Guild Wars 2

I bought Abyss dye expecting it to be really dark in hue. Yet when it is equipped it looks like a metallic grey. Why is it that it’s so light whilst looking at the character yet whilst looking at the character equipment window it basically looks how I imagine it should look?
I really just want to know if this was intentional because I’d much prefer if it was as dark as seen in the character equipment window (see attached file).

It changes in the open world because of the lighting and bloom settings in the environment… while the Preview window has a more neutral light setting causing the armor to lose most of it’s luster and shine.

If you disable Post Processing in Graphics then it should return to the darker color. Not 100% on this though.

I agree with you Brown Bear. It just doesn’t look any where near a black when on in most the areas. It just looks like a dark gray.

Abyss dye is not normal dye. It is not “black”. If you want deep dark black than buy black dye.
Abyss dye takes on the color hues of what you are standing around. Stand inside a volcanoe and you don’t look black, you look like molten magma, stand inside an area corrupted by the shatterer and you see purple/pink hues dance along the edges of your armor. This is exactly the way Celestial dye works.

Also, you are wearing metal armor, metal shines and lusters in direct light which causes colors to alter slightly in appearance. Take ancient bronze dye, on leather it looks close to a tan hide with a hint of gold in it, on cloth it looks the same only paler, on metal it is nearly a dark gold in color with black around the edges. Vastly different appearances.

If metal armor looked so flat black it would look rediculous, the way it shines and such now is perfect and closer to realistic. Metal armor (I have the set you show in abyss as well) reflects even the attacks of others, when I am standign in melee and a fire elementalist is droppign magma circles at my feet to hit the enemies around me, my armor catches the fire and changes around the edges to a magma hue. If I am fighting alongside a guardian my armor regularly shifts to blue hues and greys (due to the white skills they use) at the edges instead.

Runiir.6425:

Abyss dye is not normal dye. It is not “black”. If you want deep dark black than buy black dye.
Abyss dye takes on the color hues of what you are standing around. Stand inside a volcanoe and you don’t look black, you look like molten magma, stand inside an area corrupted by the shatterer and you see purple/pink hues dance along the edges of your armor. This is exactly the way Celestial dye works.

That certainly explains the difference in name. Too bad the actual dyes don’t do anything to convey this to players. :/

I agree, that Abyss and Celestial need some kind of disclaimer (or make them exotic in item quality color) on the description.

Midnight fire and midnight ice also change hues around others, though it is less noticable due to the red and blue hue already present.

On metal, I have noticed that all dyes labeled midnight can change in hue, but only fire and ice are noticable enough (and even then only on certain armor).

A lighting slider in the preview screen would be neat

But Runiir is spot on.