In FFXIV, Slate Grey Dye is a super useful ingredient in many weekend Fashion Report events throughout the year. Even if you don’t need it for farming MGP, however, you probably want to know where to find any and all dyes in the game for your everyday Final Fantasy fashion and glamour. Dye tends to be in more frequent demand than simple gear — seeing as it’s a consumable and all. This can cause the cost of Slate Grey Dye and others like it to inflate on the Market Board. This is why you might find yourself asking the question at hand: where to find Slate Grey Dye in FFXIV for yourself. Let’s take a look with our quick little FFXIV guide to Slate Grey Dye and see how to get it!
If you need help finding more dyes, we’ve also got guides to finding Cherry Pink Dye, Dragoon Blue Dye, and Ruby Red Dye in FFXIV as well!
How to Preview Slate Grey Dye on Your Glam
Like any dye in FFXIV, you can preview Slate Grey Dye on any or all of your gear on a whim. Just pull up your Character menu in-game, right-click on the armor piece you want to preview (or press X/Square on a controller). This brings up a dropdown menu of options like “Unequip” and “Try On.” If the armor piece in question can use dye — like the Slate Grey Dye we want to see — you should select the option to “Dye” it from here. Note that not every piece of FFXIV equipment is able to apply dye. Though most can.
Otherwise, you can select “Try On” and click the icon again in the new “Fitting Room” menu that appears. At which point there should be an option for “Enable Dye Preview.” Either option will bring you to the same “Item Dyeing” menu regardless.
FFXIV splits its dye options into eight categories: white, red, brown, yellow, green, blue, purple, and a miscellaneous option mostly used for metallic dyes and other odd options. Despite the fact that it’s called “Slate Grey Dye,” the proper preview can be found in the “white” category. That’s the first circle from the left when opening the “Item Dyeing” menu. Slate Grey Dye is then the fifth square under those white dye options — the third from the right. Click it to show whatever your gear piece would look like with Slate Grey Dye applied.
Note that if you also have the “show all equipped gear” toggle selected on your character portrait, you can also click “preview all dyeable gear with the same color” after selecting Slate Grey Dye (or any other dye for that matter). This will show what all your currently equipped gear looks like with the chosen color applies.
Where to Get Slate Grey Dye in FFXIV
Slate Grey Dye is of the more in-demand cosmetic colors. Not because it’s particularly nice to look at, of course. Though it does fit well with some glams! The real reason is the aforementioned Fashion Report. It’s very commonly used to score a few extra points in the weekly Gold Saucer minigame thanks to its cheap price and accessibility. Some dyes can be crafted from the “Others” section of your Crafting Log or by visiting the Firmament to buy them with Skybuilders’ Scrips. Slate Grey Dye, on the other hand, is available from any Dyemonger in FFXIV.
Dyemongers are just NPC shopkeepers like “Merchant & Menders.” Though they obviously specialized in dyes. Cheap dyes, too. They sell the most basic options available — typically only charging a few hundred Gil per pot. Other dyes (i.e. basically any that you can’t get from Dyemongers) sell for much more on the Market Board.
You can find Dyemongers in FFXIV at the following locations:
- Alaric – Old Gridania (X: 14.3, Y: 8.8)
- Nanabe – Ul’dah, Steps of Thal (X: 14.2, Y: 11.0)
- Unsynrael – Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks (X: 6.0, Y: 12.3)
- Frine – Ishgard, The Pillars (X: 6.0, Y: 9.9)
- Tokohana – Hingashi, Kugane (X: 12.9, Y: 12.2)
Though we personally recommend Unsynrael. The Limsa Lominsa Aetheryte is right next to its shopping district, giving you quick access to the Market Board and an easy walk to the Dyemonger with no extra loading times.
What is Slate Grey Dye Worth in FFXIV?
This one has a very short and easy answer. In FFXIV, Slate Grey Dye is worth exactly 216 Gil. No more and no less. Anything higher on the Market Board is someone trying to scam yeah. And hey! That’s just part of the game sometimes. Players often try to charge more for basic items like this to take advantage of less-informed folks. It’s an easy way to turn a profit in FFXIV. Other times, people just don’t know what something is worth before trying to sell it themselves.
Generally, this means that Slate Grey Dye goes for more than 216 Gil on the Market Board. For example, as I look at my server’s prices now, it’s hovering around 850 Gil. That’s about four times higher than the selling price! Yet the transaction history shows that people are still buying it. Maybe they got scammed; maybe they were just too lazy to make the trek to a Dyemonger. Either way, you don’t need to spend the extra money yourself.
It’s also possible to find Slate Grey Dye (and most other dyes for that matter) for cheaper than their selling price. You just need to get lucky. Maybe someone bought more than they needed and wants to offload it, while recouping some of their losses? The “why” doesn’t really matter. You just know to always check if you can get a better deal before buying from an NPC. There’s usually a Market Board right next to any Dyemonger anyway.
Of course, there’s also the value Slate Grey Dye has for your fashion. Nobody can but you can put a price on that.
And that’s it for our look at Slate Grey Dye in FFXIV. We hope it helped you find some, get some, and enjoy some with your glamour collection. Enjoy and take care!
