Guild Wars 2

Many people rant about the “Magic find” stat found in the weapons that allows you to have better chances in getting better loot.

Current Problem:
Since the Items are balanced, if a piece of gear has Magic Find, that means that it’ll be lacking in some other stats, so if a player is builded to have a lot of Magic find, that means that he’ll be lacking in comparison to other players. Normally this would be great, since the players would be trading better loot for an increase in difficulty.
The problem comes into dungeons where you have to work as a team against hard odds. The players with the magic find build are lacking in other stats, and ending up performing poorly and holding the rest of the team down. These players instead of being penalized for their poor performance, they being rewarded with better loot than the rest of the party!

Solution:
It’s actually very simple. Instead of having Magic Find effect only the party member who wears it, have it so when you are in a Dungeon or a hard Instanced area, it would effect everyone in the group as a whole! The loot dropped in the dungeon should depend on the combined Magic Find by everyone in the party for everyone in the party.
When in the outside world, have the Magic find effect the enemy being attacked, instead of the player, as an invisible condition. So if you are to get loot from an enemy who is also lootable by another player with a lot of magic find, a percentage of that should benefit you as well!

You mean what Diablo 3 did?

It did just that, and it fueled elitism to the point where people required you to have 400 mf before they would party with you.

AntiGw.9367:

You mean what Diablo 3 did?

It did just that, and it fueled elitism to the point where people required you to have 400 mf before they would party with you.

By mf you mean the levels you get beyond 60 after that patch?
In GW2 this is balanced out since having more magic find means that you are forsaking other stats, plus the percentage of Magic Find given to your party could be balanced out to find the sweet spot of Power vs Loot.
Once the system is implemented, it would be all about changing a number!

Y’know, there isn’t any problem with MF. Gear is far lesser factor than skill… next you want to have party wide damagemeters, I presume?
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