Guild Wars 2

TL;DR: I think dye rates have been dropped far more than they should have been because they want to sell the packs, and it takes forever to get them all.

I posted a comment on reddit about this, but I kind of felt like expanding. What I said was:
“…considering the fact that there are 420 to get, and you may get 2 or more of the same dye to drop. Especially common dyes. So that would be… 1,000 hours or so? Considering the increase in drops required and the possibility of an extra every hour. So, that’s not really no time, IMO. Plus you get the problem of having to do that on 5 or more characters… so just imagine playing for 5 to possibly 10,000 hours just to get the option for your colors. That’s slightly ridiculous… not to mention that ANet may add more dyes, and then each of those may put another 2-3 hours, and maybe 10 per obscenely rare one. And if we had even a fourth of the the million colors on the spectrum, that would still be well over 2,500,000(?) hours into the game to get them all. You’d be rotting in your chair long before you got them.”

Now, a thousand hours is a lot…. but two and a half million hours is a lot just to get a shiny dye… of course, I know there aren’t exactly a million dyes on the spectrum, in fact, probably more, but let’s just go with that number. Of course, there’s the alternative of buying the dyes all one by one. But that would cost so much grinding for gold that you’d still be old or dead before you got them. I’d say… somewhere around 500,000-750,000 gold. Even at a rate of 5 gold an hour, that would be at least 10,000 hours. Much faster, but you’d still want to break your computer by time you were done. Also, you have to wait for all the dyes to be found anyway, so that could take an extra 72 or more hours. I honestly think the rates have been nerfed more than ANet intended, and maybe for a good reason. I think it’s so that they can sell the dye packs more, but that’s just a guess.

I made a warrior this weekend and got to level 20. Got no dye drops to play with at all. I had to steal money from my mains sold items in the TP to buy some dyes for it.

I don’t think it’s specfic to just dyes though. I’ve even had to start buying karma items for my warrior too because the drops were so scarce. When I first played through my main at release I was getting reasonable amounts of drops allowing me to change my armour and upgrade my weapons fairly regularly. Now it’s mostly what the Merchants themselves call junk that drops. And if you actually have junk drop from a Veteran or a Champion consider yourself lucky because I normally only have my desire to fight anymore drop after killing them.

I heard there was supposed to be a drop increase but it seems to have gone the other way. I’ll see how it goes but the the reason I’ve uninstalled and shelved Borderlands 2 now is because the drop rates in that were abysmal too

I’ve gotten at least a dye drop every day… but I’ve been playing Fractals and some of the other dungeons, not the outside environment.

Paul.4081:

I made a warrior this weekend and got to level 20. Got no dye drops to play with at all. I had to steal money from my mains sold items in the TP to buy some dyes for it.

I don’t think it’s specfic to just dyes though. I’ve even had to start buying karma items for my warrior too because the drops were so scarce. When I first played through my main at release I was getting reasonable amounts of drops allowing me to change my armour and upgrade my weapons fairly regularly. Now it’s mostly what the Merchants themselves call junk that drops. And if you actually have junk drop from a Veteran or a Champion consider yourself lucky because I normally only have my desire to fight anymore drop after killing them.

I heard there was supposed to be a drop increase but it seems to have gone the other way. I’ll see how it goes but the the reason I’ve uninstalled and shelved Borderlands 2 now is because the drop rates in that were abysmal too

I hear tiny tina is looking for you to come to a tea party.

I frequently get dye. One of the best places to get them is harvesting food nodes.

I ran some dungeons the past few days. In 2 days I literally got 10 unidentified dyes. 3 of them were in one run. I tried to carry this luck to the MF but it didn’t work =*(