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Mystic Forge bugs
Has anyone else noticed Mystic Forge bug which gives a diffrent item than intended?
Today I threw in 4 rare clothes item, from level 41 to 55 and I get back a green soulbound gloves (Improved Excavator’s Gloves level 55) That’s a downgrade. And forgot to mention I’m a Ranger and the gloves are for Mesmer or Elementist and it’s soulbound to me a Ranger…
A week ago I threw in 4 Exotic Greatswords all level 80 in Forge, I get back an Exotic Horn. To me that’s a downgrade. That happend 4 times already, throwing in 4 of the same items and getting some other weapon back. Has the Mystic Forge changed and is this supposed to happen randomly or is it a bug?
There are several mechanics involved that are conflated here.
- The forge sometimes returns soulbound items, usually low- and mid-tier gear when there aren’t many vendor/TP options — especially true for low level trinkets. If you don’t want stuff that might be bound incorrectly, then switch toons before forging.
- The forge generally returns an item that is a few levels above the average level of the inputs. According to your post, you gave it items from 41-55, so a L55 item back isn’t unusual.
- In all the 1,000s of forges I’ve done (and done by buddies of mine), I’ve never seen a downgrade of rarity. It seems more likely that the inputs were 4 greens, not 4 rares, especially since I can’t find any rare armor that is L41.
- Similarly, I know of no documented example of throwing in 4 exotics of the same weapon type and getting a different weapon in return. In every example that allows verification, it’s turned out that someone through in a mystic stone or a weapon with a similar icon by mistake.
Now, software this complex can always do unexpected things. However, given that we’re not seeing lots of reports of this on Reddit or elsewhere, it seems more likely that there are other explanations for what you are seeing, rather than a new or old bug.
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The rare clothes items were from story, and they were 100% rare not green. (And could have been level 35 or so, dunno for sure. The 4GS were for daily so I bought 4 exotics. I reported it that day aswell, the 3 times before it annoyed me, but didn’t report it yet. If I’m gambeling then it’s always 4 of the same, so yea I’m sure it was the same weapontype. Unfortunely screenshots don’t help and only a video would help to show it. But it’s not like i will make a video every single time I gamble. And this only has happend the last few months. Before I never had it happen and trust me, I’ve gambled more than 15000 weapons.
The rare clothes items were from story, and they were 100% rare not green. (And could have been level 35 or so, dunno for sure. The 4GS were for daily so I bought 4 exotics. I reported it that day aswell, the 3 times before it annoyed me, but didn’t report it yet. If I’m gambeling then it’s always 4 of the same, so yea I’m sure it was the same weapontype. Unfortunely screenshots don’t help and only a video would help to show it. But it’s not like i will make a video every single time I gamble. And this only has happend the last few months. Before I never had it happen and trust me, I’ve gambled more than 15000 weapons.
I’ll start paying closer attention and ask my fellow students of Toiletry to do the same. If you have a reddit account, you might reach out to the community there, too — Toileteers have posted a lot of well-documented data there.
(I really hope you just made a mistake — those would be terrible and difficult to replicate bugs.)
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I normally don’t report these things, but 4 times is too much and it cost me a lot of money, not talking about a few gold here.
I normally don’t report these things, but 4 times is too much and it cost me a lot of money, not talking about a few gold here.
I’ve resisted running tests in BWEs because (a) I’d prefer to actually try out the new profs and (b) I would hate to get a precursor from the forge in BETA. But given your reports, I might do that now — hard to get enough data otherwise, without paying more than I want to for SCIENCE.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
A week ago I threw in 4 Exotic Greatswords all level 80 in Forge, I get back an Exotic Horn. To me that’s a downgrade. That happend 4 times already, throwing in 4 of the same items and getting some other weapon back. Has the Mystic Forge changed and is this supposed to happen randomly or is it a bug?
More than likely, what you thought were four items of the same type, weren’t. There are a lot of sword and spear icons that look like greatswords. Maces are easy to confuse with scepters for the same reason.
I’d like to say you made a mistake on the rares, but I’m willing to trust you can tell yellow from green. An upgrade hasn’t been guaranteed by Anet, but I doubt they’d knowingly screw someone by giving them back lower quality gear. Maybe the forge gave you someone else’s result.
Well I appreciate it, I’ll record next time since I’ll be gambeling again soon. Almost enough gold to begin. But I hope it doesn’t happen of course. And @Sariel, once maybe, but 4 times no. Besides when I bought the 4 GS exotic I selected GS on TP search. Unless you gonna tell me that TP was bugged and I mistaken the GS? I’m asking if people have had the same problem, not for people telling me I was mistaken 4 times.
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