Guild Wars 2

Hey there! I was thinking about getting a one time consumable item out there which allows you to salvage used dyes. For instance, you have a dye on one character that you would prefer to use on another one of your alts, simply just use the consumable which then pops up your dye archive and you just click the dye to salvage. This then removes the dye from your list and turns it into a identified dye ampoule. Worried this can be abused in any way shape or form? Just make the salvaged dyes account bound! This will not affect any game play in any way and it would be something I would definitely buy from the black lion marketplace. It shouldn’t be overly expensive otherwise people would rather just buy the dye off the marketplace but it’d be a great option to have.

What made me make such a suggestion? Well when the game initially released I was testing out a bunch of classes and on my elementalist I had found a Celestial dye and not knowing its rarity since the game had just gone live, I used it expecting it to be account wide. I stopped playing that elementalist long ago and made a new elementalist because I preferred a different race. Now afraid of throwing away the celestial dye on my character I have a used character slot of a character I will never play.

Hmm instead of salvaging dyes and going through all of that hastle and what not, I would rather have a system where, once you unlock a dye colour, it’s simply unlocked and available to all of your characters on your account as a whole, permanently. But yes, I fully support the concept of unlocking a dye for your account as a whole rather than 1 character.

I think it should have been like this from the very beginning, but that is just my two cents.

I agree wholeheartedly! Dyes should be unlocked across all characters. Now what I’m thinking is that there would less money coming into the coffers since people would buy less dyes (just one Celestial dye instead of five or six or how many characters you have). The solution? Up the prices of dyes (by a 5 factor to keep it “fair” for people who didn’t unlock extra slots).

Anet has repeatedly stated that they are not moving to account unlocks for dyes.
Also, the majority of dyes are so affordable there really isn’t a need to offer account unlocks for them. Only a handful can be considered expensive.
Playing the dye lottery just wouldn’t be as enjoyable either.

So you found a celestial dye and used it without knowing it’s potential value on the market. Tough luck. Not to sound like a total jerk or anything but that’s just something that’s bound to happen with any new game or content. I found a white dye and gave it to my engineer. However, I just couldn’t get it to blend well with anything. Ivory dye turned out much better for me. In hindsight I wish I would have given my white dye to a different character, but that’s just how it is and I’m perfectly fine accepting that.

Also, I could do without seeing everyone be bland and generic by wearing just black and white.

Sounds fair to me :-P I’m all for balancing.

Edit: @Eleima.5027

Sir Burpalot.2514:

Anet has repeatedly stated that they are not moving to account unlocks for dyes.
Also, the majority of dyes are so affordable there really isn’t a need to offer account unlocks for them. Only a handful can be considered expensive.
Playing the dye lottery just wouldn’t be as enjoyable either.

So you found a celestial dye and used it without knowing it’s potential value on the market. Tough luck. Not to sound like a total jerk or anything but that’s just something that’s bound to happen with any new game or content. I found a white dye and gave it to my engineer. However, I just couldn’t get it to blend well with anything. Ivory dye turned out much better for me. In hindsight I wish I would have given my white dye to a different character, but that’s just how it is and I’m perfectly fine accepting that.

Also, I could do without seeing everyone be bland and generic by wearing just black and white.

I understand where you’re coming from but I’m afraid this whole conversation is getting offtrack of my suggestion. I’ve never asked for account wide dye archives, I’m asking for an item that can extract a used dye on one character and transfer it to another character from the same account. It’s basically buying paying money to buy something you already have. It’s not making a new dye out of thin air it’s salvaging a dye already used and making it re-available to that specific account.

You seem to have taken my screenshots as a complaint on how I want my celestial dye back but that’s where you’re wrong. Perhaps I will remove them as to not cause any more further confusion but I wont. I was just trying to show you how I was able to think of my suggestion, nothing more, nothing less. I’ve come to accept that I already lost the use of that dye and I moved on. I made that character and got that dye 5 months ago, if it were that big of a deal to me I would’ve stopped playing a long time ago. I just held onto that character because the slot wasn’t really needed and just in case an item as I suggested were to come out. Call it being optimistic.

(Off topic from the actual conversation)

Also you try to come off as not being a jerk but then with that last comment you stereotype me as a person who only uses black and white and nothing else when you only see that on the one character I posted. I take great insult to that because I actually try to make my characters as unique as possible.

I would like you to read that last comment again and think hard about whether or not it was directed at you. If you want to take a generic statement as a personal insult then that’s something you did to yourself.

You are suggesting that Anet spend time developing a “dye salvage kit” to sell on the gem store. The problem with this is that the primary use for such an item would be to salvage only the several expensive dyes on the market.
That would be it’s ONLY use.
It would be pointless to use it for any other dye except those few Rare blacks, whites, and golds because everything else is cheap and affordable.
What is the effect of this? The expensive rare dyes on the market all drop in price. Eventually they will drop and then stabilize in price to the point where it makes more economical sense to simply buy an additional Celestial dye than buy the “dye salvage kit” and use it on one that you already have.

Essentially Anet would have spent development time to create an item and dye salvage system that has very limited use and would see very limited purchases. It’s not a worthwhile effort.