Guild Wars 2

Is there any good ways to use it? I know at some point you need it for Legendary Weapons, to get clovers or something like that, but i mean something that you can do on a ‘daily’ basis and that ends up on a good way of using items that otherwise would be useless. I say this because i was told you could get nice runes by combining 4diff minor runes in there, and i had no idea. Usually i sell those for 16copper each, so 64c which isn’t much, so if i could actually get a good rune it could be a good option. I read somewhere too that you could combine masterwork pieces to get rare ones, but it didn’t work the times i tried, and since i can use luck for my MF i think im better off by just salvaging it.

Are there some other ways to use the Mystic Forge? And from your experience which ones are more worth to give it a try?

If you’re trying to upgrade something (like masterwork to rare) there’s only a 20% chance of it happening. I don’t think there’s a truly profitable way to make use of the thing

There is… mystic forging the lowest level runes/sigils can get you a profit on the mid-level runes/sigils. And you’ll get a LOT of those by using green salvage kits on masterworks.

It’s profitable because it takes so much invo space people would rather just NPC the things. The return rate is 1/5 forges. Each random forge uses 4 items – but if it fails, returns you 1, so you’re practically looking at a 1/16 (because the last one isn’t exactly returned – it’s promoted) exchange rate on promotion. Look at the item prices for yourself and decide. If the result prices on average are more than 16 times the price of the lower-rank components, it’s profitable.

Mystic forging masterworks used to be profitable back in the day when rares were 30 silver and masterworks were like 80 copper, before the whole luck thing came about. No longer. It’s probably partially my fault, but that’s a long story.

Don’t mystic-forge rares because the average price of rares is 40 silver ish now and exotics are on average about 2 gold, even after accounting for the higher priced ones. To break even they need to be worth 7 gold or more ON AVERAGE.

Mystic forging exotics is for those who want legendaries. At any rate where a precursor chance is arbitrarily set to ‘x’, the rate of legendary promotion from rares is 1/4x, while the rate of legendary promotion from exotics is x. Since cheap exotics are available for 1 gold or so…

You do the math.

Mystic Forging Corrupted, Molten, Charged and I think Onyx cores into lodestones is also generally profitable and also one of the only ways to really use the skill points the game will spam you with later on.

Read the wiki page, if you want to know, how the MF works:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge

I agree with everything Hayashi said.
whenever the daily forge ach is up, first thing I do is go on the TP and buy 20 major sigils for ~2s50c each = 50s. throw them in the forge, you’ll statistically get 4 majors and 1 superior out (last night I got 2 majors and 3 superiors). 1 superior sells for ~60s on average, throw the 4 majors back in for a chance at another superior.

You can also use the forge to upgrade t5 mats to t6. Although some of them require a lot of the t5 mats, it’s useful if you have a bunch of them lying around. Granted you may have to farm/buy the Piles of Crystalline dust and use skill points for the Philosopher Stones. If you are a farmer and salavger like me, you’ll have tons of t5 mats. You may not get rich doing that, but you might be able to turn a small profit.

Buy crystalline dust… what?

Do the world bosses, they will always drop rares in the daily account chest and very often 1-2 rares in the daily character chest (and if you’re an altoholic like me, you can do the boss once per character – I do this a lot to get more dragonite from Golem Mark II).

Salvage rares (40s) with mystic kits, get 0-3 ecto (40s ea).

Salvage ecto with mystic kits, get 1-5 crystalline dust (20s ea).

PROMOTE PROMOTE PROMOTE XD

P.S. Salvaging ectoplasm has an ESPECIALLY high rate of dropping luck items.

50 potent blood (1.25 gold) + 1 powerful blood (40 s) + 5 crystalline dust (1 g) + 5 philo stones (0.5 SP) – total, 2.65g cost + 0.5 SP.

Result – 5 (2g) -12 (4.8g) powerful blood.

Go figure.

Then save up all the t6 mats you make in preparation for the Gifts of Magic/Might.

Meow.

I feed my excess crystalline dust, together with the gold and crystals from dungeons, bloodstone dust from chests and dragonite, farm the rest of the mats from nodes and spam-create ascendeds while doing this.

That works too…although I am saving up my ectos for a legenday so salvaging them isn’t the best way to go.

Thanks very much for all the tips, just learnt quite a few things
But one question – not related with the MF itself, but it was said and i didn’t know it worked like that – so the daily reward from every boss event isn’t acc wide, but rather 1per character? So only the chest reward itself is 1per account?

edit: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/How-do-boss-chests-work i suppose that answers it.