Guild Wars 2

Just wondering if the changes to the forge were done?

The mystic forge changes are a work in progress. What I will promise is that when it is done you will like it much better than you do now.

Since this post they changed the forge so we get more “variation”. This includes getting non-80 level exotics from 4 lvl 80 exotics.

Also wondering if the players like this change?

No.

Ahh so you don’t like the changes. Thanks Wanze for your input!

A greater range of rewards is devspeak for “more junk that you don’t want or need”.

Of course we don’t like it. Anet cares?

The only silver lining is that you can now get a greater variety of superior sigils from the exotics you get from the MF, some of which are worth quite a lot.

Personally I hope Anet will let us MF superior sigils and runes soon-ish. It would raise the base worth of all superior sigils/runes and would lower the worth (at least temporarily) of the current high-value ones.

Slightly off-topic. I just came back to the game last week. When I played over 6 months ago, I used to get 2-3 rare pieces from dungeons. Now I’m lucky if I get even ONE. Also, when killing mobs in the open world, I got loot (whether trash or materials) from every 4 out of 5 kills. Now I’m seeing it 1 out of every 5. What happened?

Allelya.6830:

Slightly off-topic. I just came back to the game last week. When I played over 6 months ago, I used to get 2-3 rare pieces from dungeons. Now I’m lucky if I get even ONE. Also, when killing mobs in the open world, I got loot (whether trash or materials) from every 4 out of 5 kills. Now I’m seeing it 1 out of every 5. What happened?

Were you using MF gear before? If so look at your stats now and see what level of base MF your character has.

Bartas.4908:

Allelya.6830:

Slightly off-topic. I just came back to the game last week. When I played over 6 months ago, I used to get 2-3 rare pieces from dungeons. Now I’m lucky if I get even ONE. Also, when killing mobs in the open world, I got loot (whether trash or materials) from every 4 out of 5 kills. Now I’m seeing it 1 out of every 5. What happened?

Were you using MF gear before? If so look at your stats now and see what level of base MF your character has.

It was during the change from the MF gear to the account-wide MF percentage. I was getting a lot of stuff then, with a lower MF percentage. I’m over 80 percent now and my drops are less. I really feel they’ve nerfed drop rates in some way.

Been playing for about 2 years, casually mind you, only had 2 exotics drop for me, both from Ulgoth, that’s why to this day I’d rather do him than Tequatl & Jormag…

Anyway, I literally just discovered the Mystic Forge two weeks ago, and started pumping in all my world-boss rares from bonus chest.

7 exotics, since I started kittening around with forge, 13 days ago.

I like it.

Mind you I started pumping these exotics in forge for something cooler and get lower level exotics, and lost them all in about 2 min. So on that note, is it stupid to forge exotics? What can I get that’s better? I don’t know kitten about legendary or precursors or postcursors.

I think part of what was implemented was a greater likelihood of getting some of the rarer exotic set skins (ceremonial, tribal, etched). So if you were in the market for filling out your wardrobe, you had a better chance of finding something you didn’t have.

The changes are supposed to be ongoing. And no one seems to be happy about where things are right now, because they see it as a hindrance on their money-making and precursor generating.