Stone Armor and the last update

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I'm just guessing you didn't do any searching of the forums for the developers comments on why Granite wasn't colored. The short version is, Granite is treated as a separately loaded costume, like the special temporary costumes from Halloween Trick-Or-Treating, or the special temporary costumes you can get in game, such as the Arachnos Costume while doing the Faultline arc.

Since Granite is not exposed to the player as part of the normal costume options, but as a set-piece, it brings several problems to coloring. You can see some of these problems by rolling an Illusionist and popping up Phantom Army. Yes, you do have some color control over Phantom Army, but... large tracks of the Phantom Army spawns can only be one color, and you lose the transparent effect, and the powers they use seem to be untouched. The developers also showed off, I believe at Hero-Con, using the current coloring system to color MasterMind pets... and MasterMind pets were colored exactly like Phantom Army Pets. Huge splashes of single color and complete loss of texture.

Yes, color control will (probably) eventually be made available for Granite and MasterMind pets. However, that color control requires under-the-hood-engine-work in order to EXPOSE, which means make the color controls available, to the player. That color control will also require under-the-hood-engine-work in order to modify the USER INTERFACE, which means the parts of the screen you actually can click on, so that you can actually choose colors and color placement.

So no, it's not going to happen anytime soon, and no, it wasn't an oversight on the part of the developers. And yes, they were pretty clear about why several sets didn't have have color customization. You can Check out the Dev Digest and see what the rednames have to say on the subject: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/track...pe=&&language=

Also, BAB posted a while back about this. So there may be some hope for more customizable effects on this power in the semi-near future.

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I suspect not until some point after Going Rogue comes out...

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

If Granite changes, it will be a complete change. Either it stay as it is, or Granite will become like the other armors visually (an encasement instead of replacing you with ROCKSUIT). Brawler has said it cannot be both.
As Stone Armor is an existing part of the game, any change to Granite will be free content.