Guild Wars 2

What I’m looking for is a way to make my warrior’s armor look… shiny. Like it’s made of metal, not plastic or ceramics.

Shiny as the armor here:
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll197/theslothbear/DifferentColors-600x512.jpg

How do O obtain a shiny look for my armor?

By default the armor skins have shininess built into them. The dyes of course change the color, but if you were wearing that suit of armor that you posted a picture of, no matter what color you make it, it will look shiny.

My guardian has a couple pieces of early crafted armor that has that shine on it, though I have colored it an orange color.

If you are not seeing shininess, you may wanna check your graphical settings, since it should be automatic.

Bel Geode.8129:

By default the armor skins have shininess built into them. The dyes of course change the color, but if you were wearing that suit of armor that you posted a picture of, no matter what color you make it, it will look shiny.

My guardian has a couple pieces of early crafted armor that has that shine on it, though I have colored it an orange color.

If you are not seeing shininess, you may wanna check your graphical settings, since it should be automatic.

Currently I’m wearing a crafted draconic armor set. No matter what colour I apply (I usually stick to the metal set of dyes), it never looks reflective like the one in the picture (I googled).

I found a picture of draconic plate here:
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/9374/gw004.jpg

And as far as I’m concerned, that’s not shiny. Looks like celestial dye, but it’s still not polished.
- Is “looking polished” a graphics setting I’m missing? I usually crank everything up to max, running a GTX670 that’s no problem at all, but maybe some setting was resetted somehow?
- Or is it the armor?
- Or is the polished, reflective look I’m aiming for simply not available for in-game graphic?