How many people want color dyes for their armor?
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Me, me and me, and if that isn’t clear enough ME!!! 
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I want.
Well, at present blizzard doesn’t have the technology to implement it 
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Some people.
But…
It’s not really the approach WoW has in its art style.
Blizzard sort of wants to define the general visuals of Warcraft. That’s not something they’re leaving to the players to toy around with.
So every armor set has an art vision behind it. For Ny’alotha armor sets it’s a lot of black, red, and purple colors, because those are the ones you associate with The Old Gods and N’zoth. That’s the thematic art vision Blizzard wants to communicate within the game.
That art vision would be somewhat ruined if players had the opportunity to dye their new Ny’alotha plate armor in a mix of baby blue and bright pink colors.
Blizzard’s compromise is to offer different colors of the same set - colors that they decide - so nothing strays too far from the visual art theme.
Personally, I like it the way it is. I prefer that Blizzard’s art team are responsible and in charge of the visual appearance of WoW. I don’t really want every player to have the artistic freedom to play fashion designer and go nuts with colors and ruin the thematic vision of the art style.
So some people want dyes. But not Jito. 
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Doubt it’ll ever happen, with how there are numerous colour variations for any given piece of gear… and how Blizz wants you to go out and collect them for your mog collection.
Ideally it would’ve been great if you unlocked all variants of lesser difficulties as well as to the one you got the drop on.
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It would be nice, though I would prefer if Blizzard will make good looking mail armor. Dyes would not help if the set is stillborn garbage. It is shame that my hunter has to use 15 year old tmogs, they look much better than newer ones, even though they are low res.
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That’s subjective tbh, i personally like the Darkshore T3 Horde gear for example, but i’m pretty sure many peoples don’t agree with me.
Anyway dyes would be a nice addition, but during the BlizzCon 2018 the question has been asked and from the response it seems the armours aren’t really created in a way that make the dyes feature easy to use, they are created with a different layout system compared to Diablo 3 (wich allows dyes use), making WoW armour able to support dyes it seems something difficoult.
They said that could be possible tho in the future, but very unlikely they will be able to add it for older armours already created with their actual / previous systems, maybe future armour sets will be featable for dyes.
I agree, that is subjective and all that, I do not know how Horde sets look, as I do not play Horde, but the set section from wardrobe makes my eyes bleed.
T3 and one from BWL are somewhat ok, but that is all. Shaman is more lucky, though I still use t3 set, as I like it more than other sets. But since Blizzard removed class sets, shaman gets the same trash as hunter, I guess they do not want hunter to get anything nice and thus shaman should also suffer.
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Would be a nice addition, gw2 has a good system for that.
Im in for this, 100%
Now assuming that wow has an insane amount of mogs…I guess it wont be that easy xD
They already explained why they can’t do that.
But they never said they couldn’t implement armour specifically made to be dyed, and I hope they do that someday, just not for everything.
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Uh. I haven’t thought about that but, I do paint too, and that makes perfect sense. If it’s like that no wonders why they don’t, and honestly, I agree. It is better that way.
That is actually great idea !
Doubt the engine can handle a dye system without a major overhaul.
Though it would have been nice to have a wider variety of tints, that are obtainable to players. Far too many armors and tints are either incomplete or
locked to npc only like Warlock Tier 8.
There are at least 4 colors of it in game. Purple, Orange, Teal, and Green. All of them are incomplete, teal got only robe and green is restricted to hostile WoD warlocks.
I think their idea is slightly different. It’s not impossible, it’s just not how they do things.
From an artistic perspective, and you can hear from the video they linked before, the process of coloring even if digital it’s like an oil painting, which has many layers of colors to give you the resulting one. That makes it way more… Real, in a way. The colors are better. But that means, if you have a color which is the result of many colors interlaced with each other, if you change it you would be doing something he calls “tinting” : yea you change the color but you kill the depth of color itself, ruining the overall work and destroying the harmony they’re creating expansion after expansion.
Their style is the very reason why wow from an artistic point of view is WAY better than many other games, including gw and many others. It’s like a living painting or illustration, and that requires much effort. Tinting armors would surely damage that hard-earned balance. I think it’s worth keeping it, what they could do is prepare more tints of a same armor and give them freely to the player when you unlock the first one (the so called color variants). That would keep the style pristine while giving more colors as well. It’s a lot of work more tho.
Yaaaas queeen!
They don’t have to modify the old items. They could do it when designing some of the new items.
Blizzard doesn’t want dyed armored because if we had that they would need to make more than one armor set per raid.
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At blizzcon they explained that its not about theme but more about the way armors are designed and more specificly colored. They are using more shading and partical effects than other games that use dyes so the sets are pre-colored and fixed, adding armor dyes would make the sets look more generic because they would not be able use said apraoch, or atleast that the short explanation.