Guild Wars 2

As there will be many upcoming changes in HoT , allow us to dye our weapons and back items
As I’m playing as a necromancer ( will be a reaper ) , it will be more suitable to equip a green/red Zenith Avenger Skin than a yellow"cute" one ! . Green/red Wings of the Sunless/Holographic Shattered Dragon Wings will be scary too

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

Why not ?! It’s for the same reason that you would dye an armor/outfit.
It’s not unique if every one has the exact look of your weapon/back !

In a cosmetic game, dying weapons makes a ton of sense. I would like it as well. won’t happen though, a dev awhile back posted about how weapon dye channels aren’t possible with their current engine.

EsarioOne.9840:

In a cosmetic game, dying weapons makes a ton of sense. I would like it as well. won’t happen though, a dev awhile back posted about how weapon dye channels aren’t possible with their current engine.

This should work as armor dye channels do. Why is it any different ?

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

We could do it in GW1 just saying, granted the dyes didnt effect much usually, and really i dont see them changing it this late anyways.

Dante.1763:

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

We could do it in GW1 just saying, granted the dyes didnt effect much usually, and really i dont see them changing it this late anyways.

Well i never played GW1 so idk. Just kinda stupid to dye weapons in my opinion. How would having people with red, blue, orange, etc weapons running around?

Ephemiel.5694:

Dante.1763:

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

We could do it in GW1 just saying, granted the dyes didnt effect much usually, and really i dont see them changing it this late anyways.

Well i never played GW1 so idk. Just kinda stupid to dye weapons in my opinion. How would having people with red, blue, orange, etc weapons running around?

People can run around in bright neon pink and blue-colored clothing right now. Is there really any harm to having goofy colors on weapons too? Most people probably won’t make their weapons look so gaudy, but the “breaks my immersion” argument falls flat when it can already be done. Also, they could tone down the amount that a dye affects the weapon color.

Changing the weapon/back color according to your class/spec is very enjoyable and interesting

We all run the same two builds for each class, the least they could do is let us paint every inch of our characters.

Ephemiel.5694:

Dante.1763:

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

We could do it in GW1 just saying, granted the dyes didnt effect much usually, and really i dont see them changing it this late anyways.

Well i never played GW1 so idk. Just kinda stupid to dye weapons in my opinion. How would having people with red, blue, orange, etc weapons running around?

How stupid is it that we can already dye metal armor? We don’t just dye the clothe parts. I don’t find it necessary, but I would certainly like to be able to dye my weapons.

Ephemiel.5694:

Dante.1763:

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

We could do it in GW1 just saying, granted the dyes didnt effect much usually, and really i dont see them changing it this late anyways.

Well i never played GW1 so idk. Just kinda stupid to dye weapons in my opinion. How would having people with red, blue, orange, etc weapons running around?

I played GW1 extensively (GWAMM here) so I can tell you in no uncertain terms that dyeing weapons would be a COLOSSAL bonus.

Some parts of the weapons wouldn’t be dyeable of course, like maybe the flame from a Fiery Dragon Sword etc, but just google ‘coloring chaos axe’ and you’ll see what it means

Also…

Blue-flame Incinerator: your argument is invalid :P

They made a design decision early on to not enable dyeing weapons. Apparently, this reduced development time and made it easier for them to introduce more weapon/weapon sets more often.

I’d love to dye my weapons, but I respect the trade-off, i.e. I’m also happy having more variety.

I never saw the point in dying weapons in GW1, normally all it did was dye the hilt, or hand grip on Axes and Hammers. I’m not against it, just don’t see the point as it would probably be the same in GW2.

yes we need to be able to dye weapons.

i can never understand how we can dye armor but not weapons.

Ephemiel.5694:

Dante.1763:

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

We could do it in GW1 just saying, granted the dyes didnt effect much usually, and really i dont see them changing it this late anyways.

Well i never played GW1 so idk. Just kinda stupid to dye weapons in my opinion. How would having people with red, blue, orange, etc weapons running around?

That’s weird but the Dreamer isn’t?

I don’t know, what would twilight look like if you applied celestial dye? The thing most of you seem to be ignoring is that this isn’t simple. All the armor is made to be dyed, while backpieces and weapons were designed with very specific coloring schemes.

Maybe not include legendaries and SAB weapons? (Just because there are multiple SAB weapons with different colors).

Many of the weapons are pretty unique themselves, and I think it’d be tricky to set those up to by dyed. But weapons such as the Fellblade and Chaos Weapons can easily be dyed (and very desirably, too! )

I’d love being able to dye weapons, but I’m not sure it’s possible with every make and model.

zapv.8051:

I don’t know, what would twilight look like if you applied celestial dye? The thing most of you seem to be ignoring is that this isn’t simple. All the armor is made to be dyed, while backpieces and weapons were designed with very specific coloring schemes.

(I know it would be a lot of work regardless of this)

But if they mimicked Dark Age of Camelot when they added weapon dyeing, some weapons would be dyeable, others would not.

