Guild Wars 2

I was thinking it would be cool if guild leaders / officers had the option to purchase a “Dye License” for “guild armor colors”.

The idea is that someone could pay a certain fee for different levels of dye rarities, such as common, uncommon, rare, etc. and players who access their list of dyes to color their armor will have the “Guild Colors” tab that allows them to color their armor with the colors the guild has purchased. If someone leaves the guild, their “Guild Colors” tab disappears until they join a new one.

Now obviously there’s the concern of the multiple guilds permitted situation, so in that case I would say if you apply a guild armor color and switch guilds, your armor’s dye will change to the dye that other guild uses.

The “Dye License” for rare dyes would be, say, maybe 50G (and the guild can donate to save up for such a price), then other numbers for other rarities. As for unlocking the “Guild Upgrade”, it could be like getting the Armor or Weapon upgrade and still requiring the purchase of the license after you obtain the upgrade.

Not a flawless idea, of course. I just thought it might be a good idea for those guilds who have a “uniform requirement”.

So you’d have a dye color unlocked called, say, “Guild Dye 1-4”, and then you can place it where you want, and, in accordance to which Guild Dye color it is, you’ll get that color? I can see that, but I would also think that to do this, you’d need to save a dye itself to use as a Guild Dye and not simply have it unlocked for yourself.

Exactly, that’s why it’d require more money. Perhaps you could purchase a dye for yourself, then bring it to the “Dye License Vendor” and pay a charge based on the rarity of the dye to have the dye available for all guild members. So you could maybe say “I’d like to set a color for Slot One.” And there would be up to four different slots. If you choose a color, you could go back later and say, “I’d like to change the color for Slot One.”

Naturally all of these things would require some kind of fee, but having the option to unlock “guild dyes” so people can have the same armor + colors when roaming around in PvE, WvW, etc.

The reason why I included 4 Guild Dyes is because there are up to 4 different dye slots, and most guilds have 2+ colors for Primary/Secondary, but depending on the armor, you might want the secondary color to be put onto the 3rd or 4th dye slot, sometimes even the 1st dye slot.

It could just as easily be 2 colors.

I think, possibly, it should be 3 colors and the same colors used in the Guild Banner.

Yeah it could just be 2 – 3 guild colors, but yes there is armor that has up to 4 color slots and therefore I’d see it as a good decision to give up to 4 color choices for Guild Armor Dye.

While there are people who stick to only 2 – 3 dyes, some people have all kinds of colors on their armor (such as Sylvari players), so having 4 options would be useful for those reasons.

I like this idea, but I believe that it should, similar to other Guild Items, be purchased by the player and then reflect the current represented guild (if no guild is represented, it will be Default Dye for the item).
The guild, of course, would have to research it. Once researched, they can set it similar to setting guild emblem (or, again, it could be the same as the guild emblem, but then you’d need a way of adding dyes to the guild emblem).