Guild Wars 2

Can someone help me find a guide or teach me how to dye my clothes realistically (what color goes well with other color, etc.)? When I dye my clothes it looks fake or ugly :/ and also I don’t know what to search in google I keep looking on the wrong sites.

Here are my tips

- Usually a good contrast is important as it gives definiton to certain parts of armor.
- Having different shades of the same colour gives a nice flowing look.
- Try to stick to few colours only. You do not need to look like a rainbow.
- Use the same colour set throughout all armor pieces.

For example

1) Start off with brighter colours at the top and tone it down towards the bottom. Say yellow and white top, then mostly yellow, red/orange and white towards the bottom.

2) Using differnet shades of blue whilst using white. Light blue at the top, darker blues in the middle and light blue at the bottom. Play around with the ammount of white colour from top to bottom.

Surely colour is personal taste. I like Red and White heavy armour and greens for rangers.

Its personal preference but if u are looking for more “realistic” then just look at what the actual piece of armor is. Like cloth feel free to use any colors you choose to fit. Something that looks like leather use more browns and tans. Anything that looks metal or mesh use copper, iron, steel, gold, etc.

ah, yes i mostly mix white with other colors since that works best. when i try mixing other colors though, it looks like crap :/ one time i tried having blue and red, and i looked liked a japanese robot. thanks for the tips, ill try to improve my fashion senseeee

I tend to start by dying every piece 1 main color. Then I throw in other shades and colors bit by bit for accent.

A great color to mix with just about anything, aside from white, is “illumination” – I often use it for fringes and other decorative parts of my armors.

Another thing I’m very careful with is how similar the colors I use are; for example, two shades of blue need to be the exact same “color” but a different “brightness” (a darker and a lighter tone of the exact same hue) – I hate having e.g. one slightly more greenish and one slightly more violet-ish blue close together for example

When you want to combine different colors, you might want to use ones which would have a significantly different “brightness” when printed black and white – it’s difficult to explain, but a dark violet and a light yellow go better together that e.g. a medium blue and a medium green, in my opinion.

Also: Complementary colors – those will really make each other shine! I never liked the combo red-green though…orange-blue and violet-yellow usually go well together though

A few more tips to add to this already great list:
-Remember that not all dyes will appear the same color when you use them on your armor. This is especially true when you have pieces from multiple sets.
- When searching for dyes, look for commons. There are many out there that are nearly identical to uncommons and rares with different names.
- Since we have about 3 colors per item to work with, stick to at most 2 color families and 1 neutral (or less flashy color) family for your overall scheme.
- Take cues from your character’s hair, eye, and skin color. For example, my main is a sylvari with blue skin and red hair with yellow highlights. My clothing tends to have a lot of reds and golds, but I have also run teal and orange to good effect.
- Black is so overdone – and super expensive
- On top of simple complementary colors, remember split complements and triads can give you interesting options. Look at a standard 12 color wheel. Triads are three colors 120 degrees apart, split complements are a color (Color A) and the two colors bordering the color opposite Color A (such as purple, yellow-green, and yellow-orange).
- If all else fails, use neutrals for large areas of the same color and bright colors for accents. Then go find some more dyes.

I use a 2 colour combination myself. I find this striking and bold and easy for the eye.

IIn my personal opinion my friend you not only have to consider how awesome you might look to yourself and others, you also have to take into consideration the eye strain and what you yourself will be forced to look at for years or until the next colour change.

I use celestial and oxblood. Its a simple but striking combination that looks pretty cool imho. Celestial on the top blocks and oxblood on the bottom blocks.

I like to dye big parts of chest,leggings,helmet,shoulders one colour and smaller parts other…But max 3 colours. And like if i am playing thief or necro i go with more dark dyes, but if i am playing gurdain,mesmer i go with brighter dyes…

The great thing about the dye system in this game is that once you’ve got the colours you can experiment freely. So I’d suggest just taking the time to play around and figure out what works. And if you decide it doesn’t look good after a little while you can change it.

But in general I’ve found the most important thing is to limit yourself to just a few colours, I’d say 3 maximum, maybe 4 if you’re using 2 shades of the same colour or one is just for small parts. You can either pick a colour scheme and apply it the same way to all your armor, or ‘fade’ from one to the other, for example starting with a bright colour on top going into mid-tone trousers and then dark shoes.

The simplest approach is probably to pick one main colour and then dark or pale complimentary ones. For example my engineer has mainly green armor, but only one shade of green and all the rest is in dark browns to offset it. My ranger on the other hand has mainly purple armor with dark blues and then white or a very pale purple for small details.

Alternatively you could pick two contrasting colours and combine them for a more dramatic effect, but that’s harder to get right. White with red decorations can look great, but if you’re not careful you just end up with big, seemingly random patches of red and white and it looks a mess.

To some extent what works best depends on the armor you’re working with because on some each colour affects big, distinct areas whereas on others you’ve got one colour which covers pretty much all of it and the rest only do small areas. With some combinations certain colours might not show up at all because the areas they dye are hidden by another piece of armor.

On that note it’s also important to go by what the armor looks like rather than what the dye menu tells you is the main colour. Sometimes the biggest box actually affects a relatively small area, so don’t be afraid to shift your colours around to find what works.

guys, thank you so much for giving me and other player these tips on dyeing clothes. i think i’m getting better at doing this

i tried Frotee’s purple and yellow combination, i look so kitten now.