I think it would be help character customization a lot even if we were to get something simple, like only the weapon skins used for iron class weapon can by dyed. (iron class being your basic masterwork weapon skin)

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

As much sense as dyeing armor.

I’m not going to lie that there haven’t been times where I have wanted to dye my weapons. But if it really was a choice in the early development process between Armor or Weapons… then I think they made the right call. The difficulty in making weapons dyeable comes from the wide range of dyes and that many weapons have advanced particle effects. I think they could easily give the non-legendary weapons dye channels but to give them all the option would be time consuming.

If they were to give the option, I could see them capping it with rarity. Like weapons that are Ascended or Legendary are the equivalent of GW1’s unique weapons that can’t be dyed. But weapons you get from low level crafting and loot like Fine, Masterwork or Rare are able to be dyed.

This game is a fashion simulator this option is long overdue.

would be a great option, but I could imagine that it’d be a LOT of work for them to do.

maybe instead of dyes the same way armor is dyed, have a “weapon dye-er” that can dye your weapons with simple changes, e.g. green/blue/red/white/black/yellow/purple. and only have certain weapons dye-able and roll more out as time goes on.

it’d be much less work imo and would help with the problem of say, ascended weapons literally just being recolors.

If i start seeing yellow axes around or rainbow swords, i’m blaming you guys!!

Ephemiel.5694:

If i start seeing yellow axes around or rainbow swords, i’m blaming you guys!!

Have you not seen the bows that shoot neighing unicorns, pistols that laugh or whatever, and giant surfboards on sticks that are bright yellow and black depending on the time of day?

Yellow axes and rainbow swords should be the least of your concerns if this actually happens, but I don’t see it happening any time soon if ever.

ITheNormalPerson.9275, that’s a good idea. It would be a simple Hue shift. Hues can be broken up into degrees. So you could get 6 basic hues; Red is 0/360, Yellow is 60, Green is 120, Aqua is 180, Blue is 240, Pink is 300.

It’s not perfect and would result in some strange looking combos but it is simplistic and most basic way to change a weapons colour.

The Daydreamer weapons would change to the following

1. Blue metal, Pink glow
2. Pink metal, gold glow
3. Red metal, Yellow/Green glow
4. Gold metal, Green glow (Default)
5. Green metal, Blue glow
6. Aqua metal, Purple glow

When it came to basic weapons like the Iron Dagger, most of it would shift in hue aside from the grey steel, that would stay relatively the same.

I guess they could apply the hue effect through a filter, and maybe they could make it a hue slider so you could get subtle shifts in hue. Don’t know how hard it would be add an effect filter though.

Mordeus.1234:

ITheNormalPerson.9275, that’s a good idea. It would be a simple Hue shift. Hues can be broken up into degrees. So you could get 6 basic hues; Red is 0/360, Yellow is 60, Green is 120, Aqua is 180, Blue is 240, Pink is 300.

It’s not perfect and would result in some strange looking combos but it is simplistic and most basic way to change a weapons colour.

The Daydreamer weapons would change to the following

1. Blue metal, Pink glow
2. Pink metal, gold glow
3. Red metal, Yellow/Green glow
4. Gold metal, Green glow (Default)
5. Green metal, Blue glow
6. Aqua metal, Purple glow

When it came to basic weapons like the Iron Dagger, most of it would shift in hue aside from the grey steel, that would stay relatively the same.

I guess they could apply the hue effect through a filter, and maybe they could make it a hue slider so you could get subtle shifts in hue. Don’t know how hard it would be add an effect filter though.

Nice ideas
+1

I don’t have strong feelings about dyeing weapons, but back pieces are something I would very much enjoy the ability to dye. It’s at the point where I disable them the vast majority of the time because they don’t match my clothing and I don’t want to redo my clothing to match them.

It actually miffs me a bit that they apparently invested so many artistic resources in adding animated and jiggleboned pieces to the crafter’s backpacks rather than making them aesthetically versatile. And if a lot of players are going to be running around wearing unnaturally stiff angel wings I’d at least like those wings match the rest of their gear.

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

Makes total sense especially since it was possible in the 1st game.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dye

gw2 is a lot more cosmetic based than gw1 was so it makes total sense to allow weapon dyeing.

I don’t think this will ever be an option. It would require reworking several thousand of weapons and backpieces to put in dye channels. It would take hours/days of work for a minor cosmetic change. I don’t see them ever taking the time to do that.

we could dye weapons in gw1 so why not add it to gw2? loved my black voltaic spear!!!

I agree especially with the back piece… Except for the Spinal blade which i built especially for my engineer with my engineer’s color scheme in mind, i pretty much had to change the dyes on all my other characters to fit the scheme of the backpack.
Most flagrant recent example of that is that i bought the balthazar outfit for my warrior, and basically had to recolor it to match the back from the pvP reward track.

i would love to be able to dye my weapons. there are some real nice weapons out there that i would pick up if i could dye them