Dye Drops

pegasux

pegasux

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Mexico < PUKE >

Elite Rogues Inc. [ER]

Anyone notice that dyes drop A LOT more now? I farmed Hydras and Griffs yesterday and got 7 dyes in 3 runs. 1 black and 1 silver the rest just junk.

xxSilhouette

xxSilhouette

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lost in the sands of time...

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

R/Rt

Yes i have noticed this, I have only gotten one black dye through the whole game but here recently i have gotten many silver and purples.

I'm glad though beacuse i save them and when I want a change for my armor i can experiment with colors

Griff Mon

Griff Mon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

In the Elfen Forests of Washington State

Damage Radius

N/

I am not sure what the formula is but I do farm in areas where dye drops are something I am out for. To me it seems that dye drops are triggered by some sort of random generator like 1 out of 100 or so kills and then the color of dye is also triggered by another percentage of dye drops. I sell everything except silver and black so I don't really know what the odds are on the less valuable colors but my ratio of silver to black in storage is about 4 to 1.

edit: Well right after I posted this I went out on one of my standard farming loops and where I usually average one or two dye drops I got four this time.

Diablo???

Diablo???

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Seattle

SPQR

N/R

It's a good time to start mix-and-match for dye varieties again.

pegasux

pegasux

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Mexico < PUKE >

Elite Rogues Inc. [ER]

yeah i got a ton of dye in storage and went through a ton to make some weird colors...lol. I never got black dye until the last 2 weeks where I have gotten 3. Sold all of them cause I don't like black.

xxSilhouette

xxSilhouette

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lost in the sands of time...

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

R/Rt

i did the same - i saved up and had around 10-15 of each color and about 5 silvers - i ended up mixing colors and using them (didnt like some of them so it was just a waste) but i had fun anyway.

linz85

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

notts uk

UndergroundUk (uguk)

E/Mo

well if it has increased w00t0r, coz i love saving dyes. already got over 300

xxSilhouette

xxSilhouette

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lost in the sands of time...

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

R/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by linz85
well if it has increased w00t0r, coz i love saving dyes. already got over 300
wow that is a LOT of dye - grats!!

pegasux

pegasux

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Mexico < PUKE >

Elite Rogues Inc. [ER]

lol yeah kinda crazy...lol. i have about 40 dyes only. mostly red blue and silver

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by xxSilhouette
wow that is a LOT of dye - grats!!
well i just ran through about 250+ drops in presear and got

from aloes 118 unnatural seeds/and junk
from gargoyles bunch of skulls/junk
spiders webs/spider legs/junk

total dyes were 2 oranges TOTAL

still have several hundred in storage includung 16 black and 40+ silver but still...

xxSilhouette

xxSilhouette

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lost in the sands of time...

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

R/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Loviatar
well i just ran through about 250+ drops in presear and got

from aloes 118 unnatural seeds/and junk
from gargoyles bunch of skulls/junk
spiders webs/spider legs/junk

total dyes were 2 oranges TOTAL

still have several hundred in storage includung 16 black and 40+ silver but still...
That's nuts...Once i created an ele and went through and killed everything in lakeside or whatever its called right outise of ascalon, and each time i got one dye - i did the same with the catacombs and got 1-2 each time. I got very bored with it though.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by xxSilhouette
That's nuts...Once i created an ele and went through and killed everything in lakeside or whatever its called right outise of ascalon, and each time i got one dye - i did the same with the catacombs and got 1-2 each time. I got very bored with it though.
exactly my point.

presear used to be a gold mine for dyes.

my best was a black at 19 minutes on a new character.

also the above was on 3 characters from just starting to level 9 and spread out so as not to kick in the anti farming bit

bad luck yes but this much?

Mavrik

Mavrik

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

Alaska

I have gotten more dye in the past couple of days then I got in a while. A red, 2 yellow and 1 silver. I haven't gotten this many dye drops since Pre Searing were I left with like 10+ dyes including 2 blacks having been there for 2 days.

Keyote

Keyote

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

All I ever get is purple

I started collecting them to see how much of each I got, and my purples are up to 30 with less than 10 of everything else. Still never had a black.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Keyote
All I ever get is purple

I started collecting them to see how much of each I got, and my purples are up to 30 with less than 10 of everything else. Still never had a black.
i am now over 150 unnatural seeds plus junk with zero dyes.

will now try my old favorite dye area

pegasux

pegasux

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Mexico < PUKE >

Elite Rogues Inc. [ER]

wow i didn't know there were dye farmers in pre.

General Wise Guy

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

Gresham, Oregon

Burning Sun Ninjas

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by pegasux
wow i didn't know there were dye farmers in pre.
lol ... yup and u can find a lot of noobs there that sell black dye for like 150g and crap like that.

