Mystic Forge

The Mystic Forge, in Lion's Arch

Mystic Forge UI

The Mystic Forge is a crafting station located in the heart of the Lion's Arch Mystic Plaza near the Trader's Forum waypoint, within the Heart of the Mists, and within each Borderlands' garrison and Stonemist Castle in World versus World. It can also be accessed with Mystic Forge Conduits and Mystic Forge Nodes from anywhere in the world. This strange object holds the imprisoned djinn Zommoros, who hails from distant Elona. If you offer him the proper gifts, he will create new items for you. Miyani provides information to learn more about Zommoros and the operation of the forge. She can be found next to the forge in Lion's Arch. She sells mystic recipes for coin and mystic items for skill points that are used in crafting items specific to the forge.

The mystic forge has various uses, ranging from transmuting weapons to higher level versions to the crafting of legendary weapons. The forge also plays a role in infused equipment. It plays an important function in economy by providing a goldsink and removing excess quantities of low level items. The Mystic Forge Node was an item temporarily introduced to remove an influx of common crafting materials present in the Trading Post. The forge is the most common method to obtain precursor weapons, as they can only be obtained otherwise as a very rare drop from enemies or chests. This provides a demand for weapons used in the generic recipe to obtain precursor weapons, along with other exotic weapons. In turn, these weapons can be obtained from drops or by crafting. For the crafted weapons, they all require Orichalcum Ores and Ancient Wood Logs as well as tier 6 crafting materials. Like weapons, low level crafting materials can be refined into high level materials.

Crafting

The mystic forge is a special crafting station that can be used by all characters. Recipes in the mystic forge always require four ingredients. Recipes can be discovered in a similar fashion to crafting professions, but there is no tab to record them. Generic recipes will show all other equipment of the same rarity as valid in terms of the discovery.

Generic recipes typically require four pieces of equipment of the same rarity and will create a random piece of equipment of that rarity whose level is 5-12 levels higher than the average level of the inputs, with a chance that the item will be promoted in rarity.. If four pieces of equipment of the same type and rarity are used, the equipment received will be of the same type in addition to normal function. This serves as a way to obtain high level versions of a certain piece of equipment. The forge can also be used to transmute crafting materials, dyes, and blueprints among other items.

The mystic forge is a source for many of the unique and high level weapons in the game, such as mystic and legendary weapons. These items often require mystic coins, high level items, and large resources.

Research on Mystic Forge recipes can be found here.

Materials

Common crafting material promotion

Common crafting materials can be promoted to higher tier materials using a formula similar to the following example:

Cotton Scrap Promotion

Mystic Forge ingredients

250 Wool Scrap
1 Cotton Scrap
5 Pile of Radiant Dust
5 Philosopher's Stone

General Formula for promotion:

(250 x tier A material) + (1 x tier A+1 material) + (5 x tier A+1 Dust) + (A x Philosopher's Stone(s)) = A random amount of Tier A+1 materials

• The number of materials you get out varies with the tier of materials in the process, but the number of materials put in (250) remains constant.
• Upgrading from tier 5 to tier 6 has a lower yield than all other tiers.
• Upgraded common materials can only be advanced one crafting tier at a time. Copper can only become Iron, Wool can only become Cotton, etc.
• The quality of "Pile of X Dust" required for the recipe is equal to the material being produced.
• The number of Philosopher's Stones needed is equal to the tier of the material being produced minus 1. Creating a tier 4 material (Linen, Rugged Leather, etc.) would require 3 stones.

Exceptions:

• Silver cannot be created from Copper.
• Gold cannot be created from Iron.
• Platinum can be created from either Iron or Gold, with Gold being considered a higher tier metal for the promotion formula.

Fine Crafting Material Promotion

Fine crafting materials can be promoted to higher tier fine materials using a formula similar to the following example:

Claw Promotion

Mystic Forge ingredients

50 Small Claw
1 Claw
5 Pile of Radiant Dust
5 Philosopher's Stone

• Upgraded fine materials can only be advanced one tier at a time.
• Upgrading from tier 5 to tier 6 has a lower yield than all other tiers (5 - 12 materials gained).
• The quality of "Pile of X Dust" required for the recipe is equal to the fine material being produced.
• The amount of Philosopher's Stones needed is equal to the tier of the material being produced minus 1. Creating a tier 4 fine material (Thick Blood, Sharp Fang, etc.) would require 3 stones.

