I still think dyes should be way more common a drop than they are. Like, drop more per kill than now.
Did you guys get a chance to fixed shared credit for group PVE? Only one final blow credit even with premium characters. Dailies were fun running in a group but now I have not done a daily since shared credit stopped working. Same w fire dragons and other tasks. Only one person is getting credit.
what i have noticed: pigments seems to drop 1 per spawn-group-round-wave 80% chance base dye mats from nodes seems to be dropping consistently well for Agon middle area and blue area, Not in outer continents like ruby yssam. crog slime is a dumb drop rate not worth wasting time on, so forget exotic dyes unless altered rate, (currently roughly 2 slime per 30 crogs). keys don't seem to give pigments, when that would be nice daily tasks don't give pigments, when it would be nice to get like 5 pigments for killing 20-30 of each pig mob as added lil bonus. would be nice to see higher rate of base dye mats in outer continents than on agon main map, instead of zero currently. would be nice to have a chance at more than one pigment per wave spawn. thank you.
Leveling of Dye Crafting appears to be bugged -- I crafted 10 grave gray dies, and go absolutely no movement on my skill level. Another player crafted a bunch of bases, and also got nowhere.
You need to apply 1 dye to a piece of bone or mastery metal armor, use a blank schematic on it (sacrificing the item), which creates a blueprint you can research in your paper doll.
I find it kinda fun tbh, have you give it a try? It's pretty neat to see the research queue and plan out how you want to level. It might be a little confusing at first but it's pretty easy after that.