Guild Wars 2

I’m halfway through crafting a celestial set due to the limitations of ‘time-gating’ on my charged quartz crystals. Only to find out that the MF will be completely removed from any of the ones I create in the future.

They’ve said that any items with MF will become account bound and you’ll be able to click & choose a new stat.

Why not apply that principle to future items too? Instead of pre-selecting a stat for these items and replacing them in the game, why not allow them to retain a unique position – a stat-self-customizing item. A “Stat-Find” item if you will.

This way, future items that formerly had magic find be clicked and customized.

I think it’s kind of unfair that someone who completed their Celestial set (for example) last week, will be able to choose 5 pieces of extra ‘stat’ to replace their MF.
But due to time gating I’ll only be able to add 2 pieces of extra ‘stat’ on the exact same cost item. Will I be able to defeat this person in a duel if they have 5*items with more power or something?

Celestial is having it’s MF stat replaced with another non-combat stat, you aren’t able to pick which stat it is.

Other MF specific items are going to be account bound and then allow people to have a choice between standard stat combos (berserk,knight,etc- no specialised combos such as celestial).

What you’re saying is almost entirely incorrect. There will be no grandfathered stat advantage, time gating will not be skipable, 1v1s will not be affected at all by any of the changes.

and where did you get the idea that Celestial would be getting any extra stat? It will be getting less.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Magic-Find-merged-1/2713794

Celestial will stay as it is minus the MF bonus on it.

Khisanth.2948:

and where did you get the idea that Celestial would be getting any extra stat? It will be getting less.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Magic-Find-merged-1/2713794

Celestial will stay as it is minus the MF bonus on it.

I interpreted that as newly crafted Celestial.

Items already in existence will have their ‘choose-a-stat’ mechanic