Two/three dyes on one piece of gear

[Altena]

While I would absolutely love more flexibility with colour palettes, our glamour system isn't even robust enough to allow for more than one copy-- making all the wonderful AF gear borderline useless. Unfortunately, the devs seem to be prioritizing things like possibly Blitzball over changing that. So I doubt anything comes of it.

I sense a bit of sarcasm in there, and I did chuckle at the Blitzball comment.

If they can't design proper raids (not just embellished trials), or horizontal gear options over and above raid/tome gear, then I will bite on the more casual content.
At the end of the day, glamour is the true end-game of this game isn't it?

They stated in a interview long ago that the dye system we have was unplaced because some colors did not shade well under certain lighting and that the gear they created would still be identified by what they originally designed.

This excuse is simply a cop-out in all honesty. Just like many comments such as server stress, console limitations, etc etc. It's their way of saying "we don't want to invest the resources into doing xxx".

You can dye the body piece that I used as an example, a metallic colour if you really want, which looks completely eye-sore on a lot of cloth pieces, regardless of the lighting.
If this was their true reason for not adding multiple dyes, then they might as well start removing options for certain colours for certain pieces.

Off topic but... oh man oh man oh man, someone who agrees with me that Omega doesn't feel like a raid. I mentioned it in a FFXIV related Discord and got told "Well who cares about trash? Savage never had it anyway" - but yeah, Omega doesn't feel like a raid to me. Just a trial. Return to Ivalice will likely feel like a raid though. I always found the 24-man duties were nailed as raids go. Why can't the 8-man raids be the same? Why classify them as raids if they're just trials? Drives me up the nut...

Don't mean to derail the topic but I can't really blame SE for this entirely.
They tried to do it in BCoB, but a bunch of people complained that the trash was pointless, and that turn 3 was a waste of time. So the people that said that are partially to blame..

However something I can blame SE for, is that said trash was indeed trash, and had no use. Which is what most people complained about back then in the first place.
If they gave the trash in BCoB Turn 1 & 3 a purpose, then it wouldn't have been an issue.

Let this trash have a low drop rate for other aetherial gear (such as what you get in Diadem) at 10-iLvls lower than raid or tome gear or something.. That would be a huge step forward for this game in my eyes, to open up the potential for people to gear up multiple roles. Hell, this may even cause people that don't raid to want to actually try the first turn - even if it's just for the trash mobs.