I’ve decided to acquire my precursor purely through the mystic forge (and dragons and dungeons and such but you get the idea). I’ve saved up about 110g and I’d rather not build up another 100g (goin for the shield) just to end up squandering it all on a weapon that i’m not even going to use when it could be put to much better use buying up other materials needed for the process.
Now we all know it’s affectionately called the Mystic Toilet. Aside from known recipes it’s pure RNG with that blasted thing so the majority might call it a financial waste.
Luckily I’m not the impatient type. 4 of the cheapest level 70+ exo shields cost about 3 and a half gold. My return is almost always guaranteed to make me back 1 and a half gold so the loss isn’t as big deal.
At best I’ll pop 4 shields in 3 times, never allowing myself to go below 100 gold unless i just need that extra bit of silver. What the forge returns to me will typically make me back about half of what I spent. That money is then used to try again, again, never allowing myself to go below 100.
after about 15 or so tries i’ve had two named exos come back (Grimward and Jora’s Defender). They are cheap to buy, not being much more than 2 gold but they are STILL named.
Other times I’ll get a shaman’s etched shield of some sort and depending on the type, those can be worth 15-17 gold which is a serious gain and provides the means to try at least three more times.
In the future I’ll keep any named shields I receive until I get 4. I’ve heard chances are better with named exos.
My point is that the MF is a completely viable way of acquiring a precursor if you have patience and I say that without even having gotten my precursor yet. My desire to have fallback funds outweighs my impatience. lol
With all that being said I’d like to ask you guys what your success rate has been with forging your precursors? What did you use? What did you find you had better luck with? That kind of stuff.
cheers
