Guild Wars 2

Greetings GW2 community! o/

I don’t know if this has been spoken of before, but what do you think of the idea of dyeable weapons?
I’ve had a lengthy discussion with a few guild members about this and apart from “ruining” the base dye that the devs and art team envisioned I don’t see any other major problems.

Well…on the other hand, that would make different ascended weapon colors obsolete and Grenth knows what would happen to that part of the game. :/

I didn’t go into too much detail. Nevertheles, what do you think of this general idea?

It has been discussed before,

Unfortunately they can’t implement it now, many sets of weapons rely on colour difference to distinguish them as you mentioned.
The Mystic/inquest set , The ascended weapons , The SAB weapons, The dark shield of the moon/shield of the moon, All the basic crafted weapons.

Conski Deshan.2057:

It has been discussed before,

Unfortunately they can’t implement it now, many sets of weapons rely on colour difference to distinguish them as you mentioned.
The Mystic/inquest set , The ascended weapons , The SAB weapons, The dark shield of the moon/shield of the moon, All the basic crafted weapons.

Yes indeed, you’re right. The issues you mentioned here are enough of a reason why this hasn’t happened to this day.

It may be possible however that special new weapons designed to be dyed could be added, which would be something you could suggest.

I’d be up for that Conski

In all honesty I would love to see many Guildwars 1 dyable weapon skins return to Gw2

I’d be more than happy with that

Conski Deshan.2057:

It has been discussed before,

Unfortunately they can’t implement it now, many sets of weapons rely on colour difference to distinguish them as you mentioned.
The Mystic/inquest set , The ascended weapons , The SAB weapons, The dark shield of the moon/shield of the moon, All the basic crafted weapons.

It’s never too late, and there’s no excuses for not being able to implement dyeable weapons. This is Guild Wars 2. They had it in GW1. Surely the upgraded version of the game could have this too.

Also, there aren’t that many weapons that are color-specific &/or tied to an achievement (like the ones you mention), but for those, anet could simply keep those as it is – tied to whatever content rewards those coloured weapons. Problem solved.

Conski Deshan.2057:

It has been discussed before,

Unfortunately they can’t implement it now, many sets of weapons rely on colour difference to distinguish them as you mentioned.
The Mystic/inquest set , The ascended weapons , The SAB weapons, The dark shield of the moon/shield of the moon, All the basic crafted weapons.

Flawed arguement here. You could change the skin at the start of the game. Therefore there is no reason as to why you should not be able to dye weapons. Color coding of stats doesnt work because of transmutation.

Also the shield of the moon and dark moon shield look different…

Conski Deshan.2057:

It has been discussed before,

Unfortunately they can’t implement it now, many sets of weapons rely on colour difference to distinguish them as you mentioned.
The Mystic/inquest set , The ascended weapons , The SAB weapons, The dark shield of the moon/shield of the moon, All the basic crafted weapons.

Those weapons could have the important colors undyeable. The mystic/inquest is more the static particle effect than a weapon color that differentiates them. Particle effects like would not be dyeable anyway, just like armor. Ascended weapons can keep their main color undyeable but allow dying of the accent color. SAB weapons could have the handle and grip colors dyeable but the ethereal blades/gems left undyeable.

Considering a large part of the game and their cash shop revolve around appearance having to base your outfit colors around the weapon skin you like/use or base your weapon choice around the armor skins/color schemes you like is very limiting.