What to do with Unidentified Dyes

Having already unlocked all non-Exclusive Dyes. The questions is, what do you consider is the best use for any Unidentified Dyes obtained in game.

Do you need money?

Keep until the next mini comes out that can be created in the forge (mini Griffin, jackal, etc) then use or place on the TP.

@starlinvf.1358 said:Do you need money?

Always need money, but no, not really. Just curious peoples opinions on what is the best course. My brain says to ID them, but in the end it's not really worth it.

@Kong.3280 said:

@starlinvf.1358 said:Do you need money?

Statistically dyes are kind of like Mystic Forging exotics...... you can turn a profit if you get lucky and get a really expensive dye.... but what are the odds of that? Plus UID dyes have the skewed value thing going right now where raw materials are typically worth more then most of the things they make; all because one item is worth orders more then others of its type.

Since I scribe a lot for my guild, I identify the dyes, then if it's a color that I already have I salvage them for pouches of pigment.

Having already unlocked all non-Exclusive Dyes. The questions is, what do you consider is the best use for any Unidentified Dyes obtained in game.

This is a matter of fact, not of opinion.

• Most people will make more money per unID dye by selling without opening, at the going sell offers.
• If you want to unlock specific dyes, it's more cost effective to sell unID unopened and buy the ones you need.
• It's only worth opening if you like the excitement of rolling the dice, exactly the same reason it's fun to open BL chests or Zephyr Supply Boxes (although dyes aren't as big a loss to open.

In general

• The average market value of opening unID dyes is less than the market value of unID dye
• The median value is also less.
• This holds true whether looking at dyes or the pigments salvaged from them.
• A fraction of that loss can sometimes be defrayed by forging the cheapest fines and cheapest masterwork.

So for the purposes of earning gold, you have to be extraordinarily lucky to drop enough high-cost dyes to make it worth the effort to open, spend time evaluating whether to salvage|forge|sell, and then to do so.

Excellent info for everyone, ty @Illconceived Was Na.9781

Hopefully that will help people vote on what they think is best. I'm curious to know everyone's opinions. :)

Some data:

http://www.gw2profits.com/bags.php?include=dye&sort=sell_percent1&arrange=all&materials=(you'll have to search the page for "unidentified dye")

@Mystic.5934 created the website to use their data collected over the years plus the GW2 API to help other people make financial decisions. Their unID dye data is based on 30k results, which turns out to be more than sufficient to make reasonable predictions for what works best. You'll see that there are no circumstances under which it is more valuable to open unID dyes.

Holding on to to craft gift of color.

Open them! =)

I always sell them on TP and buy the colors I actually want. RNG hates me.

Some Guild Hall upgrades need them, if applicable

I voted to sell, but at the moment, I am actually saving them because I want to make Bifrost some day.

I save them up to send to my son's account (since it's a newer account and does not have many dyes unlocked) and to also keep "just in case."