Guild Wars 2

I just realized this after someone told me, and it’s quite reasonable.

You should forge all your greens that you pick up instead of vendoring them since there is a good chance you’ll get a yellow back. With these current drop rates you can get more rares since the DR for green items is longer.

Let’s say the average yellow is 30s and the average value of a green is 2s. That gives you about 4-5 tries at a yellow before you would match the value of a yellow.

Of course, there is a convenience factor here, but if you have a forge conduit, it shouldn’t be a problem. If cost is a concern, simply go to your WvW borderland and use it there. To port back to where you left just go to the character screen.

Except the “upconvert” rate of the mystic forge appears to be about 15%-18% at the moment. Hence at 8s a pop it costs over 40s to create one rare on average.

I tried this myself long ago and had a good run of luck and made a profit – then I had a run of 18 then a run of 30 without a rare. RNG is what it is but the average return suggests that this is just not viable.

Like anything else if you can buy stuff cheap enough this makes money. It’s not a lot of money. It might even be less money than just reselling the greens you bought cheep.