Color effect the stats of robes now?

[Jinko]

That is what Class specific gear is for. To define the aesthetic of a Job you make a set that can only be obtained by that job. That's why XI has Artifact Armour. That's why every other MMO has class quest armour. Coloring is a way for players to express themselves within the restrictions of the already heavy guidelines places on gear. A Mage is defined by wearing a Robe. In FF a black mage is defined by a Point hat and a White Mage is defined by a Flared clothing. Color has not determined the role of a Class in any game since video games stopped being made of Sprites.

This was simply a half-assed way to make it look like there was more gear variety, but all it does is gimp and put off players.

OK you are generalising here, WoW for example doesn't have colour dyed gear either, but it does have hundred or thousands of gear types, styles and choices.

At this stage its too early to know what SE have planned, just because you want something don't get up on your high horse and start proclaiming that you deserve it because you lead yourself to think that.

This forum community has some of those worst self entitled people around, I bet Yoshi-p sighs and rolls his eyes everytime he reads these forums.