Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!

I’m colorblind. Meaning, I can see colors, but I’ve some difficulties identifying them and confuse some for others. That’s brought me all sorts of wierd situations like the awkward that came when I was gifted with a prismacolor color crayon box and had to ask my mom “Which is firetruck red?” “Which is grass green?”. In high school we had to color this map in history class and I colored all the oceans surrounding America violet (I thought I was picking blue) – the teacher thought I was messing with him and sent me to the principal’s office. Whee.

Thankfully, Guild Wars 2 names its colors and shunts them into categories by rarity, material type and hue. That’s enormously helpful, but that doesn’t prevent me from having some difficulties.

I have a Sylvari Ranger. Her name is Sylviana (stayed up late on launch day to get that one, though today I’m regreting it doesn’t sound more irish/gaelic). I get comments as to that she looks pretty, but then when I tell people I was trying to get her to look like the Pale Tree, I get a “the Pale Tree doesn’t look anything like that; Syl’s more pink/fuschia”.

Right now, wearing the Firstborn medium cultural armor; her ‘leaf’ color is Glory, her secondary hue is Royal Rose. Stem color (her skin) is Olive. I think her eyes are Lilac and that her bioluminescence matches that when it’s dark. I’ve included a screenshot of my dyes and current pallette in attachment.

My goal would be to have Sylviana match the leaf and trunk color of the Pale Tree (not the Avatar; rather, the big tree that makes most of the Grove that’s in the background of my attached screenshot). Also, Sylviana uses Warden weapons (Sylvari Tier 3 cultural weapons), and I’d like to explore matching the color of the wood of the weapons as well as the crystaline looking bits (i.e.: maybe with eyecolor/bioluminescence matching those crystals).

But I’d need help figuring out what colors I’d need for that, both to obtain and select the right dyes, and to use the correct value with an appearance changing kit. I’m hoping some of you might take the time to help me.

Thank you for your consideration.

Your Sylvari is actually purple/pink rather than yellow/green.

I messed around in the Preview screen and I think Pastel Lemon (light yellow) and Nectar (a bit darker light yellow) are the closest yellows (because the Pale Tree has some darker and lighter yellows). The green seems close to Olive Ice (light green). That being said, I only have a light colored Sylvari so I can’t compare the colors on that armor outside of the preview screen, nor stand next to the Pale Tree to compare.

Melanie, your colour palette matches the Avatar of the Tree, but I think Zoberraz wanted to match the tree itself.

This is the best image of the tree I could find on google, unfortunately the aerial perspective changes the colours a bit.

Oh! I always forget the Avatar is not the actual Pale Tree, haha. :P I’ll go and browse some dyes.

Edit: I think Rose Ice (light pink) and Blurple (purple) are closest.

Hey Zo,

This is my interpretation of the Pale Tree. All the colors used were shown in the video as well. http://youtu.be/157BmHIKVDM

Thank you for posting in to help me!

From what I understood, Melanie suggested mimicking the leaves with Blurple for the center and Rose Ice for the outer edges.

Iris (thank you so much for taking the time to make a video for me!) seemed to propose the following:

- Shoulders
Primary: Summer Thistle
Secondary: Pastel Rose
- Coat
Primary: Pastel Wine
Secondary: Iris Blush
Tertiary: Violet
- Gloves
Primary: Veronica
Secondary: Summer Thistle
Tertiary: Veronica
- Leggings
Primary: Pastel Wine
Secondary: Starry Night
Tertiary: Evening
- Boots
Primary: Pastel Wine
Secondary: Summer Thistle
Tertiary: Phlox

- Skin pattern
Pattern Color: Black Maple
Glow Color: Streamlet
- Hair Color: Shy Iris

Though the outfits worn didn’t exactly match, I did think the composition was nice and reminiscent of the tree’s foliage. I’m not clear on the skin and eye color.

Maxwell was right in regard to how the distance and perspective changes made the Pale Tree’s coloring look different. The attached picture shows an example of the leaves and tree limbs from closer (though there’s a bit of a glow effect on them in this area, but it didn’t so invasive as to widely alter the color).

What I’d like to know now is which color would match the treebark of the Pale Tree, as well as what color would match the crystal that makes most of the Warden weapons (like the greatsword in Sylviana’s back).

Hey Zo,

You listed all of them right. I picked Streamlet as the blue that can match the crystal of your warden weapons while Shy Iris both Black Maple are very subdue colors which looks like the tree bark under the blue mist. I used different shades of purple/rose/pink/violet to mimic the delicate and prismatic change of the Pale tree’s leaves. I aimed for the harmony of all colors so that the gentle sophistication of the Pale tree can be preserved.

Sorry. My reply here is a bit belated. I wanted to wait some until I could accumulate the resources to implement some of the changes proposed by the kind people whom offered assistance to me.

Below is a picture of Sylviana as she is now. It’s actually pretty close to the colors shown by Iris Ng, though I did tone down the color of the thighs some – they felt too bright.

Not that this detracts much from the end result. Most of the leafy parts of Sylviana’s outfit as this nice healthy glow that make her stand out without making her as glaringly bright as some other characters I’ve seen. It’s pretty enough for me not to envy too much those people that managed to get the bio-luminescent armor out of the Silverwastes.

Going Black Maple was too dark to my liking – I wasn’t used to Syl’s face looking so dark over the years I played her, and I thought it’d be good to have some contrast anyways (treebark is rarely the same color as the leaves of a tree anyhow). I chose to stick with ‘Oak’ as skin color for her since it’d match the wood of Sylviana’s warden weapons more closely.

Again, thanks a lot for having helped me. It was very appreciated.