Guild Wars 2

One issue with gw2 is it’s not as alt-friendly as it could be. For example, while leveling an alt, players will have to re-unlock any and all dyes they had on previous characters all over again. While this may be ok for the first or maybe even second alt, by the third, a feeling of tediousness will often set in. I remember originally, A-net, you had plans to have dyes be unlocked across all characters upon consumption. While I can’t recall what your reasons where for changing your minds, I believe this was a mistake.

To compromise, an upgrade should be purchasable in the gemstore that does exactly this: make all dyes unlocked by all one’s characters available to the rest. This item would fit in the ideology of being a purely cosmetic upgrade and convenience item, just like the unlimited mining tools. I would imagine this item would cost around 800-1200 gems to be fair.

Originally it was planned to get dye through dye seeds in your home instance once every 24hrs. So since it took that long to gather dye they planned it to be account bound. When they made the switch to how it is now they changed it to soulbound.

I do agree, it really does sucks for those with alts. I, myself have 8 characters (for each profession) and it is annoying not having all the dyes I have on some of my other characters when I switch them around. So I am all for buying a 800gem item to have all unlocked dyes shared.

However since they do make money off of the new dyes in the gem store Frost & Flame, Venom, Toxic that those special one can remain soulbound so that this new item doesn’t affect the sales of the new dyes.

Shades.4572:

However since they do make money off of the new dyes in the gem store Frost & Flame, Venom, Toxic that those special one can remain soulbound so that this new item doesn’t affect the sales of the new dyes.

actually if dye’s were acount bound i would considder buying the toxic dye set. its just another thing to collect, like mini’s, skins, finishers, you name it. having to collect something 9 times in my case… thats just not going to happen.