Guild Wars 2

Hello GW2 community,

I’ve been bothered by an issue for quite some time now that I decided to take it here. First, please take a look at these screenshots:

https://s3.postimg.org/y3zlkwdhf/light.jpg
In this image, you can see my char near a light source, with both hair and armor using Celestial dye, which most people use. It is perfectly normal.

Now look at this:
https://s4.postimg.org/vbjxqjmil/dark.jpg
This screenshot is taken in complete darkness (near bank in Lion’s Arch at night). You see where I’m getting at, right?

Clearly the people designing the armor are working in different departments with the people who design the hairstyles.

Is anybody else bothered by this? I searched the forums but couldn’t find anything addressing this issue. I know that Twilight Arbor armor is also defying light / shadow rules like this hair, so it doesn’t look awkward. Thinking that GW2 is huge on cosmetics, which is also a huge part of the endgame, this seems odd to me. I got stuck using Twilight Arbor armor for years. I’m sick of it.

Also I’m not so naive to think that this will get resolved anytime, so maybe someone knows other armors which “shine in the dark” like the hair in the screenshot.

Any comments?

Okay, firstly I don’t know how this fits to the “players helping players” category but hey, not here to argue with the mods. So what happened is that I couldn’t take it and I turned back to my Twilight Arbor armor. This screenshot is taken at complete darkness at bloodstone fen:

https://s3.postimg.org/e1na53dwj/gw002.jpg

I’m literally shining, which shouldn’t be the case. Completely kills the immersion.

I really would like a dev comment on this. Will this get fixed soon?

Since some time has passed, maybe there is new info. I really would like an explanation for this.

I don’t think there is anything to fix. Different materials will take dye in different ways, and that’s true of hair as well as armour.

Also the Twilight Arbour armor is supposed to glow. Like sylvari and their cultural armour it’s bioluminescent, which means it has it’s own glow that appears at night time. I think a lot of people (myself included) would be pretty disappointed if they removed that effect, IMO it’s one of the best things about the armour.

The hair is probably designed to stay white. I expect there are a lot more people who’d be upset if their white hair turned a dingy gray than people who are unhappy their white hair stays white.

Its celestial dye. It works the same on armor. It partially defies real world lighti g to always look bright