Guild Wars 2

So… I have regularly used the 250 Silk Scraps, 1 Gossamer Scrap, 5 Crystalline Dust, 10 Phelo Stones to make Gossamer Scraps. Today I decided to use Bolts of Silk and a Bolt of Gossamer instead… and what did I get?

I am one sad Tailor.

I’ll take them!

is that random ?

More like a pesky bug.

I just wish Orichalcum Ingots were worth the same as Gossamer… ((goes looking for a Gossamer node))

>.<

Are 20 Gossamer scraps really the same price as 250 silk scraps?

I will say that the mystic forge hates me too…

The other night took 4 Identical level 80 bows (bought 3 of the matching ones off the TP) hoping to up them or at least get a skin I liked and what did it return…. 1 of the same bow I used…..

Pure theft…. and lame… oh well.

This is unfortunately the downside of gambling. Sometimes you win, but more often than not, you lose.

Actually its more like “Put 25 cents in, and your gauranteed to at least get a piece of candy”.
It’s actually an excellent gamble compared to ‘lottery’ as you are GUARANTEED to at least get back what you put in. If you put in 4 rares, you’ll at LEAST get a rare. So, thats a 25% return on investment gauranteed. Compared to salvaging, where you salvage a gold, and you may get a log worth 40 copper, or you may get a Glob of ecto worth 20 silver.

Granted it stinks…I’ve done the same, and can’t afford to at this time. I bought 4 rare staffs hoping for an exotic. And got a rare staff in return. It sucked, but investing one gold on random gamble, and getting 25 silver back, was actually a decent return on a gamble none the less. I would love such odds at a casino table.

On a side note…In this case, I do empathize… I would have REALLY expected you to get Gossamer…maybe submit on the bug forums?

Seems like the same issue here, also with bolts: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/sigh-Mystic-Forge-you-make-me-cry

I can confirm that this happens when trying to upgrade silk bolts to gossamer bolts…I got pretty lucky though and got 40 ingots but still would’ve liked to get gossamer as they were worth 2x the price of ingots.

I used 250 Silk Bolts, 1 Gossamer Bolt, max tier Dust, and the Phelo stones. In that order and got the ingots. I don’t want to attempt that recipe again because it is quite draining on the pocket book.

At least I’m not crazy and someone else has had this happen.

What about we get an actual recipe list for the forge, that way we’ll be able to tell if it was unlucky or not working as intended?

It would be awesome if this list included 100% chance recipes for mystic clovers and Legendary Precursors. :P

So I went ahead and tried out making gossemer from silk… After burning through 10 stacks of silk I ended up losing an average of 11s per conversion. (i.e the cost of selling the stack of silk + 1 gossemer + 5 dust, got me 11s more then if I just sold the amount of gossemer I received from the forge).

This holds true as long as you average <20 gossemer scraps per conversion. I ended up getting: 25,17,17,13,19,23,17,17,19,18 from my 10 attempts.

That was as much as I wanted to try, and 10 isn’t large in the grand scheme of things, but I still lost over a gold trying it.

So If I were you i’d stop with the forge and just sell the silk.

That was scraps though, which is still, only half the value of bolts. The issue is presumably, that they put in the ‘refined’ version of the scraps, and it thus returned a refined version of a completely different material.

The Mystic Forge is a Giant Maw of Despair That Will Eat Everything Dear to You.

ChairGraveyard.2967:

The Mystic Forge is a Giant Maw of Despair That Will Eat Everything Dear to You.

How is this for sad.

4 mystic swords hoping to get Zap of Rage…

I got a Exotic Conch…….

this thread is just another PROOF why RNG is a truely bad game design descision. i really hope someday anet will consider making a way to get the things needed for legendary by 100% chance. even if it takes forever i rather fram triple the amount of ori ingots than even try to mess with RNG ever again after playing aion tower of RNG back then.

this is a game. it shouldnt act as colorful SLOTMASCHINE. get rid if this RNG bs please.
you said yourself you are gonna break the rules of old mmo mechanics. so get rid of these aswell. they just suck the fun out of the game. its the main reason i will never bother to make legendarys. because even if you WIN at rng after a extremly long time the day with that expansion/content patch will come and destroy your work by introducing something much cooler.

after aion i decided to never bother with RNG based rewards ever again. this a kitten mechanic.

nuff said.

the mystic forge is a win-machine. you tried to fail and you won instead. that’s awesome.