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

Dulfy has captured an answer via interview here:

Source: http://dulfy.net/2013/05/01/swtor-pa...-with-bioware/

A couple of comments to add here:

1) there is a difference in mechanics between color match and dyes. How so? Look above.... Handmaiden set is considered Lore and not dyable... yet I have successfully used color matching with different Handmaiden pieces to good effect with many different chest pieces in game.

2) like it or not, they have decided what is classified as Lore equipment and that it is non-dyable. Of course this could change at some point in the future.

I'm very disappointed that the 'lore' gear can't be dyed. It makes no sense to me. I was looking forward to making the Last Handmaiden robes black. I don't wear those robes to be the lore character, I wear them because they're a nice looking piece of armor.

And that some point in the future Needs to happen.



Updated the original post.

I bet those will go to CE Vendor. It's Bioware's plan to make the community hate on CE users who asked for exclusive items

I am expecting White and Blue/Black and Red to be C.E. only.

bah, **** restrictions. "QQ teh lore teh lore QQ" ****... as if having 45702345780245 different revans and bastilas running around didn't do that already.

Yeah, and we can already make them pink if your wearing the dancer top. Or even white and orange using the republic containment officer armor, or even banana yellow with the imperial one.

Hopefully too many people didn't jump out their window overreacting about the dye kits being used on Cartel Market gear. It was pretty obvious that Dulfy's original statement about not being able to dye gear under level 15 did not apply to Cartel Market gear (other than Lore sets). Now, that is confirmed.

Okay, so you don't need to be able to dye the other pieces, because you can just unify to chest piece, as you mentioned. So, there's no need to die anything on the Lore sets other than the chestpiece. Currently, you can't change the color of the chestpiece....so there's no change there. I'm sure eventually they'll change this after enough people whine about it. It didn't take them long to ditch lore in terms of color crystals and having Sith Jedi....the lore will go out the window soon enough. Until, it's not such a major issue that it should ruin anyone's life.

It's not, you're right, but it is totally ridiculous.

What purpose does not letting us dye lore items have other than simply being a restriction?

Their customers are already up in arms about the next patch essentially being content that we have to pay more to use, and they're looking to restrict more stuff.

They're showing us they are as developers; "we take feedback seriously".......yeah, right, like they couldn't have guessed we'd want to dye lore items....

Whatever happened to their old slogan from a patch last year, "Look Unique!"

The only lore item that should remain uncolorable is the Mask of Nihilus. Because I mean, c'mon, that's totally only his mask. Even Revan's can be colored to look different, but the famous skull mask would look ridiculous in blue or purple.