How do you use the mystic forge?
I’d /wiki Mystic Forge for a full rundown.
Meanwhile, some pitfalls: You will almost 100% of the time get out less value than you put in. You toss in four of the same sort of thing (sigils, runes, armor, weapons are most common) of the same rarity as each other. You get one item back. Generally it’s something very similar to the things you put in, so toss in 4 green minor sigils, get 1 green minor sigil back. Lots of random. Extremely rarely you might get a nicer item, and you can try to influence what that is by selecting your input. So 4 rare greatswords might return an exotic greatsword, and that exotic might be a precursor. It’s possible to put in thousands of greatswords and never get a precursor.
There are some guaranteed recipes (found on the wiki). To me the most day to day useful one is putting in one each of a fine, masterwork, and rare salvage kit along with 3 mystic stones (those stack in one forge slot) to get a mystic salvage kit. It salvages at rare kit level and has 250 charges, far more than the 75 charges on the kits you put in.
It’s not extremely rare. It’s a 20% chance you will get an item one quality level higher. Overall, the average is 16 lesser in, 1 higher out. The thing is that there are very, very few items that one quality value higher is 16x, realistically 18.9x with TP tax, higher than the value you put in.
Actually Donari lists pretty much the one thing that is worth more, converting masterwork, green, runes into rare, yellow, ones. But the profit is minuscule and you need to be very selective about buying green masterwork runes, only those at the minimum purchase price.
There are items you can craft from the forge and you can promote lower tier mats to higher ones, although at the moment a great deal of profit has been squeezed out of that market.
The wiki is your friend.
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