Guild Wars 2

So while looking for a nice pair of exotic pistols for my engie, I noticed that there seems to be a lack of unique pistol and rifle recipes that one could use in the Mystic Forge unlike melee weapons like Volcanus. My question is why? Why does there seem to be a lack of more modern weapons(rifles, pistols) recipes you could use in the forge? Other than mystic weapons, there is only two recipes for pistols: Lyss and Ilya; not even a rifle recipe…it seems disappointing to those like myself who love their rifles and pistols.

It is almost certain that all possible recipes have not been discovered and publicly posted yet. I think that the people who are posting the recipes they find aren’t approaching it from all possible angles, which would explain other weirdness like the comparatively high amount of foci discovered thus far: foci are likely all made using the same general formula, that being the one that the public researchers are exploring.

I’ve noticed that, I was thinking of trying something similar with the Lyss recipe and just subbing the ecto with something else such as lodestones. Unfortunately I don’t have the materials available right now to test this theory just yet.

Terazeal.1976:

It is almost certain that all possible recipes have not been discovered and publicly posted yet. I think that the people who are posting the recipes they find aren’t approaching it from all possible angles, which would explain other weirdness like the comparatively high amount of foci discovered thus far: foci are likely all made using the same general formula, that being the one that the public researchers are exploring.

Pretty much every combination of recipe has been found already. You can see every pistol and rifle in the game just by going to gw2db. They data mined so everyone knows whats in the the game or not. Also I am sure they will add more weapons to the game.

or rather, not many people are willing to experiment on such not-so-much-sought-after weapons like rifles and pistols.

oZii.2864:

Terazeal.1976:

It is almost certain that all possible recipes have not been discovered and publicly posted yet. I think that the people who are posting the recipes they find aren’t approaching it from all possible angles, which would explain other weirdness like the comparatively high amount of foci discovered thus far: foci are likely all made using the same general formula, that being the one that the public researchers are exploring.

Pretty much every combination of recipe has been found already. You can see every pistol and rifle in the game just by going to gw2db. They data mined so everyone knows whats in the the game or not. Also I am sure they will add more weapons to the game.

Do you know this for a fact? Can you link a discussion or something that proves this to be true? Otherwise you’re just speculating.

Yes, we know every skin in the game from GW2DB, but that database doesn’t show how to achieve those items so we have no way of knowing if a skin is from a drop or from the mystic forge.

I highly doubt we’ve exhausted the mystic forge’s recipes, especially seeing as there are only TWO staffs on the wiki list, one of those being the Halloween staff.
There are even some mystic forge specific skins which have been discovered by players who won’t share their recipes.

Ps – I’m not trying to be rude, I just think we should try to keep as much misinformation about the forge to a minimum since it can be hard for someone trying to find out about the MF what is true and what isn’t.

Kursor.5746:

oZii.2864:

Terazeal.1976:

It is almost certain that all possible recipes have not been discovered and publicly posted yet. I think that the people who are posting the recipes they find aren’t approaching it from all possible angles, which would explain other weirdness like the comparatively high amount of foci discovered thus far: foci are likely all made using the same general formula, that being the one that the public researchers are exploring.

Pretty much every combination of recipe has been found already. You can see every pistol and rifle in the game just by going to gw2db. They data mined so everyone knows whats in the the game or not. Also I am sure they will add more weapons to the game.

Do you know this for a fact? Can you link a discussion or something that proves this to be true? Otherwise you’re just speculating.

Yes, we know every skin in the game from GW2DB, but that database doesn’t show how to achieve those items so we have no way of knowing if a skin is from a drop or from the mystic forge.

I highly doubt we’ve exhausted the mystic forge’s recipes, especially seeing as there are only TWO staffs on the wiki list, one of those being the Halloween staff.
There are even some mystic forge specific skins which have been discovered by players who won’t share their recipes.

Ps – I’m not trying to be rude, I just think we should try to keep as much misinformation about the forge to a minimum since it can be hard for someone trying to find out about the MF what is true and what isn’t.

If you follow the crafting forum and the wiki mystic forge list you would have noticed that there hasn’t been a weapon discovered that wasn’t in the gw2db database. So if you find that there are no cool pistol/rifle/staff skins available don’t get your hopes up that there are undiscovered mf recipes, because there aren’t.