Guild Wars 2

I thought the Forge Always would at least give the same level back? Now it has happened to me on several occasions that I put 4 lvl 80 exotic weapons in and get a 7x level exotic back. Should that even be possible?

Now lastly I put 4 lvl 80 exotic rifles in the Forge and got a lvl 75 exotic rifle back?

The only explanation I myself can come up with is that I have been using dungeon tokens and gotten some dungeon exotics that I have put into the forge. Perhaps the forge doesn’t recognize those as level 80 even though they are?

This change came about some time back. At the time the Mystic Forge results were updated. Six? Nine? months ago?

If you so desire, you can read John Smith’s Dev posts about it, I believe.

Good luck.

Well, searching through John Smiths all dev posts here on the forums doesn’t reveal any explanation…

Unless you count that they made improved distribution Changes to the mystic forge that John Smith thought we would be happy to get. Is that what it is? I am supposed to enjoy getting lvl 75 exotics from putting 4 lvl 80 exotics into the forge now?

The forge was damaged when LA was destroyed you should not trust it anymore just as you should not trust Anet to give you an explanation that makes sense or even fix it.