Guild Wars 2

From my experience with my guildies I can say that the mystic forge creates a gap between players. The ones who use wiki and other www-sources regularly and the others (like most of my guildies) who don’t read outside-sources and have no clue how to work with the mystic forge.

To speak for myself: I don’t like the design-choice that infos like that aren’t in the game. There is a community playing the game, why can’t there be a way to let people know of such recipes IN the game?

example (spontaneous, sure there are much better ways):
-) when you’ve found a new recipe, you get a recipe-unlock in a mystic-forge-interface-tab. Now you can share this recipe with your guild, your friends,… whoever you like. When shared, the person can open a crafting-window when visiting the forge.

-) you can buy a “recipe pergament” which has 4 empty slots. You put in the ingredients of one of the mystic-forge-recipes. If the recipe exists, the pergament transforms into a new pergament: “recipe of …(item you’ll get out)…” without losing the materials you put in. Now you can sell this recipe in the trading post or give it to your friends.

-) Link it in the chat and others get an unlock for it in a new register, if they click it.

What do you think about the design-decision to use Wiki in order to be most efficient? Do you mind leaving the game in order to find out new recipes, write them down/remember them and return to the game then? Or do you think that only the ones who use those sources earned their Legendaries?

/wiki “Mystic Forge” in your chat.

Kid Taylor.5479:

/wiki “Mystic Forge” in your chat.

which gets me out of the game. I’m talking about a ingame-interface.

Hey man how did you got here? There is no ingame feature to write in this forum, at least I dont know. If there is the game didn’t show me properly. We should try to add an ingame-feature that allows to use the forum ingame. Maybe we call it “browser”.
Don’t you think it is unfair to other players to write here. People that are in the game can’t read the thing you wrote here, unless they tab out of their game or even close it.

It doesn’t feel natural to me. It’s like playing a new Sim City game and instead of having a decent tutorial in the game you have to go to a Sim City Wiki and check what others found out about the mechanics.

I like that some recipes are a secret and people have to find out, that’s why I made those suggestions in the OP. It has nothing to do with making a forum ingame (such a nonsense) but a easy to use interface like the recipe-list for all the other crafting professions.

You no, there is no in-game tutorial for it as it’s “Mystic”.. share in-game mystery with it if you dont want to use other sources. ANet has many other things to do then to create something that already exist.

but why do they implement tutorials then? In WvW there is a tutorial for example. Everone could look up the mechanics in the wiki… sigh

they could scrap the whole recipe-list from our crafting professions, we should find out all the recipes all the time, wouldn’t it be great? Short answer: no it wouldn’t.