Guild Wars 2

How close are you to 300% MF?

I farm a lot and have bought many greens off of the TP.

I’m at 140 MF…how about you?

I’ve got 121 MF with essence of luck so far.

I plan on being near to 200 MF by the end of 2013.

I was pretty proud of myself for being at 52%…lol
I don’t ever expect to get to 300%

well so far im at 80 % , slowly gettin to 150% , main goal so far :P .

Currenlt at 50%. Planning to stop at around 200.

I’m close to 60%, and it’s getting really slow.

62%, I believe. I’m not really trying very much. Just salvage blues.

Have you all notice whether (and if so, how) the level of the item affects the essence drop rate?

Lord Kuru.3685:

Have you all notice whether (and if so, how) the level of the item affects the essence drop rate?

It doesn’t seem to matter.

At 71%. I don’t farm champs anymore, nor have i ever bought greens/blues to salvage so leveling mf is slow now

58%, I don’t buy any blues or greens, I just salvage the ones I get.

currently 75%, also planning on not caring after 200%, also just salvage stuff i find

Hmmm… today it was base 70 w/o using food, infusions or boosters. But I did my daily and got that extra clicky …so I’d need to check where it might be now
lol

Didn’t buy anything, don’t really farm, but I have stacks and stacks of low-lvl mats to craft MC for salvage. Started with blues, but got better with MC no matter the level. Still have more, matter of getting around to it.

I just hit either 52 or 53. I sold all of my items during the disequilibrium, and I don’t buy items for salvage purposes. I’m still selling most of what I pick up if it’s a decent enough profit.

I have no plans to stop until max level, if that’s even possible. It’s not like luck can be sold, or anything.

42% Just salvaging all blues and greens I get.

91% and counting

I’m at 80, and apparently this cost me 10-20 Gold (buying items for 2-3 silver on TP plus salvaging everything I get). I’m beginning to strongly suspect I’ll never get this investment back.

I am at 161% magic find. Assuming you need 4.2million luck and are only getting 3000 luck a day it will take 4yrs to max magic find.

I’m at 94% base MF at the moment.

if your trying to boost your magic find on purpose dont buy blues and greens.

Buy ecto’s and salavage them with a yellow kit. You get anywhere from 1 to 9+ T6 dusts which sell for around 11s to 15s, and they reward like 9 blue lucks and more often green, yellow, orange lucks.

So basically you end up dropping 82gold on 250 ecto’s. But end up getting like 70g+ back. The most dust ive gotten back from 250 ecto’s was 700 something. I basically profited on that one. and had 32 stacks of luck.

So if your going for high magic find do it the right way.

I am at 182% MF by the way.

72%. I stopped salvaging greens when I realized that I was probably losing a lot of money on it, so I went back to vendoring and salvaging blues for mats.

107% from luck, 115% including MF added from achievements.

Shifu you shouldn’t NPC blues/greens if you’re worried about gold. They sell for more on the TP now regardless of level/type.

Personally I love salvaging for stuff… it means I don’t need to get more bagspace for my new characters since I can just carry around 4-5 kits and break it all down for mats + MF very quickly now

Anyone who is 100% or higher currently, probably doesn’t have to worry too much of 300% taking them 4 years. Its been about a month so far.

65 percent have seen no change in the “magic” of my drops. But then my drops have always been horrible. I have killed upwards of 75 mobs without a drop at all. I have an 18 slot “junk” bag that is the only bag that fills with any regularity. My first exotic drop in the game came 4 days before I had been playing a year.

Currently: My junk bag is still the one bag that fills.
I have not had any exotic drops in over a month.
I still get blues from world bosses.

So…if I want exotics at all, then I have to buy them from people who have better drops than I do and salvaging greens and blues is just costing me money to do that at this point.

KOPPER.1458:

Anyone who is 100% or higher currently, probably doesn’t have to worry too much of 300% taking them 4 years. Its been about a month so far.

It starts requiring a lot of luck to increase it by 1% pretty quickly my friend… and it doesn’t ever get any easier to say the least.

i’m 89% currently and i haven’t decided yet how much i want.It won’t be 300% for certain that is to much for me.

I’m at 91%, and don’t buy anything to salvage, but I play a lot. A lot of that came from Scarlet Invasions.

I’m still in the 60% area…

It’s gonna be awhile.

im at 162, i heard the cap is 300?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

62%, I believe. I’m not really trying very much. Just salvage blues.

