Guild Wars 2

Hello,

So today I did some dungeoning: 2 paths in AC and 2 COF. My magic find is 23% and I only received 1 rare drop rest everything was blue and 3-4 greens. What’s going on?!?! My friend has his magic find at 9% and he received maybe 1 or 2 rare drops. That doesn’t make sense. I just got back to gw2 after 8 months and before leaving I used to get at least 1 rare every path without any magic find gear,just omnomberry bar. Also all the drops were below lvl 80 drops.

Thank you for any response.

From the wiki:

“Everytime you kill a monster you roll on a number of tables, inside these tables are different rarity categories. Magic find increases the chances you will get higher categories. For example if there is a 1 in 10 category, and you have 200% magic find you will have 3/10 chances to get that category. This improves not just the rarity of the items you get but can also improve your chances at getting trophies and rare crafting materials like lodestones.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_Find

It makes perfect sense. It’s probability, not a guarantee.

Facepunch.5710:

From the wiki:

“Everytime you kill a monster you roll on a number of tables, inside these tables are different rarity categories. Magic find increases the chances you will get higher categories. For example if there is a 1 in 10 category, and you have 200% magic find you will have 3/10 chances to get that category. This improves not just the rarity of the items you get but can also improve your chances at getting trophies and rare crafting materials like lodestones.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_Find

So does this simply mean that now I will be getting much less rare/exotic drops than I used to 8 months ago?

anj.3275:

Facepunch.5710:

From the wiki:

“Everytime you kill a monster you roll on a number of tables, inside these tables are different rarity categories. Magic find increases the chances you will get higher categories. For example if there is a 1 in 10 category, and you have 200% magic find you will have 3/10 chances to get that category. This improves not just the rarity of the items you get but can also improve your chances at getting trophies and rare crafting materials like lodestones.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_Find

So does this simply mean that now I will be getting much less rare/exotic drops than I used to 8 months ago?

Magic find itself works the exact same way as it always has, acquiring it is the only thing that’s changed.

and the drops have always been bad for some while others get good stuff all the time.
The RNG is flawed (imho) but they are unable to correct it.

Since the update I’ve gone from 0% to 168% base magic find and have noticed exactly 0 improvement in the quality of my drops or chances of T6 mats. I spend lots of time champ farming and I would have noticed an appreciable difference if there was one.

Makes you think about the MF gear crowd that used to sacrifice most of their armor stats for a MF boost that’s barely detectable, if at all.

placebo……………………….