Guild Wars 2

I haven’t used the mystic forge for awhile but while working on the dungeoneer title I’ve had an abundance of exotic armor laying around with no use.

I bought a set of level 80 exotic light armor (specifically the Rabid stat) from the CM dungeon vendor (6 pieces).

I put in the first 3 pieces and a mystic forge stone and received a level 78 helmet.

I put the last 3 pieces and a mystic forge stone in and received a level 76 chestpiece.

I was under the impression that using a forge stone with 3 pieces of similarly leveled gear would simply use the average level of those pieces (ie 3 level 80’s means it should count as level 80).

So, why would I get level 76 and 78 gear from putting in level 80 exotics?

This is a change that was implemented some time ago. When the Mystic Forge output was updated.

No idea of the purpose, just letting you know it seems to be intentional.

Because they prefer if you spend your money to buy gold → rare gear to put into the mystic forge rather than get it ‘for free’ from dungeons? I don’t know.

It’s intentional. It’s irritating, but it’s intentional.

wouldnt worry about it too much, for example theres 1 or 2(?) 80 pieces with strength runes slotted, but theres a couple more sub 80 pieces. and you wont get a pre out of 3 armors + forge stone anyways.

Yeah. They wanted to give us a “wider range of results”, which is dev-speak for “more junk that you actually don’t want”. So now the Mystic Toilet can give you items that are lower level than what you flushed.

Are we having fun yet?

bummer. well, its not like its going to stop me since there is no other use for the stuff but taking up space, just thought it was weird. i’ll update the wiki post later.