Guild Wars 2

Trying to make the best of a bad thing I dyed a few outfits to colors vaguely acceptable last night. Then I learned that if I swapped to another outfit, and returned to the one I’d dyed, it had gone back to default colors.

This could be due to it “reloading” the skin each time it’s selected, but I sure hope it’s an unintended effect. It takes a while to get just the right mix of hues in just the right channels. Who on earth wants to do that every single time they swap their appearance?

I did not test if an equipped outfit lost anything on relog, as it was late at night and I was just trying to get on all my alts and update their wardrobes and dyes and WXP. But surely the intended design is that we apply dyes and the system remembers those dyes on that outfit on that character until we change the colors? No matter how often we change our gear around?

After setting the dyes, did you click the “these changes will cost 0 transmutation charges” off to the right of the hero panel? You can view changes, but if you don’t apply that, they will not stick.

Yes, I did. The dyes do stick so long as that is my equipped Outfit, even if I toggle it off to show armor then return to the Outfit. But woe betide me if I decide to put on a different Outfit and dye it, then go back to the first one. The dyes are returned to default.

Others have mentioned this in the feedback threads. I figured it’s got to be a bug, hence I posted it here.