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

dye drops are completely random. you have the same chance of getting a black dye from a level 24 charr as from a level 0 river skale tad. i don't know if there's been a dye drop increase, but my experiences of farming presearing has been kinda streaky: sometimes i can get a whole bunch in one run (got 1 black and 1 silver today, on the same run), and sometimes i can farm forever and never get anything.

EDIT: on the topic of noobs, there's one guy who tried to buy my black dye for 500 gold. when i told him its true value, he babbled something about 500 gp being the "market value" or some other nonsense.

Mavrik

Mavrik

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

Alaska

market value for black is over 6k. I bought one for 6.5k the other day when the trader was asking for 7.5k.

pegasux

pegasux

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Mexico < PUKE >

Elite Rogues Inc. [ER]

That's hilarious! farm the noobs.

Quote:
Originally Posted by General Wise Guy
lol ... yup and u can find a lot of noobs there that sell black dye for like 150g and crap like that.

Sents

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Various

E/Me

I have noticed an increase in my dye drops as well. I also noticed, with more than a little dissapointment, that silver dye looks more like black than black dye on my ele armor, why cant they make black, black, they certainly charge enough for the notion of it, but the color is a defintite 'purple' hue. A little off topic srry. Been bugging me for a few days. Thx for the indulgence.

Hailfall

Hailfall

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Germany

Phantom Commando

N/

I honestly think it is very disappointing to see that people just love to exploit the 'Newbies' who have no idea how much the Dye trader sells dyes for and sell them for 150g because of lack of that knowledge.

When I see newbies sell black dyes for that low prices I tell them that they should save it up for Post Searing and then sell it to the merchant since it is worth way more then they ask.

And yes I have noticed the frequent dye drops as well.

Shadowfox1125

Shadowfox1125

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

PST

W/

Yeah, suddenly there's an increase in dyes, but I don't sell dyes unless they're silvers or blacks.. Only ones worth selling IMO. I use the others for fun.. Dye mixing and giving them to guildies.

Leon_Ux-ixen

Leon_Ux-ixen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

America, how I dispise it...

Order Of The Mystic Phoenix

R/Mo

my question is why do we charge so much for dye? We all use it and it has all the same purpose I belive the prices should be lower. It makes no sence for black dye to cost 7k when it does the same job as blue which is like 100gold.

art_

art_

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Leon_Ux-ixen
my question is why do we charge so much for dye? We all use it and it has all the same purpose I belive the prices should be lower. It makes no sence for black dye to cost 7k when it does the same job as blue which is like 100gold.
Supply and Demand.

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

I got 2 blacks yesterday plus 5 or 6 orange.
I want blue damn in

noober

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Somewhere in the Universe

Templar Knights of Balthazar

Mo/

I think I may have you all beat...

And please note that all these are in Pre-Searing. Figured I'd go public with what I had in Pre.

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j0j081

j0j081

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Rockford, IL

FRAG

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hailfall
I honestly think it is very disappointing to see that people just love to exploit the 'Newbies' who have no idea how much the Dye trader sells dyes for and sell them for 150g because of lack of that knowledge.

When I see newbies sell black dyes for that low prices I tell them that they should save it up for Post Searing and then sell it to the merchant since it is worth way more then they ask.

And yes I have noticed the frequent dye drops as well.
yeah when I first got the game (not long ago) I used a black dye on a crappy shield then had a heart attack a couple days later when I found out how much it worth.

grikdog

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

To me it seems like all of the colors (except black) drop about the same amount. I have been saving my dyes for awhile and I have between 8 and 12 of every color except only 1 black. I will have to wait and see if my ratios change when I get about 100 or so. Silver doesn't seem particularly rare so I wonder why it costs more?

just call me jimmy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

just call me jimmy

W/Mo

wow that previous post about noobs selling Black Dye for 150g. Dood you have a real gameing issues, if you would get someone to sell you a black dye for 150g. Also Please do not say thts what he ofered, he/she was prob asking people what they were worth.
That is worse than any trade scammer, you blatently took advantage of a new player. While I know your responce and maybe others will "hey seller beware" Knowing it's value and hanging around in Pre (which is obvious by your comments, is what you were doin) to take advantage of new players.
Is Brutal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Skawtt

Skawtt

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Oregon

W/N

I to have noticed a somewhat better drop rate on dye lately. Used to seem like once in a great while a dye would drop now its almost like one or two drops every one. I save every dye I loot in the bank just in case someone in the guild needs/wants some dye (except my black I hold that for my Cantha armor) Ive been "lucky" with the black only bought one to finish off my Droks Plate set....way back when people first starting getting there w/o runners.

6 black
17 silver
13 blue
12 green
22 red
29 orange
26 yellow
29 purple