How many dyes are there in guild wars 2

As ridiculous as it sounds, it works. Characters which are 3 years old, get a dye for their birthday and every following year. Those dyes allow you to select from very exclusive selections. That way, I have obtained the Shadow Abyss Dye, which would cost gold normally. Those dyes are never tradeable, but if you make your pick with caution, you can save a lot of money.

Dye Selection for the 3rd birthday of your character Dye Selection for the 4th birthday of your character Dye Selection for the 5th birthday of your character Again, those are for characters, not accounts.

The more old characters you own, the more dyes you can get. But for someone who just started the game, this might look not so lucrative I love to collect dyes myself I just like to have as many options as possible and I found, having as many characters as possible is the most important thing about collecting dyes.

Unfortunatly you have to wait for all the Birthdays :POther than that I like to use gw2efficiency to check which dyes I'm missing and which ones are the cheapest and then I just buy a handfull of cheap dyes every then and now. But at that point you'll have a decent array of dyes available! So I used to call myself a quaint dye collector with a lore problem. Back in the day you used to have to have dyes open on each character to use them so I had characters with different dyes because they ALL had to have options.

When they made it so that dyes were account wide I was SO HAPPY and as a result they said 'hey so for every duplicate you have we'll give you an unidentified dye! Feel free to PM it to me. Not sure if it was you or some one else but thanks for the two packages which I forwarded to my wife.

I mailed you her account name, thank you. One thing to consider is that a lot of rare dyes are very bright, which means they don't look good together unless you're going for a very colourful character.

It might be better to get one rare dye in a favourite colour and then cheaper ones to go with it. Also if you're not already aware you can preview all the dyes you don't have in game using the dye menu.

If you experiment you can often find cheaper alternatives. So that wasn't me, but I'm so happy that people sent you things for her! I've just sent her dyes to go through at her leisure. Whatever she doesn't need once it's opened can be sold or tossed into the Mystic Forge for chances at better dye!

Some of the rare dyes are IMO hype. Take Permafrost. I get that some people want it because it's so brilliantly, blindingly white and that it's rare and super-expensive. But when I've previewed it on armor it's so white that it nukes so much detail and doesn't look good to me. I'm happy with White or Celestial, and if I ever somehow randomly got Permafrost I'd sell it in a heartbeat. Some of the ultra-dark dyes are so dark to my old eyes that they look pretty much the same.

Bottom line, try not to pine after a dye only because it's rare. Find what YOU love or in this case, what your wife loves. I happen to love how any of the Enameled dyes look and am saving up for them. For some of us it's about the collection aspect, and for some, it's about the options, while for others it's purely about the usefulness. Some of the dyes are so oversaturated that they look ridiculous on most armor Those Shadow dyes are ridiculously dark The permafrost dyes are blindingly bright but there are a few things that wouldn't look as amazing without them to some people.

It's all about what you're after, and since it's your character and your account or in this case, your wife's! Witch of Doom. There are also cases where a expensive dye is the exact same color as a cheaper dye for certain materials or very close to the same color and then there is the issue of dye panel versus reality Dye panel vs.

I have spent so long looking at my panel getting JUST the right shade of something only to find out that it doesn't work when out in the world and it is maddening. There are four ways to preview specific colors:. Players can experiment with many different combinations of dye in order to produce the most desired result. To do this:. Colors can be placed into favorites by right-clicking the requested dye. Dyes can be organized by hue , material , and set.

Since the release of Heart of Thorns, dyes can be salvaged for pigment of their corresponding color. The quality of the salvaging kit does not matter. The pouches of pigments can be used by Scribes and Artificers. Category : Dyes. Crimson Lion Dye Kit. Celebratory Dye Pack 3. Deathly Dye Kit. Flame Dye Kit. Frost Dye Kit. Glint's Winter Dye Kit. Lion's Arch Commemorative Dye Kit. Lion's Arch Survivors Dye Kit. Metallurgic Dye Kit.

Toxic Dye Kit. Taimi's Dye Kit. Blue Shift Dye Kit. Jubilant Dye Pack 4. Mad King Dye Kit. Shadow Dye Kit. Winter Chimes Dye Kit. Bloodstone Dye Kit. Primordus Dye Kit. Exuberant Dye Kit 5. If you already have the same dyes unlocked on multiple characters, when you log in on additional characters, you will receive one unidentified dye for each duplicate dye already unlocked on your account.

With dyes becoming account unlocks, the demand for dye will decrease and unidentified dyes will no longer drop as loot but will still be available from the Mystic Forge and select in-game rewards. Both specific colors of dye and unidentified dyes will still be tradable and available on the Trading Post, and hue-specific dyes can still be crafted.

The process for identifying unidentified dyes will remain the same. A new section of the updated Hero Panel will be devoted to dyes.