Guild Wars 2

Just got my Sylvari T2 armour and not really liking any colour combos I’ve tried. It seems this armour works best with just one colour. Could people post screens of their T2 armour and the dyes you’ve used?

Mine is below…I’m still not happy with it.

Heya,

I use medium and my character is male so i realy wouldn’t know how any thing looks on that set but….. have you tried something like white? Since white is quit nice in overall, white with ice blue or something. You should try that out if you already didnt.

Greets,

Gerke

I tried to dye mine like a flower Salmon for the petal, Sprout and Green for the leaves, and Camel for the vines on her feet.

A good rule to go by is to match armor colours with your hair, skin tone and another obvious piece. Every skin tone and hair colour has a matching dye in this game so you can match perfectly.

To make your Sylvari look good, you’ll want to make use of dark and light shades. Some dyes may be nearly identical but may have deeper shades. For example, the colour on my gloves are not the frost colour. They are blue tint, which is almost exactly the same, but it has darker blacks that accentuate better than frost which has greyer blacks.

I uploaded a picture of my Sylvari. His name is Zefrost.

His skin tone is Frost, his hair is Midnight Ice and his wraith mask head piece is an unchangable green colour. To match my armor, I did small areas in Midnight Ice (darkest black there is and it matches my hair), the majority of my armor is Frost by default since that’s my skin colour and I made the legs Frost to match, and I did certain areas green to match my mask.

I also made my eyes as large as I could without looking dumb and kept them as the only purely white item on my character because I wanted the eyes to be noticable.

One last thing I did was make the glow of my Sylvari a bright green and made his skin pattern the darkest blue there is. This dark blue pattern is the exact same blue that the Midnight Ice dye is on areas where it isn’t black. Such as on the wings – they are black as well as blue from the Midnight Ice dye.

Too often I see people in full celestial or full pink or full purple etc. Sylvari’s have the most customization so if you make proper use of artistic laws… people will really notice you.

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Since that deep red colour is your strongest colour, you should use the matching dye on areas such as I used Midnight Ice for dark areas on mine. Evening Red or Midnight Red might be a good colour.

You can then also use different shades of red that are dark pink/light red for other areas of your armor. I’m not sure what skin tone you used but you could use that colour of dye as well for certain areas.

You’ll have to experiment for the perfect colours that match up to your appearance but a good way without wasting money is:

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Just to mention it:
You can preview dyes on your current armor by

going to http://www.gw2spidy.com
searching for the dye you want (e.g. http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/20356)
click “link ingame”
paste the database code into the chat
right-click it and preview

I like to combine this with the wiki color palette (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dye#Colors), there you can browse the material/hue/rarity palettes available ingame, sometimes the code is even there.

i like all yellow, it glow nice

I grabbed the T2 light armor a couple days ago (well, the chest and legs at least, I kept my T1 boots and gloves). After expirimenting with it a bit, I came to a similar conclusion as you did, that its better to use similar colors for this particular armor due to the way the colors mix. Not nessicarily the exact same color, but different shades / tones of the same basic color (different shades of green, different shades of orange, ect). Similar colors keep it looking more consistent while at the same time giving some depth to it, rather than choosing the exact same color where you lose that and just have 1 constant color.

Here’s my Sylvari. I’m using Grape / Lavender / Sunset for the T2 chest and leggings.

There’re plenty of good-looking dye combinations. You just have to play around a bit Here are a few I came up with quickly. Let me know if you like any of them.