Guild Wars 2

I can’t find any source saying it does or doesn’t, just a lot of debate on forums.

Does anyone know for sure if it affects salvaging?

There’s a lot of debate because, at one point, it did affect salvaging. But now it doesn’t anymore.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

There’s a lot of debate because, at one point, it did affect salvaging. But now it doesn’t anymore.

Any link to verify this? (from a dev post etc.) I ask because I found posts as recent as a few weeks ago debating it and the wiki does not state whether it does.

To the best of my knowledge it has never affected salvaging. It’s only been drops from kills (in general PvE).

magic find only affects drops from kills and certain pvp chests.

Luvok.5697:

I can’t find any source saying it does or doesn’t, just a lot of debate on forums.

Does anyone know for sure if it affects salvaging?

It does not.

• The developers have stated that it doesn’t.
• Tests run on 10s of thousands of salvages verified this, in the days when MF was bound to armor and food (before it was account bound).

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

There’s a lot of debate because, at one point, it did affect salvaging. But now it doesn’t anymore.

Sorry, no. MF never affected salvage rates. As noted above, this was demonstrated by a lot of different testers in the MF-in-armor era.

zaced.7948:

magic find only affects drops from kills and certain pvp chests.

Actually, unless they nerfed this, too, it affects lost bandit chests in SW as well.

Daddicus.6128:

zaced.7948:

magic find only affects drops from kills and certain pvp chests.

Actually, unless they nerfed this, too, it affects lost bandit chests in SW as well.

ah, i forgot this indeed since i don’t do much open world stuff.
however, i heard only the magic find from the map bonus counts towards those chests, not the overall mf. can you confirm that?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Luvok.5697:

I can’t find any source saying it does or doesn’t, just a lot of debate on forums.

Does anyone know for sure if it affects salvaging?

It does not.

• The developers have stated that it doesn’t.
• Tests run on 10s of thousands of salvages verified this, in the days when MF was bound to armor and food (before it was account bound).

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

There’s a lot of debate because, at one point, it did affect salvaging. But now it doesn’t anymore.

Sorry, no. MF never affected salvage rates. As noted above, this was demonstrated by a lot of different testers in the MF-in-armor era.

Ok, can you link me where the devs state it doesn’t affect salvaging? I will add it to the wiki so other people can see it. Everyone keeps telling me this, but no one can link the devs saying it doesn’t.

Luvok.5697:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Luvok.5697:

I can’t find any source saying it does or doesn’t, just a lot of debate on forums.

Does anyone know for sure if it affects salvaging?

It does not.

• The developers have stated that it doesn’t.
• Tests run on 10s of thousands of salvages verified this, in the days when MF was bound to armor and food (before it was account bound).

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

There’s a lot of debate because, at one point, it did affect salvaging. But now it doesn’t anymore.

Sorry, no. MF never affected salvage rates. As noted above, this was demonstrated by a lot of different testers in the MF-in-armor era.

Ok, can you link me where the devs state it doesn’t affect salvaging? I will add it to the wiki so other people can see it. Everyone keeps telling me this, but no one can link the devs saying it doesn’t.

The wiki already states that MF only affects loot from kills and has done so for three years.

With a couple exceptions, it does not affect containers (including champion loot bags), chests, or any other source of loot.^{1 2} The exceptions are:

• Containers received from structured PvP reward tracks.
• Bandit chests in The Silverwastes
• Divine Lucky Envelopes during Lunar New Year

(The three exceptions were all introduced relatively recently and explained in patch notes as well as in-game.)

The footnotes link back to Cartwright’s original post on the topic, 3 years ago:

It does not work on the Mystic Forge, magic find only effects the loot generated from killing monsters.

In addition, plenty of people did controlled experiments to test it, again, back when this was easy to do (because MF was bound to armor, not to the account).

The now-defunct blog from Inquisitive Myths did research on mining and bags and has links to a reddit post about salvaging:

• mining
• opening bags
• salvaging — this guy used 108% MF, which was about as high as folks could easily manage at the time, using armor.