Guild Wars 2

Im fairly new to the forums and im wondering if anyone can help me name the dyes the tier 2 cultural weaponsmith at the black citadel wears? Ive attached a pic if it helps

Iv been wondering this also. I really like the color combo. From looking around I believe the legs are midnight red. The armor secondary color may be midnight rust. But I’m not sure about the main color. I thought it was black but in certain lighting it looks like it has a sort of green tint too it. FYI it’s the same npc for tier 3 cultural armor. Hopefully someone else can chime in on this.

Yeah, I think the chest and back could be caramel actually from personal trial and error but I might be wrong! Probably going to have to start saving for the dyes once I’ve bought all the armor as it gets quite costly!

It may be midnight olive. I know that the cloth lookin soldier npcs with the grey blue stuff (like the one in far back of that screenie) have gunmetal as the main dye. you can preview dyes on the list till it looks right before buying the dye (just right click the dyes as you go through em in the trading post and preview.)

I can definitely say that the cloth is midnight red having just tried it out for myself! now I need to trace the other two, having previewed i dont think its midnight rust, one could be midnight olive, but still no idea as to what the brighter orange like colour is

If they’re using a lot of ‘midnight’ colours there’s also a ‘fire’ and ‘gold’ iirc. I’ve been meaning to get a new skin for part of my warrior’s PTV set so I might test it out later, that character has a lot of dyes on it.

Okay well I don’t think it’s midnight anything because that part of the armour really darkens stuff. ‘Copper’ and ‘hazel’ looked pretty close, but on my character the armour seems a bit shinier somehow, so idk.

edit: on second thought those are too saturated.

edit2: well this is ebony + pottery, which looked pretty close.

I tried tkittenony and pottery combination and it was pretty close. I think steel could be the darker colour used. When I tried pottery it seemed a bit lighter than the npc’s. I could be wrong, but I never thought the dyes used would be starter dyes! :L

The trouble is when you get close enough it’s hard to say for sure, because even the lighting can throw it off. I’d look at my armour from the top with theirs in the side like the screenshot, and then rotate it to look at both from the side, but I could already see that the lights weren’t quite the same and it was making it harder to tell. Might need to just clip into them! :|

I don’t remember if I tried steel or not, but iirc it does have the brownish tint like ebony (but lighter I think) so it might be that. As for the orange-ish colour, I’m not convinced it’s pottery, but something along those lines does seem likely. That particular bit of metal seems to make dyes darker and perhaps also more saturated. I’m not really sure how or why that works, but throwing in anything which looked right in the palette or on other armour ended up waaay more intense than I expected, and as for ‘midnight’ anything – ‘tinted black’ comes to mind.

Yeah, I guess the lighting does have a big impact on the way the colours come out I’ve noticed. I tried comparing next to the armor smith npc who has identical colours and it does look like steel is the darker colour. Still previewing similar colours to pottery but that’s been the closest I’ve had If I’m honest. As for the cloth colours, I haven’t found a better match than midnight red /:

Hm… I tried steel but it looks way too light to me for the background. Ebony even looks a bit light, although cocoa actually seemed nearer but not quite there. I was up to midnight yew and adobe but it was getting dark lol. There’s a few colours similar to pottery like old penny and adobe, but I’m not sure they’re any closer. For instance here is adobe/midnight yew and while the latter looks reasonable (in the dark anyway) adobe is a bit lighter (it’s also lighter than pottery).

Ive been trying midnight yew and that does look pretty similar in some lights, im quite satisfied with the midnight yew and pottery colors so far but i dont have all the armor pieces I want to test the colours properly yet. Old penny seemed a bit bright, Im finding it hard to find a colour that fits as well as pottery does at the moment!