Guild Wars 2

I decided to get rid of some exotic leftovers by mystic forging them but apparently you can’t combine exotic armor and weapons.

I must be missing something bleeding obvious here but the wiki seem to indicate that it should be possible.

“Four pieces of equipment of the same quality can be combined in the forge. The input can be weapons, armor, trinkets, or any combination of thereof.”

What am I missing?

Are they all the same level?

Wanze.8410:

Are they all the same level?

The original ones were lvl 78 armor and lvl 80 weapons, but even my second set of armor i’m using got greyed out when selecting a lvl 80 exotic weapon. I tested with weapons non-soulbound, non-accountbound (ready to sell) and all armor got greyed out when it was selected in the mystic forge. It’s all very weird.

I think the only limitation is that weapons can’t be mixed with other types. I believe armor and trinkets can be mixed, including the different armor types. Just can’t mingle weapons in there. They do all have to be the same rarity (can’t do rare + exotic)

Mystic.5934:

I think the only limitation is that weapons can’t be mixed with other types. I believe armor and trinkets can be mixed, including the different armor types. Just can’t mingle weapons in there. They do all have to be the same rarity (can’t do rare + exotic)

If that’s the case it’s a new(er) change, I know once upon a time we can mf weapons with armor/trinkets just as long as they were the same rarity unless I stopped and just stuck with weapons with each other for bigger chances at precursors.

Exotics weapons and armour have not been able to be mixed for a while now., if indeed you were ever able to mix them. I know that they were unmixable last year.

And here is a link to a forum topic

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Myst-Forge-Can-t-Mix-Weapons-and-Armor

The other OLD topic raised the question, “why should Exotics be different than Rares?”, and I think the answer WAS that there is no promotion tier for Exotics……but, now there is. Shouldn’t this be looked into for a “new” method to potentially obtain Ascended gear? (Now that Ascended is kind of established)

except Anet doesn’t change something just because it should be different; they need a reason to change it, like there are so many exotics in the game that they sell for 10s and something needs to be done to drain the exotics from the game.

Mystic.5934:

except Anet doesn’t change something just because it should be different; they need a reason to change it, like there are so many exotics in the game that they sell for 10s and something needs to be done to drain the exotics from the game.

At some point, I feel they will want to make Ascended gear easier to obtain (possibly not quite yet). There is also a drastic NEED for something to do with NPC purchased Exotics at this point in the game.