Guild Wars 2

Posting a thread beforehand worked for Blurry, it had better work for me! I’m spending the night tossing rare level 80 greatswords into the forge, I’ll update with the happy news as soon as soon as I have it!

Best of luck to you. Don’t forget to /dance before you start. Zomorros is always watching you, and enjoys a bit of entertainment.

Good luck! Just never give up, and you will suceeded sooner or later

Can’t wait for them tears of frustration~

Sebulon.7683:

Can’t wait for them tears of frustration~

Zomorros only sheds tears of joy when you dance for him. That’s not to say it’ll increase your odds.

I did not dance, but Zomorros was kind to me anyway! I literally gasped out loud because I had already thrown a bunch in and was kinda just going through the motions when it popped out. Thanks for the good luck wishes, this was all you guys I guess.

Congrats on that.

Side note – You have an interesting conversation in your chat box there.

Woho! Seems like you were out of GS aswell?

Congrats!

Thanks guys!

Because Blurryz is my hero, I followed his example again and sold Dawn, even though I really wanted to keep it, and I used the gold to try to forge more precursors. Got Spark this afternoon!

So, I’m pretty happy right now.

Good for you man, and I know the gold is alluring but don’t get caught up in it too much. Remeber why you were forging to begin with. I thin you should make at least one Legendary before you keeping playing the forge.

i just love the sound the mystic forge makes when you try to proc precursors…

oh man…, I’ve spent 300g on kitten mystic toilet and i got nothing, im depressed and not in the mood to farm anymore for dusk.
at 65 silver atm.
/cry

Ever since I got Spark last weekend, I’ve been throwing in tons of rare hammers and staves, hoping for The Colossus or The Legend. Got Colossus today!

Every time i see these threads i have to keep telling myself “they got lucky don’t you dare start trying that stuff……..yet”. Oh and congratulations

lol. when i read the last thread, Blurry’s?, i threw in 12 exotic GS and i got Dawn lol. so maaaybe it’ll happen to you too. ; ))))))

Uther, if you read Blurry’s thread you’ll see that I had posted a couple times in that thread (before I started this one) about how many weapons I’ve thrown in the forge with nothing to show. Some guys in that thread say it’s a numbers game, if you throw in enough weapons, you’ll get a precursor eventually. That’s true of course, but the problem is that many people have thrown in nearly the value of the precursor they’re after and have gotten nothing.
As someone who has been frustrated for a long time, but has gotten 3 precursors in a week almost right away after trying a different method, let me make a suggestion. Make a good bit of money first. Start buying 80 rares of your choice once you have like 200-300g. Set a limit for yourself of what your forge money is and leave the rest in your bank so you’re not broke if it doesn’t work out for you. Put in buy orders, don’t buy instantly. Sell back any exotics you get, which should even out over time to a fairily large number. Odds are after the first 100g or so you won’t have a precursor yet, but when your exotics sell you should have a large chunk of that back. The do it again. Don’t get upset and blow all your money because you don’t want to wait long enough for your exotics to sell before you have more rares to throw in.

Like I said, I got Dawn and Spark last weekend, and have been tossing rare hammers and staves into the forge all week hoping for one of their precursors. I tossed in around 1500 total but it took all week of doing that. All along I was working from the same stack of 150g I had allotted myself. If you just keep doing it, you should get one eventually. Yes, there is a big luck component but you’re really increasing your chances of getting lucky when you throw an endless stream of rares in.

Yeah thanks Facepunch. that is what i meant when i said “yet”. I have 8 different characters (one of each class) and am thinking about making another warrior and guardian and am working on kiting them out. I am planning on doing exactly what you said. Get about 150-200 gold put it in my personal guild bank and not take any money out of my other bank or characters. Not sure how long it is going to be until i actually start doing this but they are only cosmetic items so i’m not in a rush.

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Posting a thread beforehand worked for Blurry, it had better work for me! I’m spending the night tossing rare level 80 greatswords into the forge, I’ll update with the happy news as soon as soon as I have it!

Hi, how many greatswords did you use? if you can remember haha

Hey constaz, I’m sorry but I didn’t count. This wasn’t the first time I had thrown a lot of greatswords into the forge and since I didn’t count in the past it didn’t make sense to start counting on this attempt. I can tell you it was relatively few in this sitting because I was only doing it for a couple of hours before I got it, and those hours included putting in orders, waiting for a bunch to be filled, and then going to toss in batches at a time. My best guess would be around 150 greatswords that night.