Glitched Dye I have proof!

I stumbled on this at Kaineng. The chap was trying to sell it.

My Gray dye looks red also. It has for weeks. I think it happened when they updated the dyes so the old and new would stack.

I had some grey vials that looks like that too.

It's the old dissolvant vials that I had in my storage which became like that after the dye-maj.

My grey dye that I bought a few weeks ago looks well...grey.

the red-grey dye has been around since nf release

I bet the "red" gray dyes are actually old dye removers.

Maybe?

Gray is how Arenanet says "Dye Remover" That's why your armor turned yellowish.

thats incorrect, grey dye actually dyes the armour a grey color. and it acts as a dye remover as all armour base colors are now grey..

Technnically no. The armour sold at mechant has just been made so that they sell it dyed grey. The old base colours still exsist, they're just impossible to get.

No, they are all possible to get. Old base colors used to be dyed colors: meaning that they were sold dyed blue, yellow, red, etc. For example, for the Platemail armor, it used to be sold dyed blue, now it's sold dyed gray. To get the old base color, just dye it blue.

The base colour of platemale armour is yellow. -_-

Before the change all armors came pre-dyed from the crafter as well.
Necro armor for example (real basecolor red) was pre-dyed green, warrior-armor (real basecolor yellow) was pre-dyed blue, and so on. By using dye-remover you could simply remove that extra layer and get the real basecolor to display.

After the dye-update the armors still have their old basecolors and still come pre-dyed, but this pre-dye is just gray on all profession's armors.

Several armors have always had spots where the real basecolor would still shine through after you applied dye, for example the "courtly" armor of the female mesmer. Take a closer look at the areas around the gold-applications and you'll notice a lot of green shining through (green being the real basecolor of mesmer-armor).
This still applies to new armors, even to the armors of new professions. Get Elonian armor for the female dervish and have a closer look at the sides of the hood - you'll notice blue-ish spots shining through (blue being the real basecolor of dervish armor).

So...honestly, the real basecolors of armors haven't changed, all they changed were the colors the armors were already pre-dyed with when you got them from the crafter. And instead of dye-remover there's now gray dye

i have a yellow dye that has a merchant value of 25g

/leet

I know neat huh

use brown on warriors and you'll get the original yellow

That's the dye you received from the quest "To Dye For." They made it non-stacking.

That's weird because I did that quest yesterday and got a blue dye and it stacked.

Are you sure? Take a look at your inventory, storage, whatever, because honestly it's not stackable -- the code prohibits it. If it stacked, it's a bloomin' miracle! (I suspect it's probably just in another slot.)

Oh and by the way, the way most people get around the "one odd dye" non-stackability issue is, of course, to use that dye first, thereby tidying things up nicely.

Oh, also: I'll pass along the bug about the dye that isn't the right colour, with thanks for the report.

The dye I got from that quest stacked also. I was happy that it did, so I didn't care to report it or take a screenshot or anything. lol

Huh! Well, looks like we fixed that minor inconvenience, after all! (Learn something every day. Thanks, Programming Team!)

[QUOTE=Gaile Gray]Are you sure? Take a look at your inventory, storage, whatever, because honestly it's not stackable -- the code prohibits it. If it stacked, it's a bloomin' miracle! (I suspect it's probably just in another slot.)

Oh and by the way, the way most people get around the "one odd dye" non-stackability issue is, of course, to use that dye first, thereby tidying things up nicely.


Nope. I had a single blue dye, which was what I got from that quest. It was sat in a slot all on it own. Then one day on my travels, I picked up another blue dye. When I checked my inventory I had a stack of two blue dyes. Something happened, the value of the dye from the quest must have changed.

No idea how, but it did.

Indeed, thanks. I didn't even think about it at the time, but I DO notice when something won't stack. My storage is full and and it would have to be kept on its own in my inventory.