I disagree. More color options. I can buy a light with over a million color options and Gold is being limited to a measly 15? 20? shades? boooooor-ing.
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matching anything to the dracthyr barbershop armor is almost impossible. Even the sets they’ve added in this expac that look like they were designed to match are off.
It’s been very frustrating trying to come up with mogs that use non-barbershop shoulders that look good in both forms.
edit: It’s also strange which belts they decide do and don’t disable the ‘breechcloth’ barbershop armor. some ‘belt buckles only’ belts remove the breechcloth while other ‘lots of dangly bits’ belts leave the breechcloth intact.
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A dye system.
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That’s outdated man. People been using Dyes on armor since 97. Do it right, and make the armor LED. Let that armor swirl like a desktop GPU fan.
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Maybe so but this game engine can’t handle that.
Its wild that they introduced dyes in d3 for mogging, but can’t do the same for wow.
The tech is already there.
Different engines and different styles of armor creation. Blizz explained in a video how they paint and HD shade the gear in the WoW engine. They tried the color dyes with the cat mount in mechagon. They’d have to do something similar for all armor, which isn’t possible, given the different iterations over the past 20 years. It’s why we get so many color options nowadays.
They really need to add a dye system, but then they couldn’t be so lazy with recolors so it will never happen
I just want a color wheel for all gear including weapons so I can match to my liking. Would be great if it had a color picker so I can pick once and than match all my gear to that with maybe a secondary and trim/accent color option too.
Really tired of all the off shades of colors that don’t seem to match and be off by a little lightening or darkening. So many nice T-mogs if we could just match colors. As it stands right now there are too many off colors that do not match so I end up with maybe 3 options of matches and 2 of those are not styles I’d want and the third isn’t the right theme. 
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I wonder if rather than a dye system, they could give us a tinting system. That way recolors still matter but you could at least cover for minor differences.
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As i said in the other thread.
It’s amazing how wow has gone 19 years without establishing templates for equipment colors.
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As long as the tints match it could work. Right now all the colors are off as if every time they make a new item it CAN’T be the same color as any other item in game. WTF? Allow us to actually match gear for once.
I’ve been feeling this for a while, it’s not just gold though. I’m such a xmog diva I swear.
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Here’s what the game sees:
It takes this texture painting and applies it to the 3D model it’s associated with. Gear does the exact same thing. For every 3D model in the game. These textures are painted, so changing the hue is impossible.
When someone says it would be a ton of work to add a dye system to the game, they really mean it. The game is using an engine from 2004. It has been updated, but certain things can’t be changed without rebuilding the game from scratch.
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Seven BILLION?? 
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Yes, I counted! 
Black and white armor items are equally bad as the golds with matching shades almost non-existent.
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Yeah, a dye system means that equipement would now have more layer, least one for base texture and shading with other layers dedicated to dying.
It would make it so that every equipment slot would need to carry another data value.
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Basically every colour has this issue. Maybe the red is a little too dark, maybe the metal trimming is more silver than it is gunmetal, maybe the leather is tanned a lighter shade of brown, maybe the stone is more like ivory, etc. It becomes so difficult to mix and match armor pieces because even if the colour scheme is right, it’s an entirely wrong shade. Might not be much of a difference, but it’s enough of one to make it glaringly obvious under scrutiny
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nightmare fuel