Guild Wars 2

I made a ticket about this, but I figured I would post here as well.
Last week, I forged the set (as in nonrandom) Mystic Forge recipe consisting of:
1 Eldritch Scroll, 40 Mystic Coins, 100 Orichalcum Ingots, and 20 Charged Lodestones and I received a Mystic Artifact. Up until that point the recipe for the Mystic Artifact was assumed bugged, as the logical pattern to follow for the Mystic weapons resulted in nothing. I simply assumed that I had found the actual recipe, and you had made this item harder to obtain than other Mystic weapons for your own reasons. Prior to this anyone who had tried the recipe I used had not divulged its results to the wider community, either through laziness, apathy, or greed. I reported the results on several active high traffic discussions about the Mystic Forge, and went on my merry way. Yay me.
As it turns out the recipe was, in fact, bugged. The real recipe was the expected 30 coins, 1 scroll, 5 t6 crafting item A, 5 t6 crafting item B formula as all the other Mystic weapons. The true result of the recipe I used is still unknown.
I have not equipped or sold my Mystic Artifact so the hopeful result of this is that it is removed and replaced with the item I should have received, or the materials I put into the Mystic Forge.
As I don’t actually care about the gold/item outside of knowing what the recipe creates for the sake of the Mystic Forge testing community, I’ll also accept an ingame picture of the real recipe result.

Thank you for your time.

Another potential bug:
Just attempted the recipe:
1 Eldritch Scroll + 50 Mystic Coins + 250 Ancient Wood Planks + 1 Giant Eye and received a Mystic Staff.
I’m wondering if these are bugs or are there simply more than one recipe for Mystic weapons?

If its intentional….thats a huge difference in material requirements. If it’s bugged I would appreciate dev input so that we can get the word out on sites that catalogue attempted and unattempted recipes. These are expensive endeavors, after all.

Still waiting on word if this is intentional or not.

Even a “fix incoming” or “working as intended” would be sufficient at this point.

I had the Ancient Plank yields Mystic Staff crap too… their response when I pointed out a bug thread (earlier they told me “check the wiki”)

“As for your request for item replacement, we do not have the ability to spawn or generate items. This is a security measure that I understand very well, for as one of the ArenaNet founders told me years ago, “If you encode the ability to spawn items into the game for the use of staff members, someone external to the company will inevitably hack that ability and the game economy could be drastically damaged.” So we’re not in the position of giving away items, either as replacements or compensation. "

They also mentioned it should have made Melandru’s Eye (another exotic staff) instead and that it would be fixed in a day or two (so it should be now).

TO ARENANET: If you want people to keep playing your game (and thus buy your expansions) you need to confront your mistakes. If YOUR game is bugged and takes someones mats which required him to farm 15 hours to get and gives him a cookie cutter item that he could have gotten in 45 minutes, YOU need to replace it with what it was intended to give him! You speak of ruining your economy? It hurts your economy to steal 15g of mats from an innocent player too. When something like this happens, it will make many people never want to risk mats in the Mystic Forge again, and for some of them (like me) getting your hopes up and playing an incredibly long time to get an item and then get trash for it instead, and being told you won’t do anything about it, gets them depressed about the game because they don’t feel like starting another project after all that time and work and getting nothing. So instead I play less and less, play other games, and become very casual to the point where I will eventually stop (lack of end game content doesn’t help much)… want me to stay? Give me what I have earned. I can handle bugs, but not bugs which I am not compensated for. I give you a screenshot proving the mats I put into the forge and what came out, I have paid the said price for the item, I should be given that item, plain and simple.

You got a point. You should really be compensated…