No Black Dye Drop Yet...

Senron Rayne

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

Ninjas of the Leaf

E/Mo

i just recently started a new char, and got a black dye drop off a lvl 1 devourer! woo! it made me quite happy, and also confused?

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

just started new character and got first black at 19 minutes getting scale fins for a belt pouch trade.

camron marie

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2005

NATO

W/R

bet i got u all bet 600 + hours 2 months and 0 black die 4 asended charr and a 3 aborts
.... saw 1 drop for some1 eles they died .. all died in fact but me, i stole cause they die:P my roomate get mad when i remind him ... it was his:P

Damon Windwalker

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Wandering Gits

4 characters played all the way through - 300+ hours on each - I've seen exactly 1 black drop - and that was outside of Fort Ranick while doing the Vanguard Equipment mission on my 3rd character.

Maxiemonster

Maxiemonster

There is no spoon.

Join Date: Jun 2005

Netherlands

Mo/

Had 2 Black dyes till now with my lvl 14 Character in Pre-Searing His armor loves the Black dye (mixed with Silver dye)!

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

i now have the big 20

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

3 days or so ago I got my first Black Dye drop (~270 hours) in FoW.

sledgeunderhill

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Gathering of Friends [GoF]

last night on my second account, i got a black dye at 8 hours 50-some minutes of age. =D

1BUnnY1

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

R/

I have played for like 5 hours, and I have gotten 2 dyedrops so far (purple and blue I think... ), and bought some other dyes for 100g/each (no blacks or silvers though), But can anyone explain why teh black ones are the most expensive ones? Not everybody wants to be black right?

Sorry for bad English...

VGJustice

VGJustice

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Tyria, cappin' ur bosses

Boston Guild [BG]

R/W

ya know, I've got almost 700 hours logged under my belt, and I've only ever seen a black dye drop once. For my guild leader. That's it, nada for me. Unhealthy amounts of Silver, even an ecto (on my first run through FoW), but never a Black. Or a Sup Abs or a Sup Vigor come to think of it....

Cjlr

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

SMS

E/Me

I got a black dye once and the whole group burst into applause (after the battle, mind you)...

It's 4 and counting for me, so about 1 every 100 hours.

But the best thing ever was that sup vigour...

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by VGJustice
Or a Sup Abs or a Sup Vigor come to think of it....
i got a superior vigor once.........BEFORE they made getting it guaranteed when you salvage it.

i got the biggest pile of nice crafting materials you could ask for .....17 of them......whimper

VGJustice

VGJustice

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Tyria, cappin' ur bosses

Boston Guild [BG]

R/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Loviatar
i got a superior vigor once.........BEFORE they made getting it guaranteed when you salvage it.

i got the biggest pile of nice crafting materials you could ask for .....17 of them......whimper
My very first Superior Divine Favor rune went that path. I remember actually crying, because I died, saw it, spawned, repeated those steps about 5-6 more times, got it, identified it, cheered, salvaged it, cried myself to sleep. I think it was the next update that they introduced the Garanteed thing. I wasn't a happy little Monk user, let me tell you T.T

Snake

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

MERC

R/E

i saw about 50+ectos drop, and only saw3 black dye drop in my life,

nytestalker

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Ministry of Love

W/Mo

my first and only black dye drop - 450 hours.

my wifes first sup vig drop - < 20 hours.


I was so mad....

Tiq

Tiq

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

Kryptonian Krew

W/Mo

Just got my second black dye drop, playing with my female necro in pre-searing.

Queenie

Queenie

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

I got my first black dye drop in Sorrows Furance

.defekt

.defekt

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ex Talionis [Law], Schindlers Fist [ouch]

I made a char yesterday, level 6 at the moment, and I've got 3 black drops so far, on this particular char. ^^

1BUnnY1

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by BWoods
Just got a black dye drop yesterday, in pre-searing of course.

Dye drops are much much more common in pre, Spiders near Fort Ranik drop them very often.
Spiders only drop leggs when i'm playing...

The fire bandits were the only ones I ever got a dye from. (a blue and a purple one)

And I saw my first black dye drop ever . SAW.

IMehler

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

i have the triple playtime of you and black dye only dropped once in ascalon.

wilebill

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

At retail release, my first char picked up two black dyes in pre-searing, and a third somewhere along the way. Since then, leveling up two more characters, I have not found any more black dye. Plenty of silvers, but no blacks.

Kool Pajamas

Kool Pajamas

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Maryland

Mage Elites [MAGE]

In the last two days I've found 2 black dyes! After about 1000+ hours of playing.

dont feel no pain

dont feel no pain

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Uk,Wales

i've found 10+ in my time , farming etc.

burai

burai

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Fishermen's Haven

W/

I seem to have been getting a lot more black dye dropping lately. Obviously I don't know the mechanics of the game, but it almost seems like Anet 're-stock' items periodically.