Identical to this ^ post. Considering doing both blues and greens now – since I’m not salvaging ectos, it’s starting to be noticeably slower.

195% with only 6% from acheivements. Could probably be at 300% next week if I really wanted it. Prob will take a break from it at 200%.

54% and I rarely leave Divinity’s Reach. Stop moaning, it isn’t a race.

At around 93% I came to a realization that “this” was how the drop rate should have been. It’s not like rares are spilling out of everything now but they are actually dropping “rarely” from mobs as opposed to “never”. So it seems you were always supposed to have around 100% MF before the changes.

I am at 38% magic find, and i dont really care about it because i got 1 weapon that cost 100 gold when i had 0 magic find. And i am getting exotic drops from world bosses… So i dont really trust that magic find is helping that much …. I am ignoring magic find, and its cool for me…

Namu.5712:

if your trying to boost your magic find on purpose dont buy blues and greens.

So if your going for high magic find do it the right way.

When you invest 82g and only get 70g+ back, this sounds like a net loss to me.
If you buy the right items, you make a guaranteed profit, while getting essences of luck.

I"m at 135% currently. I haven’t played in three weeks. Took me roughly six hours to get from 24% to 135%. Give me a week and I’ll have it maxed out. I ain’t got nothing else to spend my gold and shizzit on so … I didn’t know that about salvaging ectos! I’ll definitely be doing that along with all the greens and blues. I have a ton of ectos in the bank just sitting there for nothing. Going to be easier than I thought to max out the Luck

83%, and I thought I was crazy. Slow your roll guys :P

Aw Hell naw! I get three weeks off come Monday morning…. I’ll have it maxed before I know it.

Is there any data on what items yield how much luck on average?

I’m pretty sure greens give MUCH more more luck than blues, for starters. Ectos give more still, but seemingly not by a whole lot.

I’m at 81% now and according to the wiki, progressing to 100% will need just as much as i needed up until now. Technicaly, the higher you get, the more MF-boosters, food and bonuses are worth.
Considering, that you can easily get at least another 100% through various boosts, it doesn’t make much sense to mee to progress further after 200% is reached. That’s when a permanent % of MF starts to cost half a fortune.

HOWEVER, If MF boosts and achivement upgrades happen to ignore the MF cap of 300% then it’s a different story. Considering this, the maximum possible MF bonus would be 565%… O_o

Im at 129%. I only need about 1800 more luck to get to 130%. When I started out, I was putting buy orders in for blues and greens on the TP. But it barely feels worth it anymore when you need over 7000 luck for 1% MF. Like how long is it going to take for 1% MF to pay for itself when you are buying gear for 1.2-1.8 silver and your likely to need 600+.

Namu.5712:

if your trying to boost your magic find on purpose dont buy blues and greens.

Buy ecto’s and salavage them with a yellow kit. You get anywhere from 1 to 9+ T6 dusts which sell for around 11s to 15s, and they reward like 9 blue lucks and more often green, yellow, orange lucks.

So basically you end up dropping 82gold on 250 ecto’s. But end up getting like 70g+ back. The most dust ive gotten back from 250 ecto’s was 700 something. I basically profited on that one. and had 32 stacks of luck.

So if your going for high magic find do it the right way.

I am at 182% MF by the way.

Greens are the most cost effective way to max luck assuming you are bidding on ones that are around 1s. My tests with ecto you are making 2/3 of your money back from buying ecto (33s) and selling dust(14s). At 4.2million luck it will cost something like 4200 gold once you sell all of the piles of crystalline dust. If you are only bidding on greens ~1s it will cost you half as much money (2100g) to max magic find. This is assuming blue ~10luck, green ~20luck, ecto ~100luck.

You can buy rares to salvage for ecto too. Salvaging rares tends to be cheaper than buying ecto, since you are getting other mats back. Either way it is a long term goal.

Wanze.8410:

Namu.5712:

if your trying to boost your magic find on purpose dont buy blues and greens.

So if your going for high magic find do it the right way.

When you invest 82g and only get 70g+ back, this sounds like a net loss to me.
If you buy the right items, you make a guaranteed profit, while getting essences of luck.

Im talking if your specifically trying to get your luck up fast. A stack of ecto’s generally nets you 15+ stacks of luck if not more. and 2 to 3 stacks of T6 dust.

With the account bonuses and luck bonuses combined I have around 48%. Don’t I feel like a chump…