for the love of god, fix dyes

This one has been bugging me a long time. I can't believe they haven't fixed this.

There's a post in general where someone is asking, what color dye do I need to dye my chaos axe blue?

Well, shouldn't it take a blue dye? Nope....either dye remover or red dye to turn a chaos axe blue. Awhaaaaaaa??????!!!!?!?!?!?!?one

My necro: I want to turn his scars orange. Can't freakin do it to save my life, and I've looked at the dye charts. Then the facial scar thing...I can't make it turn ANY color.

Come on Anet. This is easy. Just fix it so that whatever color your dye is, that's the armor, regardless of profession, armor type, whatever.

Boring.

It's the way Anet made it so deal with it.

they also made it so that you could by sup vigs and abs for 125 gold.

they fixed that

and other things that needed fixing......that they made it that way

This is a suggestion forum. I'm making a suggestion.

Deal with that.

They had to do a Merchant reset because...ECTOS WERE AT 24K EACH AND BLACK DYES WERE SELLING AT 20K EACH.

Why would they need to change some "certain" item's dying property just because you can't use the dye chart?

Have you ever thought that Chaos Axes dye weirdly because.. theyre CHAOS axes?

Did you ever think those are the *ONLY* two items in-game that dye weird? Fellblades dye oddly sometimes and most swords only have their hilts dyed. Dyeing isn't supposed to be perfect on one dye, that's why they have combos, mixes, recipes, etc. Chaos Axe dyes opposite and Scar Patterns are kinda weird, but just use a dye chart. It really is only two items. I would understand that you would want a fix if it was like black dye made it yellow or pink, but Chaos Axes glow so obviously they're going to dye quite differently. Every trying dying a Light Saber ?

EDIT: Haggard beat me to the point on Chaos Axes, lol.

And its a good one. It's not sexy, but it has the potential to be It would be nice if Anets color scheme applied to undyed equipment acted as a base color. Translation: color applied to undyed armor should act as though it were applied to white fabric...if thats what you're saying. I mean, we can't get a white base, so it falls to trial and error to get the right color a lot of times.

/signed. it really bites that I can never seem to get white armor when combining red blue and green base dyes. I mean: this is fashion, not chemestry! colors don't MUTATE!!!

it's a hidden moneysink

then "un" hide it. Question to all. What are the reasons why black dye is the undisputed dye of choice?

1. It's rare. Ok; thats true. Black is harder to find than any other dye.

2. It looks cool. MiB FTW!

3. When you dye something in black, it actually dyes black!

Repairing the color scheme would improve the prices of all dyes. Red, blue yellow; all of them. Dye combinations become that much more important so you don't look like a clown and dye prices explode as more people use them, and more of them.

my 'pink' monk tats are fuscia. My green necrotic armor is pea green.

Red warrior armor.....yay came out red!

It shouldn't take dye charts that took insane amounts of empirical testing (and still dont seem to work) to do something that should be VERY SIMPLE

/signed

/half-signed

At least for the scar patterns and such.. it makes no sense that the facial scars dye differently than all the rest of them. The fact that different things dye differently is fine, but they should at least be uniform to themselves

notice all the dye question threads currently open?

useless, pointless and unnecessary to arbitrarily throw something in that makes no sense

how about when you create an assassin, you really get a ranger with warrior skills? the fun part is spending a few hours sorting out what is really what in the forums!

Too bad not the whole armor piece becomes black when you apply it on. Well, most armor pieces anyways. Yes, I am a bit sour because I wasted 5 Vials of Black Dye on Female Droknar's Gladiator's Armor.

/sign

It truly should be true to real-world colour schemes.

And they really need a white dye. I have several sets of armour I would love to have dyed white. Not silver, not the crappy mix that turns out cream, but a real, authentic white!

/sign
he has a point in that why even bother labeling them as colors, if thats not what really happens.
bascially, anet could make one universal "random" dye, that dyes any random color, and you dont find out what the hell color it is, untill you use it. because at this current stage in the game, its so f-ed up that you might as well close your eyes and spin a color wheel to guess what you'd be getting...that at least has more consistency than reading the color of the dye listed in the name.

/signed

Anet, you could improve how things mix while you are it are at it.

/half-signed

Chaos Axes Should be left how they are, Necro Tat's and so on should be changed.
for the people that can't read a Dye Chart...
http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/5...haosaxe3jr.jpg

while we're at it why not make a Color thing like the Guild Emblemer.. I think that would be awesome to be able to temporarily mix dyes and apply them to armor to see how the final result would look before investing 50k+ on black dyes and other dyes, just to have it not come out the color you wanted. (make it only last for a minute if everyone else can see it, or make it so only you can see it, like the guild emblemer).

I think i mentioned it before to another person, dont call God in such an issue, unless u mean gw gods.

Apart from that, id say that there should be a normal dye trader, but with a dye trader, just that he will work in another way.

It could work like this : u take off an item from ur equipment(as u might want to dye a item u cannot use) , and then there would be a dye chart , from which u choose the colour u want for the item. The dye guy would then calculate the price for example if u want that orange(just guessing here) , u need to pay for a dye, that costs for both red and yellow. So if red and yellow would cost like 200 each at trader each(not together), then u would buy that dye mix for 400 gold, having sure that u bought the right one.The dyes would be already mixed(mixture of max 4 dyes, min. 2). While buying it, you could see the item colour when u click on a colour in the dye chart. I think i didnt mess up anything in explaining that.