Guild Wars 2

This has bothered me since I made the character. Does anyone else get this weird problem?

Is it the hair that’s too sensitive to lighting, or the beard that ignores it altogether? Whatever the case, it makes blond norn men look kind of silly. Would be great if it could be fixed, and one (beard or hair) could conform to the other.

I have a problem with my human guardian, he has blonde hair and facial hair, but his eyebrows are dark black. and the eyebrows are big and bushy so it is very noticeable and it annoys me.

Serezenith, it doesn’t occur on all blond shades, iirc. It also depends on the hair/beard combination: the more “solid” beards are closer to the hair, while the “non-solid” (like the one with three braids) always become lighter.
It’s interesting that this only happens on blond shades and not black, brown or red (this is why I chose Campfire instead of Blond for my Norn).

That’s interesting, Mikhail.

My problem is that finding out which shades and which hair/beard styles don’t cause this weird mix-up is a guessing game, and an expensive one at that.

In these images, I’m using a Total Makeover Kit to compare the character’s current appearance under the effects of in-game lighting to the way the preview assumes he’s gonna look with the same appearance, but even when I toggle lighting on and off, it doesn’t take his too-dark hair into any account whatsoever.

http://i.imgur.com/hozYECU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gK8vAtX.jpg

Yepp, it’s weird like that. When I first noticed this, I quickly recreated mine (only level 2 anyway), but it is pretty irritating, especially since it creates a discordance in ANet’s quest for homogenising hair and beard (while, oddly, leaving the eyebrows alone).
It is well known that, IRL, hair and beard usually don’t match (though they tend to match more if you’re dark haired), but it’s just sloppy work when it only occurs on some shades and on some hair and beard combos.