Dye Packs and Bottles

jormunrek

So the tool tip continues to say In your travels you will find dye packs and bottles....

BUT, has anyone actually ever had a dye pack or bottle drop yet?
I haven't and am starting to wonder if this tooltip is incorrect.

If you have please say so.

Jorm

skyewolf1

Nope, never, not once. And I've leveled three toons to 60 :P

imsmithy

Only the ones you get that are bound when you first start a new character , Dyes should really be drops , specially now that they are craft-able , I seriously doubt anybody is buying dye from the zen store , in guild wars they had dyes that dropped with the black being rare and fairly valuable (at least during the time I played), maybe the "In your travels you will find dye packs and bottles" is referring to the ones you can get with the celestial coins or whatever

linusgorp

I was told that there's a magic button on your tool bar, that allows for unlimited dye drops (and other stuff), provided that you have a certain amount of this magic currency..

Maybe that is what they mean with 'drop'?

tang56

I travelled to the Zen store and the AH where they dropped, along with my AD and bank balance.

nikitaoz

You can also get dye bottles with ardent coins. And with tarmalune bars. Not exactly adventurous. But still...
You get one coin every day.
And bars you get by opening lockboxes.
Keys you can buy by exchanging AD with Zen.
One will cost you 38-43k ad depending on exchange rate.

kiralyn

imsmithy wrote: »

I seriously doubt anybody is buying dye from the zen store

I've bought a couple bottles (with exchanged zen, and partially during the pre-launch sale) to finish off a look I was going for. I know there've been bottles in the AH for weeks. And there were a few people doing dyed armor before. So, some people bought them.

nikitaoz wrote: »

You can also get dye bottles with ardent coins. And with tarmalune bars.

Remember, the "dye packs" you get that way aren't customizable. Dye Packs are a specific set of three dyes that are auto-assigned to the three color locations (primary, secondary, trim). Learned that the hard way, when I got an Ardent Coin pack at the end of my second week of play.

kwequa

I'd buy a dye pack if I could dye my companion.

jormunrek

Yeah, I know the different ways to purchase dyes and now make those terrible class (starter gear) color dye packs.

But since there's a tooltip that actually states that you can find them in your travels (not purchase) I was wondering if anybody had gotten them to drop. I have one 60, two in their 50's, one in her 40's and one in her 30's and have yet to see any drop.

But since I haven't done any endgame dungeons I was thinking perhaps they drop there before I assumed it was a misleading tooltip.
Possibly at some point they were going to but then someone higher up thought it would cut into their profits or something.

I've made the class dye packs from alchemy but won't use them because they don't allow primary/secondary/tertiary so they are useless to me...

Jorm

huckaseven

jormunrek wrote: »

I've made the class dye packs from alchemy but won't use them because they don't allow primary/secondary/tertiary so they are useless to me...

Jorm

well, as already mentioned dye packs change all 3 colors but you can recolor certain aspects after applying the packs

jormunrek

huckaseven wrote: »

well, as already mentioned dye packs change all 3 colors but you can recolor certain aspects after applying the packs

Yeah x2 dyes where x1 should only be needed doesn't suit me very well unfortunately.

It would be more reasonable if the dye packs had the three individual colors separate instead of all in one dye.

But to be honest I really wish that they had gone with the dye method that GW2 used. That's even more reasonable.

Jorm

thejadeemperor

jormunrek wrote: »

Yeah, I know the different ways to purchase dyes and now make those terrible class (starter gear) color dye packs.

But since there's a tooltip that actually states that you can find them in your travels (not purchase) I was wondering if anybody had gotten them to drop. I have one 60, two in their 50's, one in her 40's and one in her 30's and have yet to see any drop.

But since I haven't done any endgame dungeons I was thinking perhaps they drop there before I assumed it was a misleading tooltip.
Possibly at some point they were going to but then someone higher up thought it would cut into their profits or something.

I've made the class dye packs from alchemy but won't use them because they don't allow primary/secondary/tertiary so they are useless to me...

Jorm

You find alchemy materials in your travel you can use to craft dyes. In many computer rpg games there are quests you need to "find items/artifacts in your travel" which turn out to be artifact fragments you find in your journey which you can use your crafting skills to fuse together.