User:Noxx/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 at "Mystic_Forge/Research".

Materials

Crafting material promotion

Common, fine and rare crafting materials can be promoted to higher tier materials using recipes that follow these formulas:

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
? tier X common materials	250 tier X-1 materials of the same type	1 desired tier X material	5 tier X dusts	X-1 Philosopher's Stones
e.g. ? Silk Scraps (tier 5)	250 Linen Scraps	1 Silk Scrap	5 Piles of Incandescent Dust	4 Philosopher's Stones
? tier X fine materials	50 tier X-1 materials of the same type	1 desired tier X material	5 tier X dusts	X-1 Philosopher's Stones
e.g. ? Venom Sacs (tier 3)	50 Small Venom Sacs	1 Venom Sac	5 Piles of Radiant Dust	2 Philosopher's Stones
? tier X dusts	250 tier X-1 dusts	1 tier X dust	X-1 Crystals	X-1 Philosopher's Stones
e.g. ? Piles of Luminous Dust (tier 4)	250 Piles of Radiant Dust	1 Pile of Luminous Dust	3 Crystals	3 Philosopher's Stones
1 tier X rare material	2 tier X-1 materials of the same type	1 Bottle of Elonian Wine	1 Crystal	1 tier X+1 dust
e.g. 1 Charged Lodestone (tier 5)	2 Charged Cores	1 Bottle of Elonian Wine	1 Crystal	1 Pile of Crystalline Dust
6-X tier X rare materials	12-2X tier X-1 materials of the same type	1 Mystic Binding Agent	1 Crystal	1 tier X+1 dust
e.g. 4 Molten Fragments (tier 2)	8 Molten Slivers	1 Mystic Binding Agent	1 Crystal	1 Pile of Radiant Dust

• Upgrading common or fine materials from tier 5 to tier 6 has a lower yield than all other tiers.
• 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.

Ascended materials

Ascended materials from Fractals of the Mists can be both upgraded and degraded.

Materials created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
3 Vials of Condensed Mists Essence	1 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence	1 Mystic Coin	1 Master's Salvage Kit (25 uses)	1 Fractal Relic
3 Globs of Coagulated Mists Essence	1 Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence	1 Mystic Coin	1 Master's Salvage Kit (25 uses)	1 Fractal Relic
1 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence	5 Vials of Condensed Mists Essence	1 Mystic Coin	1 Glob of Ectoplasm	1 Fractal Relic
1 Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence	5 Globs of Coagulated Mists Essence	1 Mystic Coin	1 Glob of Ectoplasm	1 Fractal Relic

Mystic Clovers

Mystic Clovers are used in the creation of the Gift of Fortune, which is required to create all legendary weapons.

Material created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
1 Mystic Clover (~33% chance)	1 Obsidian Shard	1 Mystic Coin	1 Glob of Ectoplasm	6 Philosopher's Stones
10 Mystic Clovers (~33% chance)	10 Obsidian Shards	10 Mystic Coins	10 Globs of Ectoplasm	10 Crystals

Both recipes pull from the same pool of random results, but the bulk recipe costs and yields ten times more. Using the recipe results in one of the following drops (multiply by 10 for the 10-Clover recipe):

Clover

• 1 Mystic Clover

Materials

• 1-5 random tier 6 refined materials: Orichalcum Ingot, Ancient Wood Plank, Bolt of Gossamer, Cured Hardened Leather Square
• 2-4 random tier 6 fine materials: Ancient Bone, Vicious Claw, Pile of Crystalline Dust, Vicious Fang, Armored Scale, Elaborate Totem, Powerful Venom Sac, Vial of Powerful Blood
• 1 random tier 5 rare material: Pile of Putrid Essence, Onyx Lodestone, Molten Lodestone, Glacial Lodestone, Destroyer Lodestone, Crystal Lodestone, Corrupted Lodestone, Charged Lodestone
• 2 Globs of Ectoplasm

Non-material items

• 5 Mystic Coins
• 2 Mystic Crystals
• 2 Obsidian Shards
• 1 Hidden Treasure

Equipment and upgrade components

The Mystic Forge can be used to create many specific exotic and legendary weapons, trinkets and upgrade components. See User:Noxx/Mystic Forge/Equipment for a list of known equipment recipes.

