Guild Wars 2

Hi all.

I tried making some rare dyes (yellow) at the chef. Instead when I opened them they were uncommon dyes (green).

What am I missing or what am I doing wrong?

Ty in advance

Here’s the deal with chef ‘rare’ dyes. It’s not a garuntee of a rare. It’s a chance of anything up to rare. Likewise, if you craft one of the masterwork dyes, you may get a common dye back…. but you won’t have a chance of a rare at all.

It’s like the chef profession has it’s own little Mystic Toilet built in.

Want the cool part? Unless you’re really hankering for a shade of Yellow (or red, or whatever) you can sell some of those Unidentified Rare Dyes for more than regular Unidentified Dye…. then buy the Un-IDed dye and have about the same chance at a rare

that’s anecdotal evidance, your mileage may vary, and for all I know, you may have a greater chance of a rare dye from the chef rare dyes…. hasn’t felt like it to me though.

thank you very much for all the helpfull info

CassieGold.7460:

Here’s the deal with chef ‘rare’ dyes. It’s not a garuntee of a rare. It’s a chance of anything up to rare. Likewise, if you craft one of the masterwork dyes, you may get a common dye back…. but you won’t have a chance of a rare at all.

Oh, you got to be kidding. >.> I hadn’t made one because I hadn’t wanted to use all those mats, but I assumed from the name (masterwork, rare or whatever) that would be what I would get. What is it with this game and its fetish with RNG?

Yeah I think even if you manage to craft a rare dye, the amount of time, money, materials, it took you to actually land one will almost never net you a profitable return. Dye crafting for profit is a joke at best. You can sometimes turn a profit selling the un-id ones if you manage to gather the bulk of the mats yourself. It would be interesting to find out whether or not the “crafting criticals” would affect getting a rare or not, but I’m nearly positive it’s pure RNG

The problem is how many mats they take and the relative cost of the rarer ones. It really does not seem worth it to craft dyes at this point. You will almost certainly make more money selling the mats instead.

Here’s why Red Dye is my go to for a rare dye: Your mats are all things you can gather without RNG or buy for Karma:

Cherries: Karma in bulk
Tomato: Karma in bulk
Strawberries: Farm (in starter zones)
Raspberries: The only hard part…. you can gather from bushes, but you have to find them, or you can just buy them. WAY EASIER THAN CORIANDER.

Here’s the other thing about why people buy Rare Red and Rare Blue dyes…. People don’t know that what they’re looking for isn’t there. Contrary to what you would think, Midnight Fire and Midnight Ice are grey dyes not Red or Blue dyes.

So, if you want to convert a little coin or gather time + some karma into more coin, rare red dye is a good idea…. until everyone reads this, floods the market, spikes the prices of raspberries, etc, etc.

Anyway, GL out there and happy crafting.