Guild Wars 2

I thought I just wasn’t paying attention all this time, but I made sure by doing it again and recording.

I only get 78 exotics back from supplying four 80 exotics.

I noticed it started happening with mystic forge stones 2-3 months ago, so I stopped using them. I thought with four 80s I would circumvent whatever prompted the change, but it didn’t change anything.

That was part of one of the updates to the forge ages ago. It is unfortunately not a bug and is intended. Sometimes at least the level 76-78 exotic you get back at least has a good rune/sigil. The same applies when you toss in 4 lvl 80 rares.

If you are forge tossing, lvl 76-80 is what you can input and get a precursor. You also receive lvl76-80 items as intended.