Guild Wars 2

Could any female sylvari post some screenshots of T1 armor with midnight ice and/or abyss here if you have the dye/armor (with the shader on high)? The preview of this armor does not even remotely match the color of my armor in the game. The shader on high brightens up the color significantly and the preview has the shader on low. So there is no way for me to truly preview the armor unless I find someone with the dye and armor.

I’m trying to get my armor to match my hair which is midnight ice, but the T1 armor is very shiny, so I worry midnight ice might not be dark enough.

Thanks.

Edit: It’s light T1 I’m interested in.

T1 what? light? medium? heavy?

As RainbowSyrup asked… you have to state if it is light, medium or heavy. There are not only 3 tiers of cultural armor, it is also different armor classes.

I don’t have midnight ice or abyss either way though, I have midnight blue and midnight sky however.

Opps… I want to see light T1 with midnight ice and/or abyss.

Abyss – [&AgGETwAA]
Midnight Ice – [&AgEmUAAA]

Go to the Cultural Gear vendor and preview the gear you want, paste the above codes into the chatbox in-game, right-click preview for those, and you’ll get an idea.

This is my sylvari in T1 light armor with midnight Ice dye.
She is also white skinned but I wanted to see what she’d look like with black skin in the body make over thing, which has made it a bit difficult to see that armor colours properly, but as you can plainly see…. it’s prety black. XD

Just a note, if you are planning on getting T2 and dying that with midnight ice, the t2 light armor has some kind of colour effects in it so that when you dye it, 2 or 3 different colours come out so it isn’t just a flat colour. This means that Midnight ice comes out quite green on T2, but really black, nblacker than abyss on T1.

@ Electro That isn’t the problem. I already know how to do that. The problem is colors look very different on the T1 light armor in the game. Every dye I get is always brighter.

@ Half Tooth Is that a preview window? My preview windows aren’t grey. Also previews do not help me, sorry.

I’ll post a screen of my armor and the preview of that armor to try and convey my problem. I should have posted this originally. I have midnight violet and midnight teal in the picture. If the two dyes were under a gold or two, I would just buy and find out.

Edit: Adding another screenshot. This one better illustrates the problem then the first one. Depending on the environment it gets really bright and shiny. Dyes are midnight blue and midnight teal.

I am having this problem with t1 gear myself, the gear is shinier than in the preview somehow.

Its because the preview window has no lightning effects whatsoever, its just the plain model viewed at its basic.

In the world you’re always going to have more dynamic lighting making things look lighter (or darker depending on the lighting itself), changing hues, ect.

My t1 armor does that same ‘shiny’ thing, unless I turn down my graphics settings to make everything flatter. Then it turns out closer to the color I was going for. So, maybe your settings are just too high for the dark colors to show properly.

aikiakane.1058:

My t1 armor does that same ‘shiny’ thing, unless I turn down my graphics settings to make everything flatter. Then it turns out closer to the color I was going for. So, maybe your settings are just too high for the dark colors to show properly.

I know I can change my settings. Both medium and high shader options make it too shiny. It only looks good on low. Other people are going to see that shine and how bad it looks on me…. Changing settings on my end, will not help that part.

I’m vain, I know… I’m also going to be more picky about how things look because my major was in graphic design. So flaws like that stand out more so to me.

Anyway I finally just got midnight ice. It looks OK. It looks bad in spots, and great in other spots. The sylvari T1 light is my favorite armor in every aspect except for the over the top glossy effect. ::sigh::

mine tier 1 i like green and pink :P

Mine image was done in the character re-creation kit thing. I have abyss dye unlocked, and celestial. My sylvari’s skin is white and usually I run around with celestial dye on. I wanted to know what she’d look like if she were entirely black so I dyed her armor with abyss then went into the character redesign kit and changed her skin ot black, that is when I took the screenshot.

Also I with that armor, T1 armor it is incredibly shiny, it almost doesn’t natter what colour you dye it since it relfects everything. T2 armor has a different problem entirely, it seems to invent colours that are different from the one you put in. In some cases it the effect is quite pleasent and in others it’s really annoying. T2 is less shiny however.

For T1, Midnight ice is far a far darker colour but it doesn;t matter what colour you put on that armor as the material is so reflective.