icon as "Lame Boots", but are a different color. We'll dye the "Lame Boots" the same color as the "Super" ones. I vehemently oppose scamming, but put two-and-two together and you'll see how one could easily deceive people this way. While still possible, it's hard to do in this game, and that's why those who do it are even more hated then, well, something that's hated a lot!

Actually, I've got a third reason for it too. Eventually, the programmers will get lazy, and then recolored items become the ONLY way to see new content. Using UO as an example again, it got to a point where their idea of "new" monsters, armor, etc. was simply giving them a color which you couldn't dye or see normally. How exciting.

However, this doesn't mean SquareEnix shouldn't change the color of monsters, since the game could load that data at zone time and never have to do it again until you zone again. It'd be nice to see different-colored leeches (and other mobs) someplace other then Sanctuary of Zi'Tah, for instance..