Armor Dyes

[Calabar]

Here’s a helpful tool for those of you who want to change the color of your armor but are finding it hard to come up with certain colors. I found this link to a color chart in a post on the Shaman's Crucible.

http://www.tayloredmktg.com/rgb/

[Mufassa27]

Thanks for the chart that should help me alot.

[KyrosKrane]

If you'd rather spend 800+p and about 6 hours to get the skills to make them yourself. go ahead. save yourself the 70p each from buying them from me.

Balderdash. Both the pottery and brewing portions trivial under 57, and the final brewing combine trivials at 68. I got my pottery up to about 90 or 100 in maybe 1-2 hours work and WAY less than 50pp (I had change left over from my starting seed cash). Same again for brewing; both are store-bought at this level. I guesstimate that you can get both pottery and brewing up to around 90 for less than 100pp total and three hours of your time. Add in an hour's research (in-game or at eqtraders.com) and you have four hours and 100pp, to save 70pp per vial. For seven vials, they'll save 390pp net, a not-inconsiderable sum. And they now have the skills to make and resell the vials themselves.

I'd like to see you tell your auto mechanic that you could do just as good a job and cheaper to rebuild you transmission.

I wouldn't tell my mechanic this, no. However, if he tried to charge me $100 for a tire rotation with a "cost" (in time and effort) of $30, I would seriously think about spending an hour or two learning how to do it myself.

Rebuilding a transmission is more like a trivial 200+ combine. Combines with trivials at the level of dyes are more like oil changes or replacing a flat tire. Not simple by any means, but easy to learn and quick to do.

[Bearen-E'ci]

BE CAREFUL

I lost an entire stack of fired dye vials this morning when I mistakenly put the whole stack in the brew barrel. I thought that couldn't happen anymore???

[Phirelight]

I just learned something interesting about tenting our armor slots. There’s a way to fix the problem of tinting your skin. I’m sure its old news to many of you, but I’d never heard of it. Just type /dopropertinting on. You may have to zone a couple of times before you’ll see the results, but it works. My druid no longer has a dark green chest. And I found out for the first time that there are slits up the sides of his tunic. Its color used to be so close to his flesh tone that I never noticed it.

I can't get this to work - I've zoned/succored/camped - bleh I'm a human druid with Eleysian armour and I don't want my skin to be tinted.......any other ideas? Thus far I've only tinted my arms which were off color to match the boring grey of my bp and legs. If I could get this to work I would LOVE to tint away the grey :?:

[lonewylfe]

I did the /dopropertinting this morning and it never started working till after I had logged back into the game this afternoon...

edit: the point of that randomness being that you should try quitting out of the game and coming back in.

[Phirelight]

AH HA it worked - I'm one happy girl!!!!! :P

EDIT*

Bah looks great on my computer but my husbands - I still have tinted skin which tells me that each person playing the game must have done /showpropertinting on so I untinted my armour until there is a fix for this or i get new BP :evil:

[FaerieFire]

/dopropertinting and failures on the dye combines

The /dopropertinting command seems to be limited both in terms of which video cards will do it and how much video RAM you need for it to actually work. Too little video RAM and it simply won't work. It's nice when it does, though -- no more colored "mesh" overlays on arms and necks.

It may just be bad luck, but we had a guildie do the combines for the armor dyes. His pottery was at 199 and his brewing at 188, well above the reported trivials on the combines. Working on 11 stacks of each ingredient, he failed on about 15 to 20 percent of the vial combines, which I thought was abnormally high considering his pottery skill level and the trivial on that combine. He was getting trivial messages, of course. On the brewing, however, the failure (despite his slightly lower skill level) was closer to 5 percent or less. The final combines if vials and dye were probably in the neighborhood of 2 percent.

This really seemed to contradict the usual failure-above-trivial tradeskill rate as far as the vial combines went. Using that large of a supply of components, I think we got a fair sampling. Was this just bad luck or are others getting an abnormally high failure rate on the vials?

[Silvana]

Failures

I have also noticed a higher than expected failure rate, especially on firing the vials. While my skill is not uber, I am at 138 in pottery and 186 in brewing. I tend to fail from 1-3 times per stack of 20 on firing the vials and 0-1 times of the brewing compenents. I guess the upside is the ingredients for the vials are cheaper than the dyes.

On RN the price has stablized at 50pp. I left some on a bazaar trader last night for 59pp and didn't sell one. I had previously sold over 100 at 50pp so people are not paying just any amount anymore. With some CHA gear I can buy the ingredients for just under 30pp per attempt. If the ones I left on the merchant sell today I'll have made 3.5k this week, which is a nice sum for me.

Silvana

[rrimgeaper2]

with around 120 in pottery and 140 brewing, i had no failures on any combines when making 20 of the vials. (did this a day after the expansion came out)

[Lyavain]

I was just wondering if it is possible to redye slots later with using a new dye again? I know you get to view how it will look before you do it, but what if you decide to dye for "guild colours" or something, just as an example, but later wish to change it. Is it possible to do such?

Disregard..I just found the undyeing topic further down.. :roll: