Pretty awesome Dye guide! (No, please dont go all black)Follow

Hey guys, here's a pretty useful guide for those who want to unlock the quest for Dyeing armor: Seriously some of the armor in the game need a serious recolor (it has to match my skin and hair you know!)

FFXIV ARR: Unlocking Dyes

I need to do this so I can start running around in pink sabotons.

This is good info. Thanks.

I wouldn't mind the pink sabatons so much if I wasn't wearing a red jacket, yellow gloves, blue pants and a purple helmet...I look like a schizophrenic easter egg.

Thanks so much for posting this!! The multi-colored look of my current gear set was starting to drive me crazy lol.

Yes to all black! My favorite color! (well one of several favorites lol)

Is there a reference to show what dye combinations create new colors or am I still buying everything to know them all?

Oh Altana, That reminds me of searching for dyes in GW2. I had a feeling that white and black would be more expensive than other colors, but when I found them they were several hundred gold. This was quite a bit considering many of the other dyes were only a few silver.

There are a lot more NPC's that sell orange juice, you are right. We just wanted to post the nearest possible vendor in. Though, you have a point it may be easier to just teleport back to Ul'dah and ride a chocobo back to Vesper bay... Will try this out when beta comes back up! Thanks for the feedback

Just remember, once you dye black, you can't go back.

The absolute quickest way to do the dye quest if you don't want to go out of your way (for the Ul'dah people at least) is to go through the main quest line. One of the quests that has you go back to Waking Sands will reward you with 10 Orange Juice. After that, it's just hopping outside and talking to the quest NPC before you leave the area. The coincidence of the reward and the request makes me feel that the juice request is specifically because of this quest reward.

But for those who aren't at that point yet, yes, Ul'dah's the quickest option based on the starting point in the guide. I mention the above, however, because there is no guarantee that the vendor stock won't change from Phase 3 -> Phase 4.

Edited, Jul 3rd 2013 12:04am by Ravashack

I'm glad to see that there are already variations on specific colors. I'd hate to only have one shade of blue.

There isn't yet, but that doesn't mean there won't in the future. I know Yoshida mentioned not letting us dye AF because he doesn't want us to ruin it... I say it ruins it not to let us customize our characters in simple ways that make them feel like their more original and better represents how we see them.

Can anyone say Hot-pink Sabotons with Lime-green harness and subligar on a giant male Rogyden??? Yeah, that's gonna be me! (Now if I can find my star-spangled Subligar, I might try and work a color scheme for that...)