Guild Wars 2

Logun.5360:

Whatever happened to citing sources? This was posted over 3 days ago in the silver doubloon thread in an attempt to help talk the OP off a ledge.

Well, yanno, ya gotta help out the folks unwilling to read in depth into a thread. /sarcasm

I watched that thread as it was going down, and it was fascinating to watch the market respond to the forum. And now, today, I’ve been watching it skyrocket even further.

Personally, I have very little patience for dealing with the MF; I also haven’t taken the time to delve into it the way MajorKong has done. Other parts of the market, on the other hand – well, y’all just keep throwing pebbles into the forge to get your silver doubloons. Don’t forget about talismans and marks, they can be turned into doubloons as well. :P

TL;DR: when you’re dealing with the mystic forge, the cost of the starting items and the value of the ending item are variable and may fluctuate by the second, and drop rates are really only observable across vast amounts of combines. It can be easy to lose money very quickly if you’re not paying attention to what you’re doing on the MF. In my (biased) opinion, there are faster and surer ways to make money than trying to combine to get a single specific item, because unless you’re silent about it, you’ll wind up tanking your profits by driving up costs and driving down values.