Armor Dye Restrictions, Please let it work for SOME Lore sets.

I just want full body modification. I want tattoos on my body not just my face. It looks really dumb to have it on your face only! Please give us full body Mods including Tattoos, scars, and piercing... ok piercing may be a little to much. How about cool looking enhancements like Anakin's gold prosthetic arm! or some simple wires and plugs maybe an optic thing that is coming out of the side of your head. One things for sure FULL BODY TATTOOS!!

Lets hope. Restricting replica lore items from color mods kills 1/2 of the market.

Glad I wasn't the one for once to say so. Without our feedback we would have Jedi Wizards, and ketchup with mustard costumes...

But "Unify Colors" doesn't?

Another perfect example on why it shouldnt be restricted.

I must admit that I don't really understand the point of restricting dying lore sets... It doesn't really make much sense to me. Maybe it's just me, but the lore gear just looks like the gear that a certain character wore, it's not supposed to turn your character into that character. I mean, if a player equips the Jolee Bindo gear their character doesn't suddenly become Jolee Bindo, they're just dressed in an outfit that looks like the one Jolee Bindo wore. It's the same with the Revan gear-- your character does not become Revan when that outfit is equipped-- and all of the other lore gear. So, because the gear isn't turning your character into that character, why not allow the gear to be dyed?

And I wouldn't even bring up the "breaking lore" thing. The lore is already broken-- players should not be running around wearing Revan's armor or Jolee Bindo's tunic. It's like a player in Star Wars Galaxies running around in Darth Vader's armor, it just doesn't make sense and breaks the lore. But there you have it, SWTOR has these outfits, so the lore is already broken.

As for most of the cartel armor being restricted from dye... Honestly, it doesn't surprise me. This was done, no doubt, so Bioware could release recolors of the cartel armor and sell them, as they've been doing since the launch of the cartel market. Who's going to pay real money for a purple-colored Spymaster's Chestguard when they can dye one for free?
Do I like it? No, I think all moddable armor should be able to be dyed... But no, it doesn't surprise me.

What he said.

what he said about what he said.

If you have played with unify color much with respect to lore pieces.. it's almost non-functional IMO, and when it does show any matching... the results are strange.

To me the larger question is do they really mean it when they said gear under level 15 is excluded... and did that mean to include Cartel adaptive gear across the board... or did they mean to refer to world drop gear level 15 and lower. I can't tell as they were a bit vague about it. Anthing crafters can make should be dyeable IMO, though there is not much under level 15 that is crafted anymore.

There are some nice pieces of gear in the current cartel packs that would be great if they can be dyed. Some are selling really cheap on the GTN because they are not desired in their current color. So I am stock piling some and will check if they can be dyed when the patch goes live. If so... big score. If not.. nothing much lost in the way of credits spent on speculation.

I wonder if the restrictions are more based on reality and less on design intent.

If I were to guess how this system works, it probably applies a new texture to the armor. Since armors below level 15, grey and green armor are rarely if ever used to produce other pieces of armor, and most of the retextures we see seem to be blue, purple and the like, perhaps this restriction is a way to reduce the work needed to implement the feature.

In other words, the system works for those pieces of armor that already have the alternate textures in game.

I might be wrong here of course. Just speculating.