Other items

In addition to materials and equipment, the Mystic Forge can be used to create a variety of other items, including upgraded siege weapon blueprints, miniatures, tonics and gifts. See User:Noxx/Mystic Forge/Other Items for the remaining recipes.

Item created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
Mystic Salvage Kit	3 Mystic Forge Stones	1 Fine Salvage Kit (25 uses)	1 Journeyman's Salvage Kit (25 uses)	1 Master's Salvage Kit (25 uses)
Booster Multipack	1 Experience Booster	1 Karma Booster	1 Magic Find Booster	1 Leather Bag

Recipes

These recipes don't give you the respective items, instead they give a Recipe item to learn in the appropriate crafting discipline.

Recipe created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
Armor box / satchel	1 crafted chest armor	x Bottles of Elonian Wine	x Crystals	x Mystic Coins
Food tray / feast	1 cooking meal (Initiate or higher)	x Bottles of Elonian Wine	x Crystals	x Mystic Coins

• The amount of ingredients required depends on the tier of the item.
• Armor boxes/satchels give you the entire set of armor. They cost the same materials to create as crafting the individual pieces would.
• Food trays/feasts give you an item to place in the world and whoever interacts with it gets the food buff. They cost 10 pieces of the food to create.

Upgraded siege weapon blueprints

Siege weapons used in World vs World can be upgraded into more powerful variants at the cost of requiring more supply to build.

Blueprint created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
Omega Siege Golem Blueprints	5 Alpha Siege Golem Blueprints	3 Siege Master's Guides	10 Mithril Ores	10 Elder Wood Logs
Superior Arrow Cart Blueprints	2 Arrow Cart Blueprints	1 Siege Master's Guide	5 Mithril Ores	5 Elder Wood Logs
Superior Ballista Blueprints	2 Ballista Blueprints	1 Siege Master's Guide	5 Mithril Ores	5 Elder Wood Logs
Superior Catapult Blueprints	2 Catapult Blueprints	1 Siege Master's Guide	5 Mithril Ores	5 Elder Wood Logs
Superior Flame Ram Blueprints	2 Flame Ram Blueprints	1 Siege Master's Guide	5 Mithril Ores	5 Elder Wood Logs
Superior Trebuchet Blueprints	2 Trebuchet Blueprints	1 Siege Master's Guide	10 Mithril Ores	10 Elder Wood Logs

Structured PvP items

PvP rewards can be salvaged with a PvP Salvage Kit into PvP crafting materials (Arcane Powder, arcane tokens, rank tokens or equipment tokens), which can then be used in the following Mystic Forge recipes:

Recipe created	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
PvP equipment	10 Arcane Powders	1 arcane token	1 rank token	1 equipment token
11 Arcane Orbs	1 PvP Arcane Converter	25 Arcane Powders	1 Arcane Orb	25 Arcane Slivers
11 Arcane Crystals	1 PvP Arcane Converter	25 Arcane Powders	1 Arcane Crystal	25 Arcane Orbs
11 Arcane Slivers	1 PvP Arcane Converter	25 Arcane Powders	1 Arcane Sliver	25 Arcane Crystals
Unidentified Dye (account bound)	1 Consumable Token	1 Arcane Orb	10 Arcane Powders	1 Arcane Sliver
Finisher	1 Consumable Token	1 Arcane Orb	10 Arcane Powders	1 rank token
Glory Booster	1 Consumable Token	1 Arcane Orb	10 Arcane Powders	1 Arcane Crystal

• The tiers of used rank token and arcane token determine the rarity of the resulting item, while the equipment token determines its type.

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 item, by combining four dyes, runes, sigils, mini-pets, or four pieces of equipment of equal rarity.
• The forge will accept more than one of the same item if you split the stack.