General Formula for promotion:

(50 x tier B fine material) + (1 x tier B+1 fine material) + (5 x tier B+1 Dust) + (5 x Philosopher's Stone(s)) = A random amount of Tier B+1 materials

Dust Promotion

Piles of dust can be promoted to higher tier dust using a formula similar to the following example:

Dust Promotion

Mystic Forge ingredients

250 Pile of Incandescent Dust
1 Pile of Crystalline Dust
5 Crystal
5 Philosopher's Stone

General Formula for promotion:

(250 x tier C dust) + (1 x tier C+1 dust) + ( C x Crystal(s)) + (C x Philosopher's Stone(s)) = A random amount of Tier C+1 dust

• Dust can only be upgraded one tier at a time.
• Upgrading from tier 5 to tier 6 yields a lower result than other tiers.
• Tier 5 > 6 Stats after upgrading 100 times: Average 21, Min 10, Max 39 (actual max of 40).

Rare Crafting Material Promotion

Lodestone Promotion

Mystic Forge ingredients

2 Charged Core
1 Bottle of Elonian Wine
1 Crystal
1 Pile of Crystalline Dust

Core Promotion

Mystic Forge ingredients

2 Crystal Shard
1 Bottle of Elonian Wine
1 Crystal
1 Pile of Incandescent Dust

Batch promotion recipes using Mystic Binding Agents also exist.

• These recipes produce one of the tier above them. (So the charged core recipe will result in 1 lodestone)
• Lower tier rare crafting materials can also be upgraded using these formulas, with the appropriate tier of dust.
• Due to the cost of acquiring Bottles of Elonian Wine, these recipes may not be worth pursuing.

Ascended Crafting Material

Upgrading

Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence

Mystic Forge ingredients

5 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence
1 Mystic Coin
1 Glob of Ectoplasm
1 Fractal Relic

Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence

Mystic Forge ingredients

5 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence
1 Mystic Coin
1 Glob of Ectoplasm
1 Fractal Relic

Degrading

3 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence
1 Mystic Coin
1 Master's Salvage Kit
1 Fractal Relic

3 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence
1 Mystic Coin
1 Master's Salvage Kit
1 Fractal Relic

• Master's Salvage Kit must have all 25 uses left.

Mystic Clovers

Mystic Clovers are used in the creation of the Gift of Fortune, which is required to create all legendary weapons. The following formula is used to randomly acquire the Clovers, ~1/3 of the time.

1 Clover recipe

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Mystic Coin
1 Obsidian Shard
6 Philosopher's Stone
1 Glob of Ectoplasm

10 Clover recipe

Mystic Forge ingredients

10 Mystic Coin
10 Obsidian Shard
10 Crystal
10 Glob of Ectoplasm

• The Gift of Fortune requires 77 Mystic Clovers.
• Both recipes pull from the same pool of random results, but the 10-Clover recipe costs and yields ten times more.

Possible drops

Using the recipe results in one of the following drops (multiply by 10 for the 10-clover recipe):

Clover

• 1 Mystic Clover

Common & Fine materials

• 1-5 random refined tier 6 crafting material: Orichalcum Ingot, Ancient Wood Plank, Bolt of Gossamer, Cured Hardened Leather Square
• 2-4 tier 6 fine crafting material

Rare materials

• 2 Crystal
• 2 Obsidian Shard
• 1 Pile of Putrid Essence
• 1 Lodestone

Exotic materials

• 2 Glob of Ectoplasm

Non-material items

• 5 Mystic Coins
• 1 Hidden Treasure

Equipment

Certain equipment can only be made at the mystic forge:

• Armor box recipes
• Armor satchel recipes
• Mystic weapons
• Legendary weapons
• Ascended back items
• Certain other items
• Infusions

Armor Box / Satchel Recipes

Recipes for full armor sets can be created from a crafted chest piece. They will allow you to craft armor boxes, which contain every piece of an armor set. The amount of Wine, Crystals, and Coins depends on the quality of item placed in the forge. For example, a level 65 rare armor satchel uses 3 Wine, 35 coins, and 15 crystals.

