Mystic Forge Recipes
Hey everyone!
So, I’ve been using the mystic forge a lot (specially during events where you can make event specific stuff from it, like christmas and all that, even for siege in WvW) and I don’t know about you, but the amount of clicks is starting to get to me.
Besides having wrist pain due to work, the sheer amount of time it takes to get anything done is ridiculous.
Now I know ANet have already said that the Mystic Forge can’t have recipes due to some of them having unpredictable results (such as 4 different weapons giving you a chance of just about any weapon at all), but what about the fixed result ones? The ones such as christmas presents, WvW Siege, some weapons that are crafted there too! Can we not get, along with the resulting fixed item, a recipe we can unlock for one of the crafting professions so we can make them faster without all that clicking?
For example, I was making just now 250 superior siege… it’s rather painful, both figuratively and literally.
Hope to hear some good ideas/points from everyone on how this could be improved!
The painful and time consuming process of mass forging is the biggest reason some of the mystic forge recipes are profitable because many players rather pile up their skill points/spirit shards than turning them into gold because its utterly boring.
It would surely be a quality of life improvement, if you could make 50 superior siege blueprints at a time but then profit margins would shrink immensly.
If thats what you want, they might as well introduce a superior siege vendor in wvw, where you can buy 50 superior blueprints for 50 regular blueprints, 50 spirit shards and a stack each of mithril and elder.
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The painful and time consuming process of mass forging is the biggest reason some of the mystic forge recipes are profitable because many players rather pile up their skill points/spirit shards than turning them into gold because its utterly boring.
I agree with Wanze: the reason there’s profit to be made is that most of us prefer to do something easier. Compare to ordinary crafting: most things don’t generate much profit on average; those that do often involve karma ingredients (which most people can’t be bothered to re-stock).
tl;dr ANet probably wants mystic forge upgrade recipes to be tedious and time consuming, for the in-game economy.
Repetitive motion stress is an unintended consequence of the mechanic, generally affecting a narrower part of the community.
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Thing is, some of us are in WvW guilds. Where superior siege is actually used, a lot. It’s not really about the profit (though sometimes it is), it’s about a QoL point. I did like the idea of those sieges being at the vendor, but what about the rest of the items that are craftable at the Mystic Forge?
We’ve found a second solution for the siege, hopefully more come out for the rest of the content!