Guild Wars 2

After creating a female Sylvari Guardian character, I was having an issue where dyes were not being applied to the starter chainmail armor. Further, upon trying to unequip the armor in order to re-equip it (in case this made the dyes show up), the game would crash.

This happened several times, since I tried deleting and re-creating the character multiple times to try to resolve this issue.

I tried deleting my local.dat, and tried selling my starter armor and replacing it with vendor chainmail armor from LA. Same problem occurred: dyes not applied and game crash on unequip of armor.

What was puzzling was that earlier I had been able to successfully dye the armor on my first iteration of this character. I had deleted and re-created the character in order to change some facial features and since then had issues.

Then it struck me that the first time, after coming out of the Dream, when I had the choice to pick either a shield or a focus for a reward, I had chosen the shield. But…since then, for every re-creation after that, I had been choosing the focus.

Sure enough, once I destroyed that starter focus, then I was able to dye successfully. In addition, buying and equipping a focus from a vendor did not cause any issues.

This was so strange I thought it worth reporting.

I actually had this same issue, but it wasn’t on a Sylvari, nor on a beginner character.

I have a level 80 female human Elementalist on Henge of Denravi server that I bought karma gear for, that had this same crash issue. Every time I would try to a specific part of the new boots the basic dye color “Autumn”, the color would revert to “Dye Remover” (even though in preview and before I closed the dye tab it appeared as if the color had stayed), and unequiping the item always resulted in my game crashing. The funny part is, ANY other color aside from “Autumn” would dye normally, and unequiping the boots with those colors didn’t cause my game to crash. I also had no problems with the boots I’d had previously (which I’d just transmuted to make said “Crash Boots”) nor did I have issues with any of the other karma gear pieces that I similarly transmuted at the same time as the boots.

I didn’t try recreating my character (for obvious reasons), nor took the same measures you did in trying to fix it, mostly because it didn’t occur to me to do so at the time. However, I did file an in game bug report and ticket about it, and the issue eventually resolved itself (I never did find out how), but my Crash Boots sound a lot like your noobie crash armor. I wonder, did you use the same dye color I did perhaps? Or maybe there is some other link between our issues? The only thing that changed since my boots made me crash, aside from time passing, was me getting her a new staff and some Ascended rings.

I tried several dye colors, although it was one of the default green ones (Jalapeno?) I initially intended to use. It didn’t seem to be related to the specific dye color.

Another possibility is that there was some “memory” somewhere (either stored locally or on the server) of my initial version of my character that did not get removed properly when I deleted the character and re-created it. And then somehow the difference between the saved information about having a shield vs now having a focus caused the issue? If such inconsistencies could occur, then perhaps they could occur at any level due to some hiccup (disconnect, glitch, etc.) which results in the inconsistent state manifesting in the form of dyeing issues. I dunno.