Recipe

The following formula generates the recipe; it does not produce any armor. (The armor must be crafted at a crafting station.)

Armor Box Recipe

Mystic Forge ingredients

5 Bottle of Elonian Wine
20 Crystal
50 Mystic Coin
1 Crafted Chest Armor

Detailed example

To create Recipe: Satchel of Berserker's Exalted Armor (Exotic), combine the following in the forge:

• 20 Crystal Shards
• 5 Bottles of Elonian Wine
• 50 Mystic Coins
• 1 Beserker's Exalted Coat (Exotic)
  • Must be crafted by a Tailor.
  • Requires 10x Spool of Gossamer Thread + 6x Cured Hardened Leather Square + 18x Bolt of Gossamer + 6x Berserker's Intricate Gossamer Insignia

Mystic Weapons

Mystic weapons can be created in the Mystic Forge and use a skin similar to the Inquest weapons, with stats identical to other crafted level 80 exotics of any prefix. All formulae are similar to the following, using their respective weapon components:

Exception: The Mystic Sword (1 hand) costs 50 Mystic Coins, other materials are the same as below.

Mystic Pistol

Mystic Forge ingredients

30 Mystic Coin
1 Eldritch Scroll
5 Orichalcum Pistol Barrel
5 Ancient Pistol Frame

Infusions

Infusions can be created in the Mystic Forge to have +5 Agony resistance in addition to +5 to some other attribute. These infusions require:

•  250 Passion Fruit (offensive) or Karka Shell (defensive)
•  20 Mystic Coin
•  50 Philosopher's Stone
•  100 of a specific tier 6 crafting material as follows:

Name	Attribute	Type	Crafting components
Healing Infusion	Healing Power	Defensive	Elaborate Totem
Malign Infusion	Condition Damage	Offensive	Powerful Venom Sac
Mighty Infusion	Power	Offensive	Vial of Powerful Blood
Precise Infusion	Precision	Offensive	Vicious Claw
Resilient Infusion	Toughness	Defensive	Armored Scale
Vital Infusion	Vitality	Defensive	Ancient Bone

Ascended Backpieces

Ascended back slot items can be created using the mystic forge. There are two different methods of making backpieces using the mystic forge. One involves making a Prototype Fractal Capacitor and the other requires fine tier 6 crafting materials. The stats on the Prototype Fractal Capacitor depends on the type you choose from the vendor.

With offensive infusion slot:

Prototype Fractal Capacitor (Ascended)

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Prototype Fractal Capacitor
1 Gift of Ascension
40 Crystal
1 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence

With defensive infusion slot:

Prototype Fractal Capacitor (Ascended)

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Prototype Fractal Capacitor
1 Gift of Ascension
240 Philosopher's Stone
1 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence

Upgrading to beta Fractal Capacitor

Beta Fractal Capacitor (Infused)

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Prototype Fractal Capacitor (Ascended)
250 Glob of Ectoplasm
1 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence
1 Gift of Ascension

The other method of making backpieces involves:

• 1 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence
• 50 Glob of Ectoplasm
• 240 Philosopher's Stones or 40 Crystals (Offensive vs. Defensive Infusion)
• 250 fine tier 6 crafting materials depending on the desired stats.

Infused Rings

Ascended rings can become infused at the Mystic Forge.

