Guild Wars 2

So once a player has maxed Magic Find, Essence of Luck becomes useless. Has Anet indicated a possible secondary use for them in the future?

Not that I know of, no. And given that the vast majority of the player base probably are nowhere near maxing MF, my guess is that ANet has no plans to introduce alternate uses for Luck Essences in the near future.

I’ll keep using it for now; I’m on 160% base MF and I save stacks of exotic essences in the bank because once you get over say 140%, watching that bar go up ever slower is really depressing. I like to get more than a few % MF at a time, even though I’m not totally convinced it has anything to do with my luck with drops. The completionist in me wants to get to max.

Speaking as someone who used to have 0 MF (and who now has 147), I CAN say there has been a noticeable increase in the amount of Rares I’ve been getting as drops. In the early days I could go for a week without getting any Rares, but now I will usually get one or two from drops for 2 – 3 hours of play. Exotics are still few and far between, but I feel safe in saying it has had an impact.

They need a Mystic Forge recipe for a consumable that boosts your magic find by 50% for like 30 minutes or an hour or something. Or gift of luck or something.

Working on MF felt like working on LDoA in GW1, it’s a long haul. I guess I’ll bank the essences and hope for a use.

I just reached 300% mf last week and now stocking up on essences. Would be nice if we could NPC them or have a vendor that trades them in for items.

Essence of Luck I think would be a good material for Pre-cursor crafting when/if it comes.