Evil Hypnotist

Evil Hypnotist

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

I Dragon I [PAIN]

I think black dyes are like buses, when you get one the others will follow soon after. Done 300 hours odd, completed it twice and have had dozens of famring runs in sorrows furnace before I had my first drop. Two days later I got another pre-searing. Life is like that I guess

mikysee

mikysee

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Ive played 650 hrs and have 7-8 black dyes drop for me.

Jessyi

Jessyi

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mo/

Today, in my 734th hour of play, while fighting giants outside of the Deldrimor War Camp in Snake Dance........a black dye drop. The first ever.

When I woke up in the hospital, the doctor said I had suffered 12 consecutive heart attacks.

-Jessyi

kg_lildude1

kg_lildude1

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Lionheart Braves [LHB]

W/

i've had 0 black dye drops in over 800 hours of playing, which imo is rediculus, i've had 27 black dyes, drop for OTHER people (while in my party), none for me

i've had about 250+ drops of every other dye color.

but since you say EVENTUALLY i will get one, i'll just keep chugging

I pwnd U

I pwnd U

God of Spammers

Join Date: Oct 2005

in the middle of a burning cornfield...

Scars Meadows [SMS] (Officer)

ive still only gotten one. i was in a group doing a kyrtan mission and this chick got black dye. it was her second in 2 days. freaking bullshit. the rest of us were like wtf we havent got black dye in forever. freaking sucked cause thats only the 3rd time ive seen black dye dropped and only one was for me. freaking sucked ass.

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

People who've never gotten a Black Dye...

how long have you spent in Pre-searing?

I pwnd U

I pwnd U

God of Spammers

Join Date: Oct 2005

in the middle of a burning cornfield...

Scars Meadows [SMS] (Officer)

i spent 2 weeks in presearing farming for black dye i got nothin, jack squat. didnt even get a silver dye for taht fact. and yes i was farming black bears.

Ghalheon

Ghalheon

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

France

The Broken Arms

N/Mo

2 characters level 20 and no one yet... BTW I got some silver dyes here and there pre searing and after, I don't recall how many, around 5-10 but still waiting my first black drop.

Dahnel

Dahnel

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Rt/Me

i have found 6 black dyes in my 1000 hours of playing ! mostly from low lvl creatures ...2 from lvl 15 ettins, 1 from a skeleton sorceror at gates of kryta, 2 from charr and 1 from a lvl 5 stone elemental outside sardelac

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Eight black dies at the time of the market upheavel which I sold for an outlandish amount of gold. Two more since then. I've used about a half dozen silvers and still have 24 in inventory.

Just luck my friend.

xxhell

xxhell

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

northend blvds

E/Me

bad luck for you.. lol first dye i found was black followed by 2 silvers in the same run.. ive found prolly 5 black dyes.. dont count on them dropping spend your money and buy one lol

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by quickmonty
Eight black dies at the time of the market upheavel which I sold for an outlandish amount of gold. Two more since then. I've used about a half dozen silvers and still have 24 in inventory.

Just luck my friend.
my best yet is my ele/necro which got her first black at 19 minutes into the game from a river scale TAD while i was getting scale fins for the collectors beltpouch trade.

i sold it in post sear for starting money and am back to 19 blacks

total dyes including sold oranges and others about 450 - 500

i sold over 100 oranges and still have about 30 (got 2 more yesterday orange of course)

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by I pwnd U
i spent 2 weeks in presearing farming for black dye i got nothin, jack squat. didnt even get a silver dye for taht fact. and yes i was farming black bears.
Black bears? They don't drop crap!!! (except Bear Pelts). I never farm Bears or Wolves.

I have no idea what creature drops the most dye, but I've gotten most my dye (and all my Black) from farming Grawl.

yukimura_gw

yukimura_gw

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Quebec

Rt/Me

The biggest Dye dropper I have found are the Gargoyle in the
catacomb. Got a lot of silver from them.

I sold my first black 50G.

Plz don't rip off newbie anymore. ^_^

Rel

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

i chill in id1 ha

Guess Who Fails At Game Balance [izzy]

E/Me

RIP OFF NOOBS IN PRE ASCALON FTW
sike
found 3 blacks over a 2000 hour playing period

Mister Overhill

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Tampa, Florida

Sticks and Stones

R/Rt

Found a few blacks early on while bringing my characters through pre-searing, and only one since. I don't farm though, just play the game. One of my daughters found one in pre-searing and sold it to the merchant for one gold before I told her what it was worth -- not a happy camper.