Guild Wars 2

Hi, I made a new alt recently and in the character creation, I gave his armor a mix of blue and white dyes. As far as I remember, normally equipping a new piece of armor would make the armor inherit the dye scheme of the previous piece. But when I equip new armor on him, it all defaults to a “Dye Remover” brownish color.

I don’t know if it happens on my 80s because they don’t exactly get new armor, but it seems a little too strange to be intentional.

New items don’t keep the previous armors dyes, for the most part. You will need to dye each piece equipped, again.

Yeah the fact that it kept the dye was a bug. You always have to dye new pieces of armor.

That’s… interesting. But good to know. Thanks!

I think it mostly has to do with the fact that there are various types of armor that have a different number of dye slots. Some have just 1 while others have up to 4. Instead of the game guessing how you want your dye placement when you’re new armor has more or less slots than the previous one, it just resets.

BIGHARSHNESS.3510:

Yeah the fact that it kept the dye was a bug. You always have to dye new pieces of armor.

Huh? You sure? From what I recall it does keep the dye, except if an armor has a dye channel that was never tinted. Even the preview window uses your current dyes.

shadow.6174:

BIGHARSHNESS.3510:

Yeah the fact that it kept the dye was a bug. You always have to dye new pieces of armor.

Huh? You sure? From what I recall it does keep the dye, except if an armor has a dye channel that was never tinted. Even the preview window uses your current dyes.

It used to (hence bigharsh saying it WAS a bug). Now, the dyes are reset when you equip a new piece, even if that piece is the same skin. The preview window is different and hasn’t changed in that aspect.

RoseofGilead.8907:

It used to (hence bigharsh saying it WAS a bug). Now, the dyes are reset when you equip a new piece, even if that piece is the same skin. The preview window is different and hasn’t changed in that aspect.

Oh? I didn’t notice that. Actually I didn’t see the previous behavior as a bug and if this is an intended change once again it was a bad one :S What was wrong with keeping the previous dye? O.o

Nevermind, I see what the issue in it lol. Maybe I was just used with the old behavior but now I stopped to think about I see it’s good that each gear keep its colors. However, I think it could be useful if a fresh new gear could “copy” your current dyes when worn for the first time.