Ascended ring (Infused)

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Ascended ring
1 Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence
3 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence
5 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence

Pendants

Emerald Pendant

Mystic Forge ingredients

250 Pile of Crystalline Dust
250 Gold Ingot
250 Emerald Orb
50 Mystic Coin

Ruby Pendant

Mystic Forge ingredients

250 Pile of Crystalline Dust
250 Gold Ingot
250 Ruby Orb
50 Mystic Coin

Sapphire Pendant

Mystic Forge ingredients

250 Pile of Crystalline Dust
250 Gold Ingot
250 Sapphire Orb
50 Mystic Coin

Triforge Pendant

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Emerald Pendant
1 Ruby Pendant
1 Sapphire Pendant
50 Crystal

You can upgrade the Triforge Pendant to an ascended version with the following recipe.

Triforge Pendant (ascended)

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Triforge Pendant
1 Glob of Ectoplasm
1 Mystic Coin
1 Fractal Relic

Other Items

Primary article: Legendary weapon

Legendary weapons are also crafted with the mystic forge.

Primary article: Mystic Forge/Other Items

There are a variety of other items that do not follow any of the other patterns on this page.

Consumables

Mystic Chests

Primary article: Mystic Chest

This recipe was in effect for a short period of time and is no longer valid.

Food trays and food feasts

You can also create recipes for trays and feasts of food.

Food tray/feast recipe

Unique Description
Trays and feasts of food.

Mystic Forge ingredients

17 Bottle of Elonian Wine
20 Crystal
50 Mystic Coin
1 Cooking meal

• The amount of materials needed to create the tray recipes depends on the tier of the food item.
• Food items must be Initiate or greater to be considered an ingredient in the Mystic Forge.
• General recipe is inconsistent with lower levels.

Mystic Salvage Kits

Mystic Salvage Kits are identical to Master's Salvage Kits, but have 250 uses.

Mystic Salvage Kit

Mystic Forge ingredients

3 Mystic Forge Stone
1 Fine Salvage Kit
1 Journeyman's Salvage Kit
1 Master's Salvage Kit

• This recipe requires unused kits, i.e. with 25-uses remaining; you cannot combine partially-used kits.

Upgraded Siege Weapon Blueprints

Upgraded Siege Weapon Blueprints can be created from standard Siege Weapon Blueprints (obtained at Siege Merchants or Jumping Puzzles within WvW) using the Mystic Forge.

The recipe for all upgraded blueprints except the Trebuchet and Alpha Siege Golem are as follows:

Upgraded Blueprints

Mystic Forge ingredients

5 Mithril Ore
5 Elder Wood Log
2 Siege Blueprint
1 Siege Masters Guide

The Trebuchet and Alpha Siege Golem require:

Upgraded Trebuchet Blueprints

Mystic Forge ingredients

10 Mithril Ore
10 Elder Wood Log
2 Trebuchet Blueprints
1 Siege Masters Guide

Omega Siege Golem Blueprints

Mystic Forge ingredients

10 Mithril Ore
10 Elder Wood Log
5 Alpha Siege Golem Blueprints
3 Siege Masters Guide

Booster Multipack

Booster Multipack

Mystic Forge ingredients

1 Experience Booster
1 Karma Booster
1 Magic Find Booster
1 Leather Bag

Tonics

Tonics produce a temporary cosmetic transformation. Specific tonics are produced in the Mystic Forge by combining two Mystery Tonics from a Black Lion Chest along with two crafting material ingredients. The Mystery Tonic itself produces a random transformation. Known recipes are listed under the Mystery Tonic pages.

PvP items

When PvP rewards are salvaged using a PvP Salvage Kit, they are turned into PvP crafting materials, such as arcane powders, arcane crystals and tokens. The tokens all have different ranks (i.e. rabbit, deer, tournament, etc.) and generally the higher the token's rank, the more imposing the item forged.

To create an item you need an item token (available from a glory vendor), a rank token (Rabbit, Deer, etc.), an arcane token (crystal, orb, sliver, etc.) and some arcane powders. The combination of rank token and arcane token determines the rarity of the item.

Notes

• Research into valid recipes and their results can be found here.
• There is roughly a 20% chance to create a random higher rarity dye, rune or mini-pet by respectively combining four dyes, runes, sigils, or mini-pets.
• The forge will accept more than one of the same item if you split the stack.

Bug:

On very rare occasions, players have reported receiving nothing from the mystic forge.