A concern about dyes and glamour plates

According to the patch notes, dye information is only kept if the glamour piece is part of a plate, meaning if you use an expensive dye (black/white) you would have to either take the loss and reset dye information if you feel like changing that plate, or permanently lose one of your plates just to keep that gear piece in a plate.

Why isn't this dye information stored in the dresser as well? This is extremely limiting. You basically can't ever take advantage of this system if you ever plan to use jet black or pure white.

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* Gear transformed into a glamour will retain any dyes that have been applied. However, any crests applied will be lost, as well as glamours applied from other gear.
* While crests cannot be applied to glamours in the dresser, dyes can be used at any time.

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I think this implies it will work the same as now. Either dye the individual piece or dye it once it's already a part of your outfit.

Its not an implication...its pretty much literal.

If you dye it a certain color...and turn it into a glamour - then it will remain as THAT color.

The trick is...better be happy with it. :)

Crests however....is beyond me...not that i care much about them at this point.

They should just get rid of the current dye system and make them all available like other MMOs with dye systems(in a lot of them you buy dye packs or get them as random loot and then you use the dye pack and it permanently unlocks those colours for future use on your gear).

Then they can start adding new colours and make them loot drops or quest rewards or whatever.

Yeah after some thought I put this request out ---> http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...06#post4550106

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Originally Posted by alimdia

According to the patch notes, dye information is only kept if the glamour piece is part of a plate, meaning if you use an expensive dye (black/white) you would have to either take the loss and reset dye information if you feel like changing that plate, or permanently lose one of your plates just to keep that gear piece in a plate.

Why isn't this dye information stored in the dresser as well? This is extremely limiting. You basically can't ever take advantage of this system if you ever plan to use jet black or pure white.

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How I understand is this, if say you dyed chest X into pure white then flush it down the glamour toilet, chest X will always be pure white when you set it up for glamour plate. From there you can dye it on the glamour plate again, which is pretty much what existing glamouring does. The problem occurs when say, you want to change the color of chest X (in the dresser) into jet black so all future glamour plate of chest X would be jet black. There is no way to go around it except to put a second copy of chest X dyed jet black into the dresser, which may or may not require you to dump the pure white chest X already inside the dresser earlier, this is where it is different from the existing system.

Sadly, I don't think there's anyway to work around this issue (requiring a second copy of chest X in order to change the color in the dresser) without making dyes a one-time unlock like Stoic mentioned. Then again, patch notes have previous cases of translation error, so I suppose the only way to find out how the system really works is to wait for the patch to go live.