3 hour maintenance for special dye?

[Tupsi]

Please tell me we didn't just turn off the servers for 3 hours to add "special dye"... Really, SE? 3 hours for "jet black"...

Actually... ... yeah, that's fine. I could go for some jet black dye.

Carry on.

Probably been stated, but people this far into the life cycle of MMORPGs still don't realize servers going down for 1-24 hours isn't solely for what they're work on? >.>

[Tiggy]

Probably been stated, but people this far into the life cycle of MMORPGs still don't realize servers going down for 1-24 hours isn't solely for what they're work on? >.>

Nope. I don't think many people realize how important simply restarting the servers every so often is, or how often changes invisible to us (performance enhancements as an example) are applied in these patches.

[Jeykama]

Well, out of 16 quick ventures so far, I've gotten 3 sets of 2x dye (2 jet black and 1 pure white) so it doesn't seem terribly rare, which is a good thing unless you're looking to dye a chess set in the colors. I've only gotten 1 HQ chub in that, so maybe it replaces the NQ fish, heh.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Well, out of 16 quick ventures so far, I've gotten 3 sets of 2x dye (2 jet black and 1 pure white) so it doesn't seem terribly rare, which is a good thing unless you're looking to dye a chess set in the colors. I've only gotten 1 HQ chub in that, so maybe it replaces the NQ fish, heh.

What level/ilvl is your retainer, if you dont mind me asking? I'm just curious, because mine is only lvl 26, and I'm wondering if I have no shot at these until she reaches 50.

[Xenor]

I wish I'd never made one of my retainers a DoL. It's much harder to gear up a DoL well enough than a battle job.

[Warlyx]

i guess u need ilvl80+ for dyes , no luck yet

[Nahaara]

Of all the things to make untradeable, dyes!? What the hell is SE smoking?

[Waeksyn]

For DoL it is gathering. You need 383 for miner/botanist and 308 for fisher to be able to go on ventures XIV (ilvl 80 for DoW/DoM).

It's more difficult to get the level needed for DoL than it is for DoW/M. To get the 383 for my miner, i needed to farm up another Forager's Dolabra AND use top gathering gear melded with gathering materia.

[Nyalia]

A few notes on gearing up DoL: If you get yourself a Supra, you can give your no-longer-needed Foragers to your retainer. That's what I did for my FSH. As far as gear goes, you only need gathering materia. Because you only need gathering materia, and Guerdon Is give +3 (vs Guerdon IVs, which give +6), and nothing has a cap of 15+, the level of the materia is immaterial. Just take the cheapest rank (sometimes IIs are cheaper than Is) and meld away until cap. It's surprisingly cheap, though certainly not free. And, if you hate buying materia, SB it yourself. It takes like, 20 minutes to SB a full suit of pure ilvl 45-48 gathering gear (apart from rings/weapon).

So, the dyes are untradeable, but you can trade dyed equipment. Dying them the new colors doesn't make them untradeable, right? I wonder how much you could sell dyed hempen clothing for, or spring skirts, or whatnot...

[zar]

Do the stats on gear actually affect the outcome or is it only ilevel? My retainer is il81 but wearing Strength accessories as a Conjurer.