The forge actually is the best and cheapest way to increase your influence in the raids, allowing you to beat your opponents and to earn more buds.
There are two rules that will still work in the same way:
There are no limits in the number of times you can forge an avatar.
Only avatars with 5 levels of difference can be forged, this means you cant forge an avatar level 90 with an avatar level 1. But you can forge a level 90 with a level 85 or 95.
But actually, we use a system of priority to decide the avatar output that will decide which avatar is used as a material of forging (absorbed by the other one). This priority system is based on the rarity of the avatars and is very well explained by 
The master of the raids
So we will update the forge with an easier system soon, the avatar at the left will be always the output avatar and the avatar at the right will be always the material for the forge. We will let you know in our discord when the update is live
We listened to our players regarding the difficulty of using common avatars in forging, so we will introduce a FREE version of the forge that will introduce a burning mechanism that will let you power up your avatars using an avatar you don't use without paying anything. And works differently from the traditional forge.
You will be able to forge your avatars to fuse part of their POWER and XP into another avatar, there's no limit of level between the avatars to do this, and the highest the level of your avatar the most % of STATS you will get using the burning forge.
Is a system really similar to the referral rewards we have if your set avatar is level 1 you will get only 5% of the XP and POWER of the burned avatar and if you are level 100 you will get 35% of the XP and power of the burned avatar.
This is the chart for the referral rewards, but the rates are actually the same.
We are empowering our XP system to include many perks within all the Hashkings ecosystem, remember more players smoking joints will be more BUDS being burned and more rewards in our upcoming staking feature.
This also means we will be introducing a bigger collection of joints, including joint boxes with cheaper rates of XP per dollar, so big players can act as dealers allowing small players to access these joints.
For example, using the typical sequence of joints from level 1 to level 100 would need way more joints and way more time than just looking for a trusted dealer (you can use NFTmart too) to find higher joints like the galactic joint which offers more XP per each dollar.
And of course on HIVE ;)
