Guild Wars 2

Please?

I really find the changes to Sylvari armour this patch – reverting them or otherwise – disgusting.

When I logged in back when they were first changed up I was ecstatic. My Sylvari looked excellent, colours didn’t look too glaring on certain tiers (where before some of the colours looked odd or too reflective).

And now I log in after the Fractured patch and my Sylvari elementalist is ugly as kitten . I’m actually really angry that she’s decked out in full cultural, which I bought after the initial change because suddenly the armours looked excellent, and now she looks utterly crap. The T3 top in particular looks spectacularly disgusting, and the T1 leggings lost the really nice transitioning between some of the colours and they’re reflecting really ugly colours.

(For the record, T1 leggings on female if dyed with Midnight Ice, look like they’re reflecting a really ugly charcoal-green sort of colour. It’s nasty.)

For reference: here is the before shot:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/8d4d172855ebad29ee9dc399c0fe9abb/tumblr_mwwey1wpar1rzkxc0o1_1280.jpg

The T3 chest has this lovely mix between the Sky (main), Midnight Ice (secondary slot) and Celestial (tertiary slot) and all three colours look good without clashing. The black accent on the leaves is really nice too and breaks up the blue. The T1 legs have a lovely gradient between the Midnight Ice (main), Celestial (secondary slot) and Sky (tertiary slot). They don’t look harsh and the Midnight Ice actually looks like a deep shade of purple/blue.

Here is the after shot:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/256b5bfdf66470c64bc0c16e8a7943fc/tumblr_mwwey1wpar1rzkxc0o3_r1_1280.jpg

I can’t even begin to talk about how ugly these changes are, JFC. The top just looks terrible, there’s not any distinction between colours any more, the gradients are gone and replaced with solid “HI I’M THIS COLOUR” textures that don’t match. Just. Ugh. And do you see what I mean about the T1 Midnight Ice dye suddenly looking like this disgusting shade of super dark GREEN?

Please shoot whoever thought this would be a clever change.

Part of the issue is the colours your using, dark near black is used to provide texture on the sylvari armors, as is the sylvari skin colour, while your using it as a colour for the outfit which results in colour blockiness since the texturing and the sylvari skin colour are also dark.

Another user posted this in another thread

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/121568/dyes_b4andafter.jpg

you can see the t3 chest original had various gradients going on and then was made colour blocky (middle picture, granted more vibrant but texture loss) which resulted in a significant detail loss in the lower half of the outfit (noticed the leaf on the the toons right leg, your left) how it’s missing most of it’s detail.

Personally I prefer the texturing than without the texturing and at present it seems to be a technical limitation of one or the other.