Guild Wars 2

I’m really not sure why they didn’t do this from the start, but with a gazillion dyes in the game they should really be bound to your account rather than your character. Having to pick and choose whether to use a dye on one character or go through the hassle of moving it to another (and then maybe deciding, after seeing the dye again, that it wouldn’t work there either) is a big mistake in my mind.

We have tons of gold sinks in the game, from waypoints to repairing armor to buying all the armor sets to runes to crafting to… well, there are TONS. Dying is one of the more “flavorful” parts of Guild Wars 2, rather than the mechanical side, and there shouldn’t be a limit on dyes since they don’t change anything that’s mechanical.

If I get a random dye on my character and find that I already have it, I don’t want to start a hot potato pass around to all my other characters to see if they’ve unlocked it too. When I find a dye, I want the ease and fun of mindlessly double-clicking on it and adding it to my stash of cool colors without having to worry about whether it would look good on this character or that.

The Guild Wars 2 krewe has done great things in their steps towards fun over unfun, but having dyes character-specific rather than account-specific is a step in the wrong direction.

So please ArenaNet; make dyes available to all characters on your account when adding them, rather than having to readd the same dye for every character that you make.

Two words.

Dye Packs.

Three words.
Bank Tab Microtransactions.

Four words
I’m with you Ghostwheel

Five words.
I’m also with you, Ghostwheel.

LewGenesis.3702:

Four words
I’m with you Ghostwheel

Pony.3256:

Five words.
I’m also with you, Ghostwheel.

Technically five respective six words. I’m = I am

EDIT: Oh, btw, CO-CO-COMBO BREAKER!!!

If they were account bound the market would be saturated with dyes – the drop rate is quite high and there is a crafting ability to make dyes aside from packs in the ingame store.

So per character is reasonable… and I disagree with making them account bound. If they were account bound the drop rate would have to be reduced and the crafting option removed to limit the number of dyes in the world or dye would become rampant like sticks of butter

I have a rainbow thing going on one character collects blues, one reds, one yellows etc and every 5th dye I get goes unidentified into my bank towards the later recipies that need 250 unidentified dyes.

I agree completely with the OP. This might be okay for players with one or two main characters after having reached the level cap, but for those of us leveling various characters, having to “manage dyes” feels pretty unnecessarily annoying.

I’d prefer if they just allow you to favor a few dyes, perhaps five or so that can be used on your alts.

TLDR,

This is soo not a big deal in the grand scheme of things I can’t believe I’m seeing a complaint about it. Personally I already have an idea of which colors I would like to try out on which characters I play thus don’t all my alts to have access to every color to begin with. Half the colors or more are ridiculas anyway.

Vlaxitov.5693

This is soo not a big deal in the grand scheme of things I can’t believe I’m seeing a complaint about it.

Considering the amount of complaints during the betas when the beta testers found out the account-dyes system becoming suddenly character bound was not a bug after all but the new way the dyes would be from now on, I’d say most people, including me, are against the new character bound dye system. You obviously have not been around much.

Here is the lastest thread in the suggestion forum:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Dyes-Please-make-them-account-bound/first

No dyes should not be account based as there’s money to be made off of them so if you want them you either have to find them or BUY them. No need to reduce the money made from the economy just because someone doesn’t want to earn them or wants something easy.

Dyes are generally cheap as it is, the only real expensive ones are Abyss, Celestial, Black, White and maybe Midnight Fire. It’s not all that hard to get the ones you want.

This has been a “thing” since before beta. At least choose a current complaint to peddle rather than bandwagon on a train that’s looooong since departed the list of realistic requests.

Why not make all unlocked dyes unlocked across the account? If I have white unlocked for my norn, it’s unlocked for my asura too. That way you don’t have to character hop to see if you have it- if you have it, just sell it to TP.

I’m pretty sure unlocked dyes were unlocked throughout all your characters. I’m not sure why they changed it for release.

Maybe just add a feature that allows you to check whether your other toons on the same account have the dye already? That would alleviate swapping toons to check if it’s known or not already.

I think keeping dyes character bound means getting said dyes on your other character are all the more rewarding when it happens. If you make dyes account bound, you might as well make everything account bound because the same argument’s for the dye could be applied to everything.

dyes will become worthless if they are account wide on use. People will only need 1 set of dyes. I propose you can rebottle a die you used and sell it if you want.