Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing a Sylvari recently and I thought the glow wasn’t exclusive to nighttime, my character would glow in caves, shadows and dark places, daytime or nighttime. The other day I used a self-style hairkit I got out of a black lion chest to change the color of my characters hair. My character no longer glows unless it is night. I was wondering if this was a bug, if there is a fix, how sylvari glow works etc.

The glow has always been exclusive to nighttime, as far as I know.

Is it possibly something they changed after launch, that character is from around launch day, and the change didn’t take effect until I changed the hair color?

There are certain instanced locations (like dungeons, as well as certain story instances if I’m not mistaken) which activate the glow, but as far as open-world goes, its always been night-only as far as I’m aware.

dotWAVE.3047:

Is it possibly something they changed after launch, that character is from around launch day, and the change didn’t take effect until I changed the hair color?

Nope, there’s not been any change. As was indicated above, certain areas are perpetually in “night time”; so, you could have just been in night places and not realized it.

I did have glow in open world, I specifically remember being in bloodtide coast and glowing when I stepped into shadows and such. Apparantly they nerfed it back in 2012 and my character was just affected.

dotWAVE.3047:

I did have glow in open world, I specifically remember being in bloodtide coast and glowing when I stepped into shadows and such. Apparantly they nerfed it back in 2012 and my character was just affected.

Perhaps your characters’ glow is simply subtle enough that you can only notice it when you’re in an actual dark area, even when its night time?

Night time in GW2 isn’t very dark, so perhaps even the normal lighting at night is enough to wash out your glow and make it too subtle to be noticed until you go into a shadow or a cave.