Two of the same color?
Hi Vivik,
I’m sorry to hear that you found a duplicate dye to be frustrating. The Dye Packs are, indeed, random. However, you can sell your duplicate dye on the Trading Post or put it in your account bank to use on another character.
When you consider that dyes can be bought and sold on the trading post, buying dyes via gems is essentially another way of exchanging gems for gold. The difference is that you don’t know how many you are going to get. I’m pretty sure that dyes and minis are the only things in the gem shop that can be traded in any way to other players. In the first beta weekend event, dyes could not be traded, so I guess them being a gem shop item made more sense then. Enough people complained about it that it was changed, though. As the system works now, buying them in the gem shop is basically just gambling to win something that you could just buy on the trading post – at least, assuming that the dye you want is available there.
In short, if you want to get a specific dye with gems, your best bet is to exchange the gems for gold and then just buy the dye on the trading post. Just make sure it’s actually on the trading post, first.
Therefore we proceed to write a sig.
Do the ‘unidentified dyes’ on the trading post actually get sold?
Do the ‘unidentified dyes’ on the trading post actually get sold?
Absolutely. I sell them all the time.