Guild Wars 2

I have a Donation Package. I put that into the forge. I also have a stack of planks and a stack of ingots in my inventory. When I put in the packaging and the Planks or the ingots the other one is shaded out and the forge button remains unavailable. What exactly must I enter to forge commendations? I have already successfully packaged weapons and armor and received commendations for those. This seems overly complicated and frustrating. What am I doing wrong?

You need three stacks of 10 for food/ingots/stuff like that. That said, my significant other was unable to donate mithril bars for some reason. Once he put mithril bars in the forge, everything else grayed out and he couldn’t package them.

Thank you for your reply. I did try that, but it didn’t seem to work with wood planks.

You need three different kinds of planks. Check out Duffy’s marvelous guide at http://dulfy.net/2012/11/16/gw2-lost-shores-update-consolidated-info/

Cool that is a great guide.

However, after I saw the commendation rate you get for the donations I lost the minuscule amount of desire I had to participate at all in this fail whale of an event. I hate to be negative, but my will is broken for events like this. How are we supposed to realize you have to put in 3 levels of materials? Is figuring that out a challenging activity in a fun way? Was there anything at all anywhere to indicate you needed to do that? If I’m just being to critical someone tell me so.

Mystic Forge is always more than I want to deal with. Besides, you can get the skins for karma and exotics for cheaper coin expense, so this isn’t the only chance to get them, and 250-use gathering tools are nice but not vital.

I try not to go to guides until I’ve done all my own experimenting (didn’t touch a cooking guide until I got to 400), but with the Forge I’m happy to let others spend the mats.