Guild Wars 2

I just threw in 58 level 80 rare greatswords and I got back 6 exotics. But 5 of them were level 78 and only 1 was level 80. They were all crafted level 80 krait weapons. I thought the forge would always give back an 80. Is It working as intended for it to downgrade the level to level 78 ?

This is a known “issue”. Whether or not it is a “bug” or part of the “wider range of options” Anet intended has yet to be determined. I am unaware of Anet commenting on this “issue”.

Yeah I noticed this too. Unfortunately I noticed it about 80 gold too late. If it’s a bug then fine stuff happens. If it’s an intentional nerf then that just ticks me off.

Make sure you let them know how much you like the changes.

John Smith.4610:

The mystic forge changes are a work in progress. What I will promise is that when it is done you will like it much better than you do now.

I think this might be “working as intended”. What is not intended is that it is an effective reduction in precursor drop rate. If someone’s standard method is to craft a pile of eighty rares, throw them into the forge and then throw the exotics into the forge there will be a lower drop rate of precursors because the exotics are of a lower level. How significant this is I can’t say because ANet don’t give us the numbers to work with. Here is a guess:

300 forgings of rares will on average grant one precursor and 60 exotics.
This gives up to 20 forges with exotics, which used to yield 0.6 of an exotic (0.03 per forge is my guess here)
Now we get 15 forges with lower level exotic and 5 with level 80. Let’s say .02 per forge with lower level exotics, we have 0.3 +0.15=0.45

Yes I’ve fudged the numbers a bit, and the 0.02 is a total guess and the others numbers are guesstimates, but we see the average number of precursors from 3000 rare forgings drop by close to 10%.

Prediction for next patch: “Fixed a bug where mobs were occasionally dropping loot when killed”

It is a bug. I’ve done about 150 forges since patch, and it seems like I’m getting a >80 weapon 43% of the time. I cannot confirm if precursor rates have actually been affected, since I’ve gotten one precursor from forging since patch, but currently I’m on a 100+ cold streak. I’ll update once I get more, but if I manage to get 2-3 more precursors at the rate I found previously (1.1-1.3%) then I can be pretty confident that the rates did not change. Even though I’m not concerned about the costs, the bug still bugs me because if it truly lowers the number of lvl 80’s, then that means less forges I can do for science (I resell lvl 80’s that are worth more).

Well, they did say they would be adjusting the mystic forge, so this is likely working as intended.

So nothing on this yet?

I noticed the same… Feeled like a fool when i told ppl, that the average lvl of the weapons has to be 75+ in order to get lvl 80 weapons back…

I threw in three level 80 exotic armour and a forge stone and got out a level 78 piece of armour. Not that I’m complaining, it had a Rune of Strength on it. But still, it shows that it’s not just rares to exotics that are generating lower level exotic pieces.

What a really weird change in that system and it actually seems to be working as intended.

Is this why spark prices are rising so much? They went up by 200g in the last week and supplies have dried up.

Still waiting on official word from my understanding.

Dima.3429:

Is this why spark prices are rising so much? They went up by 200g in the last week and supplies have dried up.

I doubt that has anything to do with this issue (The statement on these changes was vague EXCEPT they specifically mentioned NO changes being made to precursor chances from the Forge). The rise in price is likely due to more people trying for Legendarys now that they can share the skin with all characters (demand for precursors has gone up).

I suppose this is going to be one of those “Let’s ignore it till people get used to it and forget about it.” topics now.