Guild Wars 2

As a dye collector, I have a few things I would like to see in the game. I would really like the limited edition dyes to be made exotic, both for searching on the TP and for tracking on your hero panel. I also think there should be achievements for collecting dyes. There are achievements for minis, armor and weapons, why not dyes?

As a side note, I also think it would be awesome to introduce legendary dyes that follow the same pattern as the new generation of legendary weapons, and would maybe give a glow or particle effect.

Agreed with everything apart from the particle effects. Subtle glows, maybe, but particle effects would be a little far for my tastes… or computer to handle. XD

I think some dyes need to have patterns with a couple of colors or subtly transition from one to the other. Like a dye could sift through all the electro or Glint colors.

I agree with all of this, but if they do put in legendary dyes, maybe they should be unlocked along with the legendary armor piece they are linked to and allow you to move the effect to another skin if you dislike the loot of the legendary armor piece. (or simply throw it on an outfit)

Agree on exotic dye idea.

And I still wait for that moment we get official “two-tone” dyes. Some dyes do it on SOME heavy pieces but I’d like one that does it on everything.

So depending on your camera angle and the way the lighting strikes the armor piece it would be 1 color with sheen of a completely different color family. For those who don’t know what two-tone is. xD

I 100% agree with your first paragraph. Can’t say I’m sold on legendary dyes though.

I’d rather not have dye achieves.

I mean, on one hand, sure. It’d fit with other stuff and give dye collectors a little something extra.

But on the other hand, it would drive dye prices up by way of making achievement hunters buy up tons of dyes, and make it harder for people who just want to customize their look with colors they want to do so. Dyes are already significantly more expensive then they used to be with the changes to Unidentified Dye drops, I’d rather not add more factors that would drive the prices further out of reach of newbies.

The exclusive dyes becoming exotic would be fine, though not really necessary since on the TP you can just sort by price (95% of the exclusive dyes are more expensive than normal ones) and for searching for the exclusives in the hero panel you can just look at the bottom of the list, since all the exclusives come after the original dyes.

I am 100% opposed to legendary dyes with particle effects. Would create way too much visual clutter. Some of the current armors (Radiant >.<) are bad enough. MAYBE they could have stuff with subtle glows or different textures along the lines of the Zodiac armor / Luminscent armor, but that’s about as far as I’d ever want them to go with dyes. And even then, if they did that then those armor sets would be less special, so I’m not sure that’d ever happen either.