Dye

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Dye is an item type used to change the color of most armor and some items. The item is named 'Vial of Dye [colour]' where color indicates the color of the dye. Dye comes in the following colors:

Black Blue Brown Gray Green Orange Purple Red Silver White Yellow
Image:Black Dye.png Image:Blue Dye.png Image:Brown Dye.png Image:Gray Dye.png Image:Green Dye.png Image:Orange Dye.png Image:Purple Dye.png Image:Red Dye.png Image:Silver Dye.png Image:White Dye.png Image:Yellow Dye.png

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[edit] Value

Although merchants will always pay 1Gold for them (except gray, see below), there are dye traders, so make sure to check their prices before selling to other players. Traders will offer a minimum of 10Gold for dyes, but values may increase, especially during events that offer dyeable masks.

[edit] Usage

Dye can be applied to armor (except certain headgear, such as elementalist or paragon headgear and most special event headgear) and most weapons. It can also be applied to your backpack, belt pouch and bags.

To begin applying dye, double click the dye and then click on the item you wish to dye. This will bring up the dye preview window, which will show you a preview of how the item would look dyed. You can then drag additional dyes (up to four total) into the slots in the preview window to mix them and create more color variations. When mixing dyes, you must mix different colors, two purples and a blue will work, but the system will not allow you to use just two purples. When you are happy with your dye combination, click 'apply' to apply it. Hitting cancel at this point will close the dialog and return your dyes to their original locations.

Note that when dying your backpack, belt pouch or bags the dye will take effect immediately and you will not get a chance to preview or mix it.

Some items, such as chaos axes, dye in unexpected ways (generally the colors are inverted). The dye preview window is an excellent resource to make sure you will get the color you want.

[edit] Acquisition and trade

Vials of dye are random drops from most enemies. You can also acquire dyes from the dye traders in most major outposts, or from trading with other players.

When selling or trading dyes, be aware that all dyes have a merchant value of one gold, and this is not indicative of the actual selling price. A common scam in pre-searing Ascalon is to buy black and other more costly dyes off of new players who are unaware of the high value of these items. It is a good idea to check the price at the dye trader before selling dyes to other players, you can generally sell it for a price in between the trader's buy and sell prices, which is a good deal for both parties.

Gray dye is available from merchants for 50 gold. Be careful when trading as gray is easily mistaken for the more expensive silver dye.

A vial of random dye is given as a quest reward for To Dye For (Istan).

A vial of Red dye is given as a quest reward for the The Knights Who Say Nian quest. (Canthan New Year 2007and 2008)

[edit] Notes

  • Gray dye is the default color of most newly crafted armor.
  • Silver dye is similar to gray, but it will cause normally non-reflective materials, such as cloth, to become metallic-looking. This effect still works when mixed with other dyes.
  • Each item dyes differently, purple on Warrior Platemail armor can look very different from purple on a Ranger Tyrian armor. Also keep this in mind if you're trying to dye mixed armor sets.
  • You do not need to dye an item back to its base color before changing it, dying an already dyed item will simply overwrite the previous dye. (Warning! See bug note below!)
  • When sold to a regular merchant, every dye is worth 1 gold (except gray dye which is worth 25 gold). However you will get a lot more gold by selling the dye to a player or dye trader.
  • Dye from prior to the new dye system implemented in the October 25, 2006 game update are worth 25 gold at the merchant, and do not stack with the current dye.
  • Black and white dyes are the least common and most sought after dyes, and thus the most expensive.
  • Depending on the base skin, some dyes can be 'faked' by mixing other dyes (e.g. green = blue + yellow).
  • Some items dye unusually, such as Chaos Axes. For example, applying blue dye will instead make the axe red.
Bug Bug.
Currently, using one dye will always correctly dye the item, but mixing two or more may add them to the item's base color, depending on armor. For example, adding yellow to an elementalist armor with a purple base color will make it look yellow. Adding yellow and silver will mix them with the base purple, and the result won't be 'gold-like', instead it will be yellow and silver and purple: khaki.
Bug Bug.
Many inventory icons will not dye in the same way as the rendered model, so the equipped item will look different than the icon suggest. There are some items that even accept dyes while having no colorable areas, so they look the same regardless of the dyes used. To check the actual look of the item, players have to use a dye on the item, then remove all dye vials from the dye preview panel.

[edit] Trivia

  • There was a big dye update on Friday October 27, 2006.
    • Dye Remover, which was designed to reset the item back to its default color, was replaced for gray dye.
    • Prior this update, dye were applied immediately and color mixes where done without the Dye Preview, hence only possible by directly applying the accordant vials to anotother to create Mixed Dye before using them on armor or weapons.
    • White and brown dye colors have been added to the game.
    • The inventory icon appearance of these items changed.
  • With another update, all vials got renamed from "<Color> Dye" to "Vial of Dye [<Color>]".
    • Other languages used this naming system already before, e.g. German.

[edit] External links

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