User:Magistrella/Sandbox/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. Talk to Miyani, located next to the forge, to learn more about Zommoros and the operation of the forge. 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. It plays an important function in moderating the economy - when lower ranked items become too cheap, the expected returns encourages the consumption of common items to produce rarer ones.

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 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.

Recipes unique to the mystic forge are used to create specific items such as mystic or legendary weapons. These items often require mystic coins, high level items, and large resources.

You can help with Research into Forge Recipes "Mystic_Forge/Research".

Materials

Common Crafting Material Promotion

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

General formula for Common Crafting Material promotion:

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
?x tier A+1 common materials	250 x tier A materials	1 x desired tier A+1 material of the same type	5x tier A+1 dusts	A Philosopher's Stones

• 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 both Iron and Gold, with Gold being considered a higher tier metal for the promotion formula.

Fine Crafting Material Promotion

General formula for Fine Crafting Material promotion:

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
?x tier B+1 fine materials	50 x tier B materials	1 x desired tier B+1 material of the same type	5x tier B+1 dusts	B Philosopher's Stones

• 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.

Dust Promotion

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

General formula for dust promotion:

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
?x tier C+1 dusts	250 x tier C dusts	1 x desired tier C+1 dust	C Crystals	C Philosopher's Stones

• 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.

Rare Crafting Material Promotion

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
1xdesired tier D+1 material	2 x tier D materials	1 x Bottle of Elonian Wine	5x tier D dusts	1x Crystal

• These recipes produce one of the tier above them. (So Shards will produce Cores, Cores will produce Lodestones etc.)

Ascended Crafting Material

Promotion

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
1xGlob of Coagulated Mists Essence	5x Vials of Condensed Mists Essence	1 x Glob of Ectoplasm	1xMystic Coin	1x Fractal Relic
1xShard of Crystallized Mists Essence	5x Globs of Coagulated Mists Essence	1 x Glob of Ectoplasm	1xMystic Coin	1x Fractal Relic

Demotion

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
3xGlobs of Coagulated Mists Essence	1x Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence	1 x Master's Salvage Kit	1xMystic Coin	1x Fractal Relic
3xVials of Condensed Mists Essence	1x Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence	1 x Master's Salvage Kit	1xMystic Coin	1x 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.

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
1xMystic Clover	1x Obsidian Shard	1 x Glob of Ectoplasm	1xMystic Coin	1x Philosopher's Stone
10xMystic Clover	10x Obsidian Shard	10 x Glob of Ectoplasm	10xMystic Coin	10x Mystic Crystals

• 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.

Equipment

Certain equipment can only be made at the mystic forge:

• Armor box recipes
• Armor satchel recipes
• Mystic weapons
• Legendary weapons
• Ascended Back Equipment
• Certain other items
• Infusions
• Mystic Salvage Kits
• Tonics
• Upgraded Siege Weapon Blueprints

Crest and Jewel Creation

Crests and jewels can be created by combining four equal tier jewels.

• Jewels must be of the same tier to work.
• Generates a seal or gem depending on the tier of gem used in the creation.
• Higher tiered gems result in greater upgrade component levels.

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 following formula does not give you the full armor set, only the recipe to make it.

{{mystic recipe
| name = Armor Box Recipe
| generic = yes
| amt-1 = 5
| mat-1 = Bottle of Elonian Wine
| amt-2 = 20
| mat-2 = Crystal
| amt-3 = 50
| mat-3 = Mystic Coin
| amt-4 = 1
| mat-4 = Crafted Chest Armor
| genmat-4 = yes
}}

The amount of Wine, Crystals, and Coins depends on the quality of item placed in the forge.

Example:

Into Forge: - 20 Crystal Shards - 5 Bottles of Elonian Wine - 50 Mystic Coins - 1 Beserker's Exalted Coat (Exotic)

Result: Recipe: Satchel of Berserker's Exalted Armor (Exotic)

Recipe Cost: 6 Beserker's Intricate Gossamer Insignias, 18 Bolts of Gossamer, 10 Spools of Gossamer Thread, 6 Cured Hardened Leather Squares

Other Items

There are many other item types that don't follow a specific pattern. Please see Other Items for details. Legendary weapons are also crafted with the mystic forge.

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.

{{mystic recipe
| name = Food tray/feast recipe
| generic = yes
| quantity = 1
| desc1 = Trays and feasts of food.
| mat-1 = Bottle of Elonian Wine
| amt-1 = 17
| mat-2 = Crystal
| amt-2 = 20
| mat-3 = Mystic Coin
| amt-3 = 50
| mat-4 = Cooking meal
| genmat-4 = yes
| amt-4 = 1
}}

• 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.

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 at "Mystic Forge/Research".
• 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.