Guild Wars 2

I’d like to see a mystic forge recipe that allows us to combine the charges on partially used tools. This could apply to salvage kits, axes, mining picks, and/or harvesting sickles.

I envision this recipe as a way to deal with Black Lion tools, like the Black Lion logging axe and Black Lion salvage kit. Right now, those items have 10 to 25 charges on them. They’re really handy if you’re only opening 1 black lion chest. They’re a nuisance if you’re opening ~5 black lion chests in a row. If you could combine identical tools up to some limit (~100), then perhaps less people would end up deleting the axes and sickles.

It’d also be nice to extend this functionality to other salvage kits. I’d limit the possible combined charges to ~75 so that the mystic salvage kit still has its niche. It’d be nice on other tools as well, but those already have 100 charges so there’s not as much room for improvement.

The recipe should be more complicated than simply combining the existing charges on an item. I’d likely make the recipe take 2 identical items with varying charges, X mystic coins in the third slot, and some other component in the 4th slot. This is a convenience, so there should be a cost associated with the recipe. I’d personally make the 4th component vary with tool level or salvage kit type, and choose a crafting component that’s appropriately leveled to the corresponding content. For crude salvage kits, it’d likely be 1 mystic coin and 5 blueberries (walnuts? cinnamon sticks? green wood logs?). For the Black Lion salvage kits, it’d be somewhat more expensive components. Black Lion tool recipes would need to have costs on the low side to encourage use.