Guild Wars 2

What color codes/dye equivelant are they?
I’ve been trying to find the right color for an hour. I’m using a tormented sword.

Looking for both the color of the metal blade aswell as the magical effect the weapon has.

Check Dulfy’s Dye Gallery and compare color shades.
http://dulfy.net/2013/12/24/gw2-dye-gallery/

If I had the eye capacity to do that I would not have made the thread. I’m bad with colors.

ArenaNet made dyes behave and appear differently across the types of materials, as well as appearing differently on those materials based on your character’s species.

Grape Dye on a metal part of heavy armor being worn by a charr will appear differently than Grape Dye on the same metal part of the same heavy armor that is worn by a human.

Similarly (and another layer of complexity), Grape Dye on cloth elements of heavy armor appear differently than cloth elements on light armor, let alone also being worn by a different species.

Even worse is that Grape Dye on metal elements of torso armor appears different from Grape Dye on the metal elements of the leg armor (even if from the same armor set as the torso). So you cannot even have consistency in appearance across the same material on different pieces of armor.

It’s really quite difficult to match dyes across armor pieces, let alone with a weapon.

Using a dye on one piece/area of armor may seem to match the Tormented purple, but getting areas of other pieces of armor to also match the Tormented purple will more often than not require a different shade of purple.

e.g.
Grape Dye on the metal elements of the torso armor may match, but you would need to use Grape Gum Dye on the metal elements of the legs to match as it appears differently. Then still another shade of purple for other elements.

Colors look differently for everyone, especially when you throw in variations in monitor settings, additional color tweaks, graphics settings, and other elements that change how colors are presented and perceived. So what may look great to you and seem to match may be completely different when viewed by someone else.

Basically, if it looks good to you or seems to match enough for your taste, then go with it as it is sure to appear differently for other people.

Also, here is one of my characters I have the Tormented Sword, Tormented Axe and Tormented Longbow on. I used several shades of purple across the different elements of the different armor pieces to get it to look how I liked. I also mixed in midnight ice and celestial to selectively offset and enhance elements of the shades of purple in combination with the purple of the Tormented weapons.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/sylvari/Screens-of-your-Sylvari/4075999

You would likely use Midnight Ice and Midnight Purple on metal elements of armor pieces to be close to the shade and sheen of dark metal of the Tormented weapons. The purple appears differently even on the tormented weapons, so it is mostly trial an error to test them out to see which ones work for you in your armor design.

But I am a cloth user lol.. It’s for my mesmer…Nice character though..

Verificus.4320:

But I am a cloth user lol.. It’s for my mesmer…Nice character though..

All the principles and elements of dye behavior I mentioned still apply to cloth elements of light armor, even more so, actually, than cloth elements on other armor weights.

Sadly, it is basically trial and error in testing out different dyes that you will need to do on your own due to the reasons I mentioned above. :\