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Avarre · Oct 29, 2007, 09:46 AM // 09:46

The Black Dye Cartel has an NPC that gives out free black dyes in the guild hall.

True story.

Jongo River · Oct 29, 2007, 09:52 AM // 09:52

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Originally Posted by donjn

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.

I experimented with my Necro and the 1.5K armour she wears looked better with a "fake" black, than actual black. The fake was Red, Blue & Green mixed, IIRC. The real black was too strong against the non-colourable parts and looked horrible.

Anyway good find. It was a year before I got my first.

Oh and listen to "Shadow of Light" on buying skills. I've recently had a re-roll and have taken a couple of characters half way through each campaign, buying next to no skills. Whenever you think you might want to buy a skill - look it up on http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Main_Page and see if it's available as a Prophecies skill quest or from a Nightfall hero trainer (they train you for free, as well). Get as much as you can for free, before you start buying. Saves a lot of cash, because those skills start to cost 1K each, eventually.

donjn · Oct 29, 2007, 01:48 PM // 13:48

Man some great advice in here.

Well I am going to keep trying to sell it. I have had no buyers yet but I hope I do soon.

SotiCoto · Oct 29, 2007, 01:50 PM // 13:50

I got two Black Dyes in a single day last Saturday... farming with my Monk. One she got from Gates of Kryta farm... and the other from Corsairs in Zehlon Reach.

It was a crazylucky day for dye.

jackie · Oct 29, 2007, 01:54 PM // 13:54

Gratsi, good spot to start making some nice pile of gold there.

There's something magical about getting a black dye, I still go over-aggro everytime I get one.

tipiak · Oct 29, 2007, 01:57 PM // 13:57

I got my first black dye drop after 27 months and 1050 hours of gameplay. I'm the R10 legendary unlucky grand master. Sell it and buy yourself a nice shiny new armor.

Government Flu · Oct 29, 2007, 02:15 PM // 14:15

I got a black dye my second day playing Guild Wars. I sold it.

To the merchant.

For 1 gold.

Good times! I really don't mind looking back though. Stuff like that just made the game experience more exciting and genuine...the whole exploration aspect. (For instance, I didn't know the merchant ripped you off on dyes.) As for the OP, congrats on a grade-A drop. You can keep it...depending on the amount of quests and what you do with items such as imperial commendations, you should have more than enough gold for armor and keep the dye too.

ValaOfTheFens · Oct 29, 2007, 02:30 PM // 14:30

I gave my 1st black dye away b/c it was clogging up my bag in Pre. >.< I got it my 1st day playing and thinking back I wonder why I didn't just use it on my armor.

Novalon · Oct 29, 2007, 03:36 PM // 15:36

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Originally Posted by donjn

Man some great advice in here.

Well I am going to keep trying to sell it. I have had no buyers yet but I hope I do soon.

If all else fails, sell it to the dye trader. I know you'll make a little less, but as impatient as I am, I find trying to sell items to other players as the most boring thing imaginable.

Time = money, and you should ask yourself if that extra time used to sell to other players is really worth the time you will put in to it.

Shadowfox1125 · Oct 29, 2007, 04:11 PM // 16:11

I recently got a black and white dye on one run farming Elementals on HM. :P

eloc_jcg · Oct 29, 2007, 04:14 PM // 16:14

Sell it. You'll be selling that armor soon enough when you can buy some new stuff, so the dye would be a waste on that armor anyways.

arcady · Oct 29, 2007, 04:20 PM // 16:20

I've never had a black dye drop.

I go with the others who say sell it. It could fund max armor on 2 - 3 characters.

Necromancer armor is already mostly black, so its wasted on them. It would be wasted on just about character at this point in your game experience.

Ekelon · Oct 29, 2007, 05:19 PM // 17:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avarre

The Black Dye Cartel has an NPC that gives out free black dyes in the guild hall.

True story.

WHAT?! Really? Last time I went to the 幸sad guild hall nothing was there (except for afk Cirque). I guess I'll have to try again tonight.

Toutatis · Oct 29, 2007, 06:06 PM // 18:06

Congratulations on your first black dye drop!

Personally, I would sell it to a dye trader. The extra cash will come in handy; as you progress through the game, costs start to increase quite a bit so having an extra injection of raw cash now will help set you up for later.

I also don't particularly like black dye on armor. Black dye is very dark and unless you mix it with a lighter colour, it can end up blacking out a lot of detail on your armor. In my opinion, that ruins the visual effect.

Hannes · Nov 03, 2007, 11:17 PM // 23:17

I've been playing for about 5 months now and I got my first (and sofar, only) black dye last month when my account was about 500hrs old. I've yet to pick up a white dye o_0

A fellow guildie was level 5 n00b, just started the game, and picked up 3 black dyes in a matter of minutes... How does this work? lol

Omniclasm · Nov 03, 2007, 11:22 PM // 23:22

I got my first black dye at level 7 in Pre-Searing. Sold it, and that was my main cash for most of Prophecies. Got another one a year later.

Been farming UW duo, and have gotten 5 in the past 4 days. Go figure.

makosi · Nov 03, 2007, 11:25 PM // 23:25

My guildy got 2 today whilst farming Foundry. Was much more thrilling than getting Titan gems despite the latter being worth more.

Firebaall · Nov 05, 2007, 08:23 PM // 20:23

Heh..

Congrats!

I got one too, in my first day or two of playing GW. I promptly used it on my starter necro gloves. lol

Hey, the merch said it was only worth 1g! *doh*

Tender Wolf · Nov 05, 2007, 10:29 PM // 22:29

Congrats! Something similar happened to me. Before I got my own account I played on my (now ex) boyfriend's, and within a couple of days a black, white, or silver (can't remember which one) dye dropped for me. hehe

Dante the Warlord · Nov 05, 2007, 10:33 PM // 22:33

lol i got my first black dye somewhere during the first month i played on my war. My opinion, sell it!