Able to dye the hall of novice armor

[LordLucavi]

The armor style is copied in some other dyable styles. Personally, I'm glad there's now an actual dark colored lowbie set instead of either a kaleidoscope of rainbow vomit or bright yellow/red/whatever. It's also distinctive the way it is now, and it speaks to the character of the novice that they actually went and did the HoN training instead of bypassing it and buying inferior equipment.

[Enkidoh]

The armor style is copied in some other dyable styles. Personally, I'm glad there's now an actual dark colored lowbie set instead of either a kaleidoscope of rainbow vomit or bright yellow/red/whatever. It's also distinctive the way it is now, and it speaks to the character of the novice that they actually went and did the HoN training instead of bypassing it and buying inferior equipment.

^This. Specifically, their models are all directly based on dyeable ilevel 70 and 90 PvP gear - the tank novice gear is a palette swap of the level 50 ilevel 70 Warwolf Fending set, and the healer/mage/melee novice set is a palette swap of the level 50 ilevel 90 Direwolf sets (the later which exists separate 'healing', 'casting', 'maiming' and 'striking' sets for offensive mages, light and heavy melee respectively), which is naturally based on the level 15 Acolyte's (mage) and Foestriker sets (melee) respectively. These sets all require participation in PvP to gain Wolf Marks to acquire from an npc at the Wolves' Den, and can all be dyed to whatever colour you wish.

So yeah, the Novice sets will not be made dyeable for this reason - their models already exist in dyeable versions as other gear sets (it should also go without saying too that the tank gear is also the equipment worn by Mylla, the Guildmistress of the GLA's Guild in Ul'dah, but that's another story. ).