Curse

Clawdius_Talonious · Nov 07, 2006, 04:56 PM // 16:56

I bought more dye than I had drop for me

gentrinity · Nov 07, 2006, 05:01 PM // 17:01

played almost for the entire weekend - solid

0 dye dropped lol And my husband was playing as well, he got a total of 1 dye - a yellow...

Havre Fras · Nov 07, 2006, 05:12 PM // 17:12

I got a brown and (I think) an orange too.

Woot.

Dravyn · Nov 07, 2006, 05:21 PM // 17:21

Same here..played the entire weekend and I got one single solitary purple dye drop. My girlfriend worked on saturday, but she played all day sunday with me and got two orange dyes.
Seemed to me to be normal dye drops, because that's about what we normally get in a weekend of play.

Gen Saver · Nov 07, 2006, 05:25 PM // 17:25

played about 10 hours i think got between 20-30 dye's

2 white, 1 black, 2 silver and lots of others

teenchi · Nov 07, 2006, 05:28 PM // 17:28

I guess I got lucky. I only played a total of 4 hours this weekend and got a black dye, couple of purples, a blue and a brown all on the training island.

BeefEater4:20 · Nov 07, 2006, 06:07 PM // 18:07

I spent Friday evening solo farmin for dye just outside kamadan and got 4 dyes (red, 2xblue, brown)

Played Saturday evening and decided to farm for dye in cliffs of Dohjok w/ Dunkaro and got 6 dyes (mostly purple and blue, 1 black, 1 silver)

On Sunday I was finishing Isles of the Dead in Mehtani (sp?) Keys and got 2 dyes (purple and black)

Overall, I felt like the drop rate had increased. It was sporadic though, I'd get a bunch of dyes, then none for awhile, then another bunch. I was very happy to get some black dyes cause I've been playing for just over 2 months now and these are the first black dyes I've ever found.

I probably played for about 12 hours over the weekend, so I'm happy. Sorry to hear alot of other people didn't find many. One thing I did notice was an insanely high drop rate of Istani Keys. I found like 20 over the weekend...

dansamy · Nov 07, 2006, 06:11 PM // 18:11

I got a few dyes. Most of them in a 20 minute Plains of Jarin run with my MM. I'm happy enough.

Theosebes · Nov 07, 2006, 06:42 PM // 18:42

I have seen several threads like this one with people saying they didn't get much in the way of dye drops. Problem is a lot of the people that are complaining farmed in Factions or Prophecies. Since the event was in Elona, it stands to reason that they wouldn't see the dye drops.

As for those in Elona who didn't see the drops, that surprises me. My wife and I played normally almost all weekend only making about 15 runs between the two of us to farm. Like most we farmed the stretch between Champions Dawn and The Astralarium. Over the weekend we got 31 dyes between us. 1 black, 2 white, 3 red, 5 blue, 2 green, 7 brown, 5 orange, 2 yellow, and 4 purple. That nearly doubled our dyes stores.

I'm just glad they stacked

Sir Skullcrasher · Nov 07, 2006, 06:45 PM // 18:45

Funny, i wonder what the next double event will be? Maybe...... Double Material Drops?

wow, 31 dyes that is alot of dyes. I only got total of 6 or 7 from the event and none of the dyes i gotten worth alot of money.

MDeshame · Nov 07, 2006, 06:52 PM // 18:52

Account based.

Played all weekend in Elona, got 2 dye, 1 yellow, 1 purple.
Regardless of what you think, double "insert whatever gimmick here" still translates to 1 drop after every 13984039460947567389475934875 kills.

I get more dye 55'ing in Tyria, or with my MM, while farming crafting mats, then I did this double dye weekend. I'm not so sure this was even an event. I think it was a BS post, to get more people on the servers to test the loads/builds/whatever, seeing how the current set of Alpha/Beta/QA people have no idea on what they should be doing, or even how to do it.

english storm · Nov 07, 2006, 07:21 PM // 19:21

20+ dyes in about 4-5 hours farming them, yeap they dropped lke crazy. You either wasn't on your own or in the wrong spot.

Theosebes · Nov 07, 2006, 07:23 PM // 19:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by english storm

20+ dyes in about 4-5 hours farming them, yeap they dropped lke crazy. You either wasn't on your own or in the wrong spot.

That or using an mm to farm. There is a bug right now that causes minions to take up thier share of drops like henchies do.

Horseman Of War · Nov 07, 2006, 07:26 PM // 19:26

i was thinking the same thing- got one brown near vabbi (spent all weekend getting zhed, margrid, and up into Chantry on one character) and a silver in Plains of Jarin while spending about 4 minutes on my lvl 2 in-waiting Character...

Got halfway to the top of my Lightbringer title on the former, btw- thats a lot of creeps.

Esprit · Nov 07, 2006, 07:26 PM // 19:26

Whether you got more dye or not, double dye means a bunch of people got more dye than usual. Many of those people probably sold to the Dye Trader, thus saturating the market with more dye than usual, prices might even decrease.

You didn't get any dye... whaaaa.

Cherno · Nov 07, 2006, 07:43 PM // 19:43

I was also disappointed in the weekend. Same problem with the key drops weekend, never saw a key drop that whole time. I got maybe 2 dyes this weekend with extensive playing. I got about 15 dyes just doing sentient root farming in plains of jarin during the halloween weekend.

I wish they would bring back double green weekend soon. Now with all these heroes to equip those greens would be really helpful.

dansamy · Nov 07, 2006, 07:50 PM // 19:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theosebes

That or using an mm to farm. There is a bug right now that causes minions to take up thier share of drops like henchies do.

As a MM, I can say this is definitely not true. My greatest source of income is from farming materials to make elonian leather and selling it. My minions have certainly not affected my drop rate.

Theosebes · Nov 07, 2006, 07:53 PM // 19:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by dansamy

As a MM, I can say this is definitely not true. My greatest source of income is from farming materials to make elonian leather and selling it. My minions have certainly not affected my drop rate.

I also play an MM sometimes, and I have not experienced it. I do know people who have however. There is a post on this very site about it, it is a bug, and it is happening. Maybe not all the time to all MMs, but it is happening.

floppinghog · Nov 07, 2006, 08:03 PM // 20:03

i got 12 black dyes during the weekend event

from people and the trader.

i still need a white dye and i refuse to buy it, i need it to drop so i can play wit dye mixes!

samborarocks · Nov 07, 2006, 08:06 PM // 20:06

I dropped all my henchies and heros. Farmed just outside Kamadan.
Netted, 2 black, 1 white, 2 brown, 1 yellow, 4-5 purple, 3-4 blues, 1 red, 2 greens. Oh and as a little bonus, picked up 2 stormbringer staves, and 2 (green) hammers, can't remember the hammer names....

EDIT: and 3 silver dyes

SR