Guild Wars 2

Okay, today I was discussing MF runes with a guildie because it seems that whenever I had MF food and the MF gem store bonus on top of the MF buff from the Pavillion, I received better loot. (I actually farmed 12 Destroyer Lodestones in 3-4hours with 332%MF).

However, I also have a guild mate that told us that having magic find in the Crown Pavillion is completely useless as magic find only affects loot from dead bodies and nothing out of bags and chests. He says I am under a placebo effect and am only getting really lucky with the RNG.

I know for sure that MF doesn’t work with chests but I doubt the same can be said about the “Bag of Loot”. I mean why else would they give us a 100? MF buff for free?
Can someone (possibly a game dev) confirm/bust this question?

Thanks

Magic find doesn’t affect the quantity of loot you get it affects the quality of loot you find. With a higher MF you don’t get more loot you get more rare drops. It only affects drops off corpses, however in the pavilion the ‘bags of loot’ you see on the ground are the drops from the mobs corpses since they are illusions put on top of watchknights they don’t leave a cropse they leave a bag.

This is why you get more destroyer lodestones as destroyers have a chance of dropping them, with higher MF you have a higher chance of getting a lodestone to drop instead of a white/blue item.

A while ago, a dev confirmed that MF only affects drops from monsters.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Magic-Find-Chests/first#post597487

So.. basically with that post – the MF buff was completely useless and given to us for no reason but to think Anet are being nice if we didn’t know/question it? o.o

However, Magic Find gives you more bags to open.

Okay, so we were both wrong, I wasn’t getting lodestones because of MF but I was getting more chances of it because of the MF?

In that case it wasn’t a waste of money to purchase the MF set.