Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, can anyone help me identify if the shinier Sorrow’s Embrace armor is from a dye or is that just photoshop? If its a dye, may i know what is that dye? Thanks.

Gun metal perhaps ?

I know that wielding the legendary hammer Juggernaut gives your character a metal skin, but it doesn’t seem like he’s wielding a 2 handed weapon at all….maybe another legendary, no idea :/

Groovy.6749:

I know that wielding the legendary hammer Juggernaut gives your character a metal skin, but it doesn’t seem like he’s wielding a 2 handed weapon at all….maybe another legendary, no idea :/

The metal skin from juggernaut looks like this instead.

Some dyes are coded as having metallic or leather texture. If the armor is also coded as metallic, you’ll get reflection like that.

What’s cool is some light armor has parts that are also metallic and will shiny if you dye it appropriately.

mulch.2586:

Some dyes are coded as having metallic or leather texture. If the armor is also coded as metallic, you’ll get reflection like that.

What’s cool is some light armor has parts that are also metallic and will shiny if you dye it appropriately.

I have another image of Sorrow’s Embrace armor which looks so horrible compared to the shiny one. Only the first photo stands out.

Hope someone knows what the dye used in it.

Tou.3078:

mulch.2586:

Some dyes are coded as having metallic or leather texture. If the armor is also coded as metallic, you’ll get reflection like that.

What’s cool is some light armor has parts that are also metallic and will shiny if you dye it appropriately.

I have another image of Sorrow’s Embrace armor which looks so horrible compared to the shiny one. Only the first photo stands out.

The second one is in armor preview, so yes, it looks horrible.

mulch.2586:

Some dyes are coded as having metallic or leather texture. If the armor is also coded as metallic, you’ll get reflection like that.

What’s cool is some light armor has parts that are also metallic and will shiny if you dye it appropriately.

Is there way to see which combos will yield the shiny appearance?

I have used dyes that (according to gw2db) are metallic on obviously metallic gear and have never seen the “shiny” appearance…and I have my settings completely maxed at all times.

Draka.6071:

mulch.2586:

Some dyes are coded as having metallic or leather texture. If the armor is also coded as metallic, you’ll get reflection like that.

What’s cool is some light armor has parts that are also metallic and will shiny if you dye it appropriately.

Is there way to see which combos will yield the shiny appearance?

I have used dyes that (according to gw2db) are metallic on obviously metallic gear and have never seen the “shiny” appearance…and I have my settings completely maxed at all times.

In game you click your dyes to sort by material, which will help you narrow it down.

I have to say I’m pretty sure there’s no way to know until you do it and then look at your character, cuz it will NOT usually show in the dye preview for me.

Edit: My discovery for this was via the “white gold” dye. I’d used it as a substitute for white, and many armors it looked either white or like used-to-be-white that’s been thru the washer too many times. Then by chance I found it actually looks like shiny gold, but only on armor that is shiny when it’s not dyed at all.

What video card are you using this is just the shader turned up to max. It might have no effect if your card does not support high level shading. There’s 1, 2, and 3. There’s probably stuff inbetween.

All my armors look shiny no matter what the dye color is, because I’m wearing heavy metallic armor and have a graphics card that supports Shader 3.0

mulch.2586:

Draka.6071:

mulch.2586:

Some dyes are coded as having metallic or leather texture. If the armor is also coded as metallic, you’ll get reflection like that.

What’s cool is some light armor has parts that are also metallic and will shiny if you dye it appropriately.

Is there way to see which combos will yield the shiny appearance?

I have used dyes that (according to gw2db) are metallic on obviously metallic gear and have never seen the “shiny” appearance…and I have my settings completely maxed at all times.

In game you click your dyes to sort by material, which will help you narrow it down.

I have to say I’m pretty sure there’s no way to know until you do it and then look at your character, cuz it will NOT usually show in the dye preview for me.

Edit: My discovery for this was via the “white gold” dye. I’d used it as a substitute for white, and many armors it looked either white or like used-to-be-white that’s been thru the washer too many times. Then by chance I found it actually looks like shiny gold, but only on armor that is shiny when it’s not dyed at all.

Awesome. I’ll give that a go. Thank you!

I know my Warrior’s plate armor from the Cursed Shores karma vendors has that shiney look using Iron Dye.

Tou.3078:

Groovy.6749:

I know that wielding the legendary hammer Juggernaut gives your character a metal skin, but it doesn’t seem like he’s wielding a 2 handed weapon at all….maybe another legendary, no idea :/

The metal skin from juggernaut looks like this instead.

I could have sworn the effect picks up the color of the underlying armor. And also that there is some kind of bug where the effect remains as long as it is one of the weapon sets.

It’s environmental.

Some zone have very metallic reflective looking environment maps. try visitting diessa platue that always makes my plate armours look incredibly shiny. (You’ll need to have your textures/shaders/shadows turned up)