Curse

Greygon · Oct 31, 2006, 10:38 PM // 22:38

I have been playing since Betas and I have had THREE blacks drop the entire time...

THREE! In a what two years! THREE I TELL YA!

I did get a White drop on day two of NF though...

gamecube187 · Oct 31, 2006, 10:43 PM // 22:43

Oh awsome! I need to get more dyes so I can dye my stuff, but I'm too poor to afford it.

Hopefully I'll get a lot of dyes this weekend!

Clawdius_Talonious · Oct 31, 2006, 10:48 PM // 22:48

I got one black dye in my first 2000 hours of playtime, and I've gotten four more in my third 1000 hours, so it really is randomized like mad. I've already gotten one white dye, when they were still selling for 17k or so... However I was a victim of the bug that wasn't allowing the outpost after gates of desolation to load. I wasn't just stuck outside the area, I actually loaded enough that I was INSIDE the zone and would log in to that character to be booted out. There wasn't any notification for me when the bug was fixed, so by the time I logged him back in white was down to 12k, so I didn't even bother selling it

Ahhh well, I probably wasn't going to sell it anywhere I guess...

Seltack · Oct 31, 2006, 10:51 PM // 22:51

Dye drops are odd. Had 2 blacks since release then three in the week before nightfall. Couldn't sell them for slightly below the trader price, hung onto them and now they'll be even more worthless. Oh well, black dyed paragon here I come I guess.

Good weekend though as I want lots of dyes, however a double (or x10) insignia weekend would be better.

ValaOfTheFens · Oct 31, 2006, 10:57 PM // 22:57

*sniffle*

Darn Elonians!!

I've gotten 3 Black dyes so far and all of them were in Pre-Searing. Seriously. I threw them away cuz I didn't have enough room in my bag and I didn't know the value or purpose of Dye at the time. *sigh*

Lately I've gotten alot of Silver Dye. 2 over the weekend alone.

0mar · Oct 31, 2006, 11:02 PM // 23:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theus

White/Black dyes drop at like what?

a 0.000001% Chance?

I've played this game for nearly 1500 hours.I have never had a black dye drop for me.

I've only had 1 black dye drop for me in over 700 hours of play

Malice Black · Nov 01, 2006, 12:21 AM // 00:21

Aww poor people

I've had 2 whites 1 black and every other colour except silver since NF went live...shame the bastard things wont stack.

Spader · Nov 01, 2006, 12:52 AM // 00:52

well this weekend should be "to dye for"

on a serious note this might get the dye market to crash like the rare materal trader has over the last few months.

Lynxius · Nov 01, 2006, 12:58 AM // 00:58

In my entire gameplay only 2 black dyes droped for me [ one in UW while dualing, and another at those low level gangsters in Shing jea while Barrage farming Orbs when we didnt know there were orb quests the next day].
And recently a white dye droped while farming Orr emblems for Halloween.
Sold it for about 25k before price droped to 11k like it is now ^____^

Anyway geting back on topic:

This event actually sounds pretty interesting.

This is Anets Atempt at making Dyes even more accessible to the average player perhaps?

I apreciate this.

Sir Skullcrasher · Nov 01, 2006, 01:04 AM // 01:04

would dye prices actually drop because of this event?

VitisVinifera · Nov 01, 2006, 01:06 AM // 01:06

since we are all comparing played time vs black dyes.......I'm around 2500 hours and 6 or 7 blacks.

And while for me double dyes aren't something to jump and shout about, considering all the new gray suits of armor I'm seeing, the timing is pretty good.

natuxatu · Nov 01, 2006, 01:08 AM // 01:08

i've gotten a few black dyes. I'd like another green weekend also but this is cool and doesn't take away from me doing what i'd normally do.

Farm Dye/Lightbringer/Sunspear Points.. so it's all good

shaolin mind trick · Nov 01, 2006, 01:12 AM // 01:12

I absolutely love playing around with dye combos, so I'm definately looking foreward to this one

Even though it isn't that big of a deal, would have liked to have seen the double dye in Tyria and Cantha too...

Malice Black · Nov 01, 2006, 01:50 AM // 01:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir Skullcrasher

would dye prices actually drop because of this event?

Yes, since dyes won't stack many will flog the low end colours straight to the trader. Even if I get more blacks/whites they will go straight to trader it's too much effort to sell to a player for an extra 500g-1k

Daniel__ · Nov 01, 2006, 01:59 AM // 01:59

lol should have read this thread 1 hour ago, i just dyed my whole armor white lol

Linksys · Nov 01, 2006, 04:23 AM // 04:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by ValaOfTheFens

*sniffle*

Darn Elonians!!

I've gotten 3 Black dyes so far and all of them were in Pre-Searing. Seriously. I threw them away cuz I didn't have enough room in my bag and I didn't know the value or purpose of Dye at the time. *sigh*

Lately I've gotten alot of Silver Dye. 2 over the weekend alone.

It's alright, I've made that mistake too with my first Ecto drop. I didn't know what it was for and sold it to the regular merchant. It didn't occur to me to at least sell it to the rare materials trader at the time.

As for the double dye drop weekend, I hope it doesn't interfere with other drops. Like what if it makes greens a tad bit less likely to drop?

What I'd like to see is a black and white dye triple drop weekend to get more of those out in the trade. Then hopefully people won't have to pay so much for them.

Hockster · Nov 01, 2006, 05:02 AM // 05:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theus

White/Black dyes drop at like what?

a 0.000001% Chance?

I've played this game for nearly 1500 hours.I have never had a black dye drop for me.

I've had three whites drop since I started my Elonan ranger on Friday.

3200 hours of game play on my main account, gotten well over two dozen blacks dropped.

Oh a GW forum · Nov 01, 2006, 07:29 AM // 07:29

Looking foward to cheap blackdyes for my primeval

garethporlest18 · Nov 01, 2006, 08:47 AM // 08:47

I've gotten over 120 Silver and 20 or so Black Dye drops since I started playing 16 months ago. No Whites so far, but two Brown. I'm hoping I can stock up on Blue since that is what I dye most of my armor.

Jongo River · Nov 01, 2006, 11:22 AM // 11:22

I've had a couple of silver and browns since Nightfall and one white, which I sold to the trader for 37K, a couple of hours before the price crashed.

Never had black, though. Fingers crossed.