Guild Wars 2

Let me precede that I’m fine with outfits in general and own about half of them.

Now, another outfit, and still one global dye quadruple instead of dyes saved per outfit. ANet, it has been stated before, but you are making less money with outfits than you easily could.

There is not much reason to own many outfits if you cannot effortlessly swap them. E.g. it’s nice being able to change into the Arctic Explorer or Fancy Winter one when porting into a Shiverpeaks zone. Or putting on the Jungle Explorer in the HoT zones. Etc.

Imo the one reason people don’t do this: finding and re-applying those dyes one found to look best on the particular outfit.

I presume implementing per-outfit saved dye sets (and maybe more channels) means a lot less effort than breaking outfits into separate, combinable armor pieces, as requested before.

I’d also like them saved. As it is now I keep an Outfit Dyes Word document, sorted out by alt name, and any outfit I’m likely to have them don next gets a list of the colors used. At least I can swap semi-quickly by checking my list and typing in the dye names in the search field, but it’s a far cry from one-touch swapping. I also tend to find a dye scheme that works well enough across multiple outfits for one alt so I get a few things I can change them to without having to hunt and peck the dye choices. I * the ones that they might actually wear other than as a player joke. Some alts get a scheme for every outfit, others just the ones I didn’t wince and toggle off the moment I saw them worn. I also tend to certain hue palettes for each alt.

eg

Ylfa Aetlaveidr
Balthazar – Pyre, Bronze, Abyss, Any
Bandit — Midnight Rust, Bronze (a green hue), Marine, Ivory
*Cooks – Midnight Rust, Bronze (a green hue), Marine, Ivory
Daydreamer – Midnight Olive, Butterscotch, Pyre, Lemon Zest
Exemplar – Antique Gold, Mohair, Midnight Red, Lemon Zest
Gwen – Lemon Shade, Bronze, Midnight Fire, Cocoa
Imperial — Midnight Rust, Bronze (a green hue), Marine, Ivory
*Ironclad — Midnight Rust, Bronze (a green hue), Marine, Ivory
*Jungle Explorer – Glint’s Isolation, Tarnished Silver, Pine, Dark Olive OR Midnight Rust, Bronze (a green hue), Marine, Ivory
Mad Scientist — Midnight Olive, Butterscotch, Pyre, Lemon Zest
*Monk – Glint’s Isolation, Lemon Tint, Midnight Yew, Shadow Green
Noble Count – Midnight Rust, Bronze, Marine, Ivory
Raiment of the Lich — Midnight Rust, Bronze, Marine, Ivory
Royal Guard – Glint’s Isolation, Tarnished Silver, Glint’s Isolation, Dark Olive
*Wedding – Shadow Red, Ivory, Lemon Zest, Midnight Olive

(I specify Bronze is in the Green section because I began this before we got a search field on dyes and it was easier to leave it in).

I’ve wanted this since forever.

I agree.

This is the main reason I’ve only bought 2 outfits. I have a hard enough time finding dye schemes that work for both of those (and on some characters I want to use the Royal Guard and Hexed outfits too), most of the time I have to settle for something that looks good on the outfit I use most and ok on one or two of the others.

I sometimes think about buying another outfit for more variety, then I remember that I’d have to settle for a dye scheme that looks ok at best and it just doesn’t seem worth the money.

(While we’re on the subject second on my outfit wish list is the return of the keyboard shortcut to switch between them and our armour, I don’t really understand why it was removed when the wardrobe was introduced but it was really helpful.)

Yes. Exactly. This feature would be so useful. Especially when you have most of the dyes — it’s a huge amount to go through. And you can only save 8 favorites. The way they are now is so cumbersome.

Why not have a lock/unlock symbol beside the outfit. Lock: those colors are locked for that outfit on that character. Unlock: dyes are now global (or as they are now).

…And I wish they would stop releasing new outfits in the gem store but NOT having them ready in the hero preview. Why does this keep happening?

I second the request. Save colors per outfit, please.