Guild Wars 2

I’m a fan of the design of the Nightmare Weapons. As someone who just leveled a warrior to 80 that looks, at the moment, like a Nightmare Court type of character, it’s only natural that I lean toward the plant-type weapons. Unfortunately, the options here are rather limited. While I understand that the basic skin (verdant) and the Tier 3 cultural weapon (warden) have a certain look and color, why does the Nightmare Court weaponry have to be magenta/hot pink?

Since beta, I’ve glanced at these weapons, thought about maybe roughing it out, but decided against it. They just clash with a lot of stuff, and I don’t think they need to. I decided to mess around with a few screenshots of them, and remove the magenta. I think they turned out pretty well. I’m sure not everyone will agree, but I think they look much more like what they’re supposed to: twisted, natural weaponry.

Edit: Seems like it takes a while for the attachments to show up. In any event, here are just three of them. I think the shield came out a bit odd, but otherwise I would say they’re an improvement over the current look of the models. They showcase more of the actual texture than the glowing magenta, which I think is a bit gaudy. I’m sure the concept art for these looked incredible, but in game they just don’t have the same impact. Not when most armor looks different, most lighting doesn’t play well with the differences in shades, etc.

oh my, these look much better than I expected.
Since my character is a sylvarian, I always wanted dark, plantlike weapons but since there only were a PURPLE kind of nasty plantweapons, I went for the cultural ones. But I tell you, if they looked like this I would sure use nightmare weapons instead

They are the only reasonable option for pinkish weapons in game apart from the few very expensive mystic weapons (Like Whisperblade). So no they shouldn’t be changed in colour if anything I would love to see more and better options using shades of pink/purple as there are already a lot of weapons that look natural.

That said the images you made do look nice The karma sylvari weapons aren’t pink though and look really cool if you want a more serious look.

I kinda like the glowy magenta bit,it seems to add to the sort of corrupted,magical theme of the Nightmare Court and makes it look less like some plants just grew around a sword and more like some evil,dark magic is attached to the weapons.

Those color shifts you made look really nice though,maybe they could a second set of identical nightmare weapons that are bought the same,have the same stats,etc,but just look like that instead of the glowy purple bits.Being able to choose whether you want glowy or not is the best option in this case.

Making weapons dyeable has been suggested before and I think that would be the preferred outcome. If they removed the pink now it would cause outcry amongst those who like the current style and already have them or are working towards them.

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Making weapons dyeable has been suggested before and I think that would be the preferred outcome. If they removed the pink now it would cause outcry amongst those who like the current style and already have them or are working towards them.

Well, I didn’t want to make this another “please add weapon dyes” post. I’m sure ArenaNet has seen many of those. I just wanted to illustrate how the alternate color set might look better for these weapons in particular. Personally, I would love it if they added even a limited number of color dyes (three or so for each skin.)

OH MY GOODNESS, YES… What is up with that HIDEOUS purple??? +1 +1 +1

I actually came on here to suggest some more Sylvari themed weapons but the nightmare weapons sans the Magenta coloration would fix that totally…

The color alone is the only reason why i won’t get it, despite the weapon model itself being kitten…