For the love of all that is holy, there are so many outfits that would look AMAZING if only I could dye them the intended colour palettes
Have scribes make the pigments and then tailors can turn those pigments into dyes. Both professions would see such a spike in steady need it would be amazing
Easy win for 3 different sets of people! And so many more mogs would come out of it, giving each character more identity, which is the whole basis for so many decisions that have been made for this game
I doubt Blizzard will ever do this but if they ever do it would only be useable on new armors no way in hell Blizzard is going to go back through all the expansions to update the old models to change colors.
If they let you dye items then they can’t recycle looks ten thousand times in Trading Post rewards - like the cape hood combo I’m using that has come in 5 different colors thus far. Soooo… prolly not gonna happen.
They mentioned somewhere at some point that it would require them to code items differently. So they would have to start over with loot or something to be able to implement that kind of system. Most likely will see a dye system if we ever get wow 2 or if they ever do a type of “loot update” ( which I doubt they will do because of how many people it would upset )
My gripe is colors of the same type ( IE the reds ) are all different shades of red. There is no consistency so nothing matches if you try to match colors, one of the items is always a slightly different blue, or darker black…whatever. The hoods/scarves from the trading post are a good example. That orange and pink are hard to match with other orange/pink things in game.
If they didnt use so many different shades/tones of the same color things would be easier to match. They need to add more recolors of sets when they make gear.
Tinkering with 20+ year old rendering pipelines is doable, but it certainly wouldn’t be easy. Plus, having a feature that just doesn’t work with their previous two decades of armor appearances would be kind of awkward… and they certainly aren’t going to go and update all those sets by hand, that would be insane.
Well they are not going to fundamentally change it. Also there are like 4-5 reskins of each set, which pushes the importance of that down even further. If you are pushing for a complete WoW engine overhall, I would be all for it, but I think that ship sailed a long time ago unless MS decides it is worth it.
It would be a titanic task to do it to old gear based on how it’s designed. There is also how gear is color coded to denote the difficulty it came from.
Would be cool if they made cosmetic armor with a dye system in mind, though!
EverQuest has had a dye system in place since their 1st or 2nd expansion around 2001. They are also still using directx 9.0C, and they finally moved to 64 bit not long ago.
Granted their armor isn’t as elaborate as this game, but if the WoW devs wanted to add armor tinting, they could make it happen. I believe they don’t based purely off the cost to implement and maintain.
Here we have transmog, while there are very few similar options in EQ, which makes for a decent trade off to me. They also have player housing, but that’s a different topic entirely.
alot of elite pvp sets are only different because of different colors… lots of people could then basically obtain old elite pvp sets by dying them.
for example, the new mage tower rewards are simply recolors of Tomb of Sargeras tier… everyone could get the new mage tower rewards simply by dying their mythic ToS tier.
