Guild Wars 2

I see so many people complaining about no gold in spvp/tpvp, but me and my guildies craft dyes and make a good amount. Here is a video of me opening 250 dyes that I got from salvaging solo queue chests. (If you don’t PvE at all, and are level 1, the Laurels from dailies will give you 10 dyes for 5Ls)

http://youtu.be/-_E2CDlBJ2E

TL:DR, made 107 gold from dyes purely from solo queuing.
I’d take Glory to Exp conversion over Glory to gold any day.

To craft dyes in spvp: 1 Arcane Sliver, 1 Arcane Orb, 10 Arcane powders, 1 Consumable token.

RNG

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Pure RNG, and it takes tons of time to open rank/tournament chests, salvage them and then create the dyes. The last I opened about 300 chests it took approx +2 hours to convert them to dyes. And again, it’s just RNG.

This is how my guild spends their tokens/glory. While putting the mats in the Mystic forge is time consuming, we generally all make over 50g each time we craft dyes. RNG yes, but you’d have to have very bad luck not to make over 40g.

there should be dyes in the chests (not only unidentified – a very low chance on a rare dye would be a start) – and a crafting all button on mystic forge

to much clicking so i dont even open this chests anymore

And how long did it take you to get enough mats for 250 dyes?
250 dyes need ~ 2500 Arcane powders.
By a rate of 5 powder / salvage, this are 500 items to salvage and by 5 items / chest this are still 100 chests. Not to mentions, that you probably wont win 100 games in a row.
By calculating a win-rate of 60% this would be ~ 167 played matches.
But in this calculation, I havent even calculated the Arcane Silver, or the Arcane orbs.

EverythingEnds.4261:

And how long did it take you to get enough mats for 250 dyes?
250 dyes need ~ 2500 Arcane powders.
By a rate of 5 powder / salvage, this are 500 items to salvage and by 5 items / chest this are still 100 chests. Not to mentions, that you probably wont win 100 games in a row.
By calculating a win-rate of 60% this would be ~ 167 played matches.
But in this calculation, I havent even calculated the Arcane Silver, or the Arcane orbs.

This.
In the same time you take to get those materials, you’ve made 3x gold in PvE. And you’re sure about the gold you’ve made, not RNG. I’ve opened pretty much the same amount of dyes you’ve opened, but got nothing valuable from them at all.

why not just throw pvp items somewhere and dyes come out..?why we have to open the chest, salvage and go to mystic forge to make the dyes?Why the pvpers have to push like one million clicks?Why Anet?Why?

While not “efficient” as going out and farming gold.

It is nice to get “something” back for the hours of pvp I do….even if it can be RNG.

Amplifier.1704:

Pure RNG, and it takes tons of time to open rank/tournament chests, salvage them and then create the dyes. The last I opened about 300 chests it took approx +2 hours to convert them to dyes. And again, it’s just RNG.

Man, it took me 2 hours just to open 500 chests the other day. After that I couldn’t even be bothered converting to dye, I just left a ton of powder sitting in my inventory. You’re fast.

Well it’s nice there’s something.

Could always use some more, why not just give keys. 99% of the time they give absolute garbage anyway.

Without the “craft this again” panel and choosing number of items you want to craft in the mystic forge, and/or being able to add/remove items to the discovery/mystic forge panel with a single click instead double clicks; it’s a pain to make those dyes.

A literal pain, as it’ll hurt your hands double clicking that much.

You could spend all that time and finger health in something else.

Is it better RNG though? Dyes you get from soloq do not stack with normal dyes. Are they better? Surely someone has measure this. Or maybe I’m just too optimistically hopeful that this is the case.

Chopps.5047:

Is it better RNG though? Dyes you get from soloq do not stack with normal dyes. Are they better? Surely someone has measure this. Or maybe I’m just too optimistically hopeful that this is the case.

they stack. they are both unidentified accountbound dyes

It takes too much time to get those materials… PVP is dead… Now even more when that WvW update came. Seriously ANET do something about it. Make it fun

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Chopps.5047:

Is it better RNG though? Dyes you get from soloq do not stack with normal dyes. Are they better? Surely someone has measure this. Or maybe I’m just too optimistically hopeful that this is the case.

they stack. they are both unidentified accountbound dyes

Have you tested? I recall them not stacking despite them lookong identical. Ofc I could be wrong. I just reply because I didn’t see positive confirmation that it was tested in your comment. Just circumstantial evidence so far

they should just add champ bags for wins and losses…. like 3 on win 1 on loss til they can make a real system.

Oh, dude, don’t tell them, you’ll crash the dye market! :p