Curse

donjn · Oct 29, 2007, 06:18 AM // 06:18

Call me lucky but this is my first week playing GW. I even boguht Factions and Nightfall and love it!

A Charr dropped black dye, and I know enough about the game to know its worth 6 to 8k.

The question is, what should I do? I play a Warrior and have a Necro alt in Nightfall that would love the black dye. But I only have 2.5k so far and the prospects of a big payday are tempting. The black dye does look great testing it on my Warrior's Wyvern armor though.

Help! I guess a vet would keep it but what about a new player? Should I sell it?

RPGmaniac · Oct 29, 2007, 06:21 AM // 06:21

Sell it, you need the money for your max armor. That stuff costs 1k per piece plus materials.

And, lucky you. It took me a couple months of playing to get my first black dye. Ironically though it was within a week of making my warrior, whom all of my black dyes have dropped for.

fenix · Oct 29, 2007, 06:23 AM // 06:23

Yeah, definitely sell it. Everyone and his dog has black dye, so you're better off with the money.

Kook~NBK~ · Oct 29, 2007, 06:26 AM // 06:26

Congrats! It took me eight months to get my first black dye.

Personally, I'd sell it for the cash to generate the funds needed to get your armor/weapons taken care of. You'll also need money for skills - especially in Nightfall & factions. Also, the better armor/weapons/skills you have, the faster you'll generate income for the vanity things like black dye. Once you use that dye, you can never recover it, so don't waste in on non-max armor!

DarkGanni · Oct 29, 2007, 06:32 AM // 06:32

I think this topic belongs in this thread > http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0210947&page=6

- Ganni

strcpy · Oct 29, 2007, 06:46 AM // 06:46

Sell, at that point in the game that is fabulously rich. You can pretty much choose your skills, armor, and weapons with little other thought. By the time you will really know if you want to keep an armor or not then black dye isn't *that* expensive and you will most likely choose based on looks anyway.

It isn't enough prestige to be worth it later on and the actual game play help it would give you in the early game is significant.

ryanryanryan0310 · Oct 29, 2007, 06:47 AM // 06:47

I miss that old feeling when you first get a good drop.

Socomruled Xi · Oct 29, 2007, 06:49 AM // 06:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kook~NBK~

Congrats! It took me eight months to get my first black dye.

Personally, I'd sell it for the cash to generate the funds needed to get your armor/weapons taken care of. You'll also need money for skills - especially in Nightfall & factions. Also, the better armor/weapons/skills you have, the faster you'll generate income for the vanity things like black dye. Once you use that dye, you can never recover it, so don't waste in on non-max armor!

Took me 4 months playing xD. Whas at main island then i get some nooby beasts down, black dye ZOMG xD

Railin · Oct 29, 2007, 06:54 AM // 06:54

I've had GW for about 29 months now and in total I've found 3 black dyes. :|

Holly Herro · Oct 29, 2007, 07:04 AM // 07:04

Grats, it took me about 21 months to find my first black dye :\

I'd sell it if I were you.

**cosyfiep** · Oct 29, 2007, 07:18 AM // 07:18

I've had lots of dyes drop this month (more than my average which is one a day or so)....and even a black and a white this week.......maybe they have upped the % for dye to drop?
So congrats OP, and I go with the crowd and say sell it....some others think that black dye is the ONLY color for armor so there is a buyer/demand out there for it!

Estic · Oct 29, 2007, 07:23 AM // 07:23

You might want to keep it if you like black dye. However, don't use it on your armor atm, waste of 6-8k. That armor will be obsolete in about 3-5 missions and then you can say goodbye to your black dye.

If you really like the colour, keep it and make money in other ways. If you really need the cash, sell it.

holababe · Oct 29, 2007, 07:26 AM // 07:26

Approaching my second birthday..have NEVER had a black dye drop (couple of whites tho)

Sell the dye, make some money. Actually, PM me ingame (Dendra The Mighty) and I'll donate a whole bunch of other colours to you. I have heaps of them in storage because you get very little money for selling them.

A11Eur0 · Oct 29, 2007, 07:44 AM // 07:44

I need two more to dye my monk's Labrynthine tats. Haven't seen one drop in a couple months now(for me anyway). Got a white the other day though.

Shadow of Light · Oct 29, 2007, 08:18 AM // 08:18

My advice? Unless you need money *right* *now*, hold on to it. Sell it when you need to cash in, not before. A lot of skills early in the game you'll learn through quests, so it's a waste to buy them. You'll always be finding better weapons as you progress, and it's not really worth buying armour until you get to Droknar's Forge (by then, so long as you haven't wasted all your gold on female elemtalists and dwarven ale, you should have enough to buy the armour without selling the dye. Collector's armour gets you the rest of the way).

Black dye is nice to have.

Keep it in reserve until you need cash or want to use it on your pretty endgame armour.

Yama Sutra · Oct 29, 2007, 08:24 AM // 08:24

Yesterday , when i was farming destriyer cores with my ele , i got 2 black dyes and 1 white dye .......

So i guess it was my lucky day

Rothen Kithkanan · Oct 29, 2007, 08:26 AM // 08:26

i would say definately dont use it. I'm guessing that as you've only been playing a week, you dont have max armor. Therefore if you stick your black dye on your current armor its waste. My vote would be to either sell it now, or hold onto it and sell/use later

Ken34 · Oct 29, 2007, 08:29 AM // 08:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by donjn

Call me lucky but this is my first week playing GW. I even boguht Factions and Nightfall and love it!

A Charr dropped black dye, and I know enough about the game to know its worth 6 to 8k.

The question is, what should I do? I play a Warrior and have a Necro alt in Nightfall that would love the black dye. But I only have 2.5k so far and the prospects of a big payday are tempting. The black dye does look great testing it on my Warrior's Wyvern armor though.

Help! I guess a vet would keep it but what about a new player? Should I sell it?

wow, de ja vu, i started playing this game a month or so ago, and my first black dye drop was when my friend was helping me with a early mish, and a charr dropped a black dye, i knew nothing at the time, luckily his excited reaction clued me in, lol. now 400+ hours later and it seems like nothing, lol.

Longasc · Oct 29, 2007, 08:30 AM // 08:30

Put it immediately on your 1.5k pants, especially as you only have 2.5k in your storage.

This makes total sense, it was good that you asked here. Feel free to ask again if similar difficult issues arise. *smacks head against wall*

Darkobra · Oct 29, 2007, 08:36 AM // 08:36

I used to sell dyes to a regular merchant before I knew that dye traders bought for more than 1 gold. Thankfully I kept the blacks and silvers for personal use, so I only lost maybe a few hundred by selling off some other dyes. This was WAY back so I can't remember just how much they would have been.