Gaius Armour and the Mobile Version.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Where is this "16 dye channel" information coming from?
Please provide relevant evidence before making claims. (I heard from some guy that heard from another guy is not evidence)

Its not 16 dye channels on vanilla gear, its 16 individual materials per piece of gear and each has the ability to be dye enabled.

Even then, the work to do so would not be as simple as SE simply adding dyability to those individual materials, unlike what people keep claiming. As they would need to adjust the UI for it, set the individual dye values per material, etc. and considering how lackluster they second dye slot has been handled so far... I don't think anyone would be happy with their choices in that regard. Furthermore, no one can show you proof of this. If you aren't willing to do research for yourself then you simply have to accept that this is a very old game and many players know the ins and outs of how it works, about as well as the dev team at times. It is genuinely a case of iykyk.

As for the mobile game, it was demonstrated on a Chinese stream a couple days ago. The mobile game has 16 dye channels, which is technically possible in the main game; with a whole heck of a lot of work, due to how we know materials work. Which even setting aside the obvious beating around the bush people are doing to avoid ToS topics, we were shown how materials work and how dye functions in the fanfest dev panels leading up to 7.0's release.

Its not a "he said she said" situation, its a case of you being dismissive. Which is by nature argumentative and combative. Regardless of your declared intent.

Either way, since you asked for proof, here is the screenshots for mobile demonstrating the 16 dye slots: