Guild Wars 2

OK, yeah. After a while I just went ahead and changed it to red and orange for a test in a different light, then back again. It would seem the oil colors are only in the character window. Though, if you use oily colors like the midnight dyes (I believe most if not all do this), they tend to hold the blue tones. I don’t have enough dyes to test this more. The in game model tones are much more dull and lose the shine pretty much altogether without the use of said midnight dyes/others that add the oil effect.

Thanks Runiir, your thoughts gave me the idea to change lighting. The blur from the wintery areas and torches make it hard to tell. So I retested it in Lions Arch and it seems alright. Yays! =D

To the point, this armor is very hard to color. Because of the default oily color texture leaves a shiny blue tone it is near impossible to color it anything save with blues and purples (and some blacks) without the blue oil coat off setting the colors.
For example, color it white and red and you will see the oil like blue shine very clearly from lighting.
Would love to see this set change so it could be colored w/o the blue being so overpowering, or there at all for that matter.
Just my thoughts on an otherwise fun set (Coloring the plant armors is very enjoyable).