Guild Wars 2

Just an annyoed thing to see about this armor,

I’ve been seeing this armor alot on NPCs over the Tyria. I’ve tried to copy this armor, or the armor set in Ebonhawke’s Fallen Angels’ soldiers. ( See the picture to see the Fallen Angels armor ) That armor of the NPC looks alot clearner and pretty nicer while the player’s armor looks like this ( Watch the picture to see Caudecus’s Manor’s Dungeon armor for players ) – WHY is our so dirty and looks more uglier than the NPCs ones?
I am really annyoed about that. Is that some kind of bug or is it suppost to be that?

Thanks,
Regards Alga.

There’s a setting for high resolution player textures in your graphics options. I’m guessing if you turn it off you might get to look something like how the NPC’s do.

Edit: actually I just checked and it claims to work on NPC’s too. I’d suggest testing it anyway though, because the way you look in that screenshot is much closer to how I see NPC’s in that armour – and even just the armour on stands in rooms – than your screenshot of an NPC wearing it, with maxed settings.

Edit2: quick screenshot of some still ones. The lights seems a lot less intense here than your SS so it’s less pronounced, but on my settings it’s significantly different from the NPC you found. If not something to do with textures, maybe lighting, reflections, etc? The ‘clean’ one looks almost like it’s got a coat of grey paint on it, so anything that makes metal look less… well, metal… might make you look that way.

LameFox.6349:

There’s a setting for high resolution player textures in your graphics options. I’m guessing if you turn it off you might get to look something like how the NPC’s do.

Edit: actually I just checked and it claims to work on NPC’s too. I’d suggest testing it anyway though, because the way you look in that screenshot is much closer to how I see NPC’s in that armour – and even just the armour on stands in rooms – than your screenshot of an NPC wearing it, with maxed settings.

Edit2: quick screenshot of some still ones. The lights seems a lot less intense here than your SS so it’s less pronounced, but on my settings it’s significantly different from the NPC you found. If not something to do with textures, maybe lighting, reflections, etc? The ‘clean’ one looks almost like it’s got a coat of grey paint on it, so anything that makes metal look less… well, metal… might make you look that way.

Thank you for your post! It does look the same if you’re lowing the settings to the lowest or the high resolution player textures. I guess I have to live with this..
Althought the female’s chest of this armor looks also different from the Dungeon armor….

Watch at the Picture;

Hrm… yeah that’s interesting. For reference I took a quick screenshot of the armour previewed on a male human (and you thought it looked dirty with your dye). Now it looks like the more ^ shaped line across the chest is present in the male version and your left example, but missing from the female version of the noble’s chest piece, and some of the lines in the NPC’s armour aren’t there either. It almost seems like variations of the same design, and the NPC maybe has an earlier one?