Guild Wars 2

I’ve created an Asura guardian, and I previewed the cultural armor and tier 3 looks amazing in Blood dye and Abyss dye…however after spending 75g to get this gear, I find that the Asura tier 3 cultural is shiny and reflective (unlike in the actual preview) so come to find out Abyss dye is a shiny silver and Blood dye is a reflective pink. I know it seems trivial, but it takes a great deal of time to collect the 75g to get this equipment, and it should look the way that it does in the preview. It’s very upsetting. Either make the preview look like the way that it actually is…or…make the actual look exactly the same as the preview (preferred)

This is what the preview looks like…

the preview looked darker because there was no sun for the armor to reflect.

Most helmets are all one shade or more too dark compared to other pieces. Makes it very difficult to have a uniform, one color look. OP screens is a perfect example of this.

But could be worse; I spent 20g for light armor T3 hat and then noticed that 1/2 of it is a color you cannot change. Wish I knew that before I blew all my gold. I would have thought such expensive pieces would have at least 4 color bars to change.

Looks better live than in preview, IMO. But I understand that’s not your point.

I’ve come to realise that preview just doesn’t give me a good idea of what armour is actually going to look like. It made me not want to get the dungeon sets and culturals for ages because of how terrible they looked in preview, and then once I had them they were fine.