Guild Wars 2

I can no longer combine weapons and armor in mystic forge. Most people in map chat in Lion’s Arch on my server seem to believe it is still possible, and I can’t find any information pertaining to this change when searching the net about it. Is this an intentional change, or a bug? It definitely used to be that you could combine weapons and armor in mystic forge…

I was trying to combine some exotic weapons and armor that I had and have fun rolling the dice; soulbound or not made no difference.

You can only mix up to rares, not exotic. Its pretty much always been that way.

Thank you! Funnily enough, I was just posting in a thread about how this game is confusing to new players and this is another example where the game mechanics are arbitrary and unintuitive. Why should exotic gear be treated different than rare gear? I can actually understand some reasons why (having to do with different currencies, changing karma into gold, the fact precursors and legendaries exist for weapons and not armor, etc), but this is a distinction between the mystic forge mechanics for exotic vs rare doesn’t make a lot of “in universe” sense, it’s just arbitrary design that players have to learn the hard way.