So i’m a bit of a noob, so even 1 gold is quite a lot of money to me. (Got the game four days ago)
Now I’m a warrior and use heavy armor, and I’ve been saving up for a dye I think looks really really good on heavy armor, gold dye. Golden armor, pretty cool. It was around 1 gold and 50 silver, which I can earn with a bit of hard work.
So after i’d got to 90 silver or so I decided to check the gold dye again in the market.
Suddenly, it’s 4 gold and 50 silver.
The hell!? How did this happen? Does this happen often? Is there any chance of it dropping?
5 gold is simply to much for me to spend on a dye.
Sometimes. Prices can change rapidly for rare items. In this case,
Based on the sudden spike in the price without a decrease in the number of items available, it looks like someone bought up all of the gold dye in an attempt to corner the market.
Sometimes. Prices can change rapidly for rare items. In this case,
Based on the sudden spike in the price without a decrease in the number of items available, it looks like someone bought up all of the gold dye in an attempt to corner the market.
This is my thought. It’s a low supply item, so it’d be easy for someone with a lot of coin to pull off. Given there are no massive swings in buy and sell volume, I suspect this may be the case.
Hold tight OP and keep an eye on the prices. Maybe they’ll go back down to historical norms once the market manipulator sells all of their product. But know there’s always a chance that the prices will stay at their new high levels.
Also, don’t forget that there are nearly 400 different colors in the game and there are many colors that are incredibly similar to one another. For example, fog is a great alternative to white, but is MUCH cheaper (4s for fog dye vs. 6g for white dye). I highly suggest you take a look at what colors are available (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dye#Colors). Perhaps you can find an alternative that will give you the same effect you are looking for for a cheaper price?
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But seriously? Because of one selfish-I-Want-Money guy, I have to either wait for it to drop, or shell up 5 gold? I don’t know if I even want to consider paying if it goes to that greedy sonofagun.
Thanks for the info, though. I’ll look for an alternative, but it just won’t be the same.
Gold dye price seems to be dropping again, but you could always just make a buy offer at the price 1g xxs price that you are happy with and risk free retract it at any time.
The other thing worth mentioning is that a lot of the good colours often have better version that come in non standard names.
So for Black dye you also check Abyss, Celestial for White, etc.
For Gold you should also check the currently cheaper and imo better Illumination dye.
Illumination is great. There are also other ways to get dyes. You can buy packs from the gem store, buy unidentified dyes for around 11s, craft them from the cook craft, there is a chance to harvest them when harvesting cooking nodes like carrots/potatos/etc. I get an unidentified dye about every 15 or 20 harvests.
I tried to manipulate a rare dye a while back as an experiment – the price returned to its old level within 24 hours and there was a greater supply on the TP than before I started.
Hence my advice is to wait OR go for some of the other colours as others have advised; many of them are so close to the “rare” colour you will be really hard pressed to tell the difference and indeed, may find that you prefer them more.
