Guild Wars 2

If I craft a piece of Explorer gear today will I get to transform it into a Berserker item once these magic find changes take effect, whenever that may be? That’s how I understand the announcement… just want to make sure.

If this works: Vicious Claws (used to create Explorer gear) are cheap on the TP compared to Powerful Blood (Berserker gear) so it may be worth it to do this.

Source: The following paragraph from today’s “Economy Report” announcement.

“Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.

For example, if you have an Explorer’s Pearl Staff, you can now double-click it to change it to any other crafting stat."

Notice that he says “any other crafting stat” so Explorers —> Zerkers should be possible.

I have same question. Knight and Berseker armor is so expensive that this would be wise to do now. I think?

Yes

If you want berserker, you might be able to get a cheaper MF set off the TP than crafting Explorer’s – look for the lvl 80 named exotic armor sets.

If you want knights, craft or buy explorer gear to save some $$ on armored scales as there are no named knight’s sets as drops so that probably will not be an option to select