Guild Wars 2

I have 100% MF and i haven’t gotten any blues or nothing… but when it all wears off. i get blues up the ying-yang….

That doesn’t make sense….

RNG is RNG, etc.

Exaggeration won’t really get you anywhere. I made a set that has just under 100% Magic Find two days ago and I’ve practically been swimming in greens and blues ever since I got it. With the occasional yellow thrown in(Though I’ve gotten more than I did before).

are you over 100% though cuz im at 100% mf and i kill at least 100+ mobs and i get maybe 20/100 actually drop loot and its all trash trophy things.

maybe im farming the wrong areas?

o.O … Magic find = increase in rare drop rate? learned something ^^
cool!… if so I think perhaps there is a cap somewhere… so even if you have 100% MF, its capped at… say … 40% (just making a random number)…
so it can be that your luck was terrible during the buff, but you got lucky when it goes…
(idk… just an explanation that I could have thought of)

All that 100% MF does is effectively double the standard drop rates for items. So if the mob that you’re fighting has a .1% chance of a Yellow drop and a 5% chance of a Blue drop, then this would effectively adjust things to .2% for a Yellow and 10% for a Blue. Yes, +MF does matter to some degree. Yet if the base drop rates are low for the mobs that you’re killing, then doubling a very low chance is still a very low chance.

Cerbreus.1543:

are you over 100% though cuz im at 100% mf and i kill at least 100+ mobs and i get maybe 20/100 actually drop loot and its all trash trophy things.

maybe im farming the wrong areas?

I think I was at 89~%. Somewhere around there.

Farming in one spot is going to guarantee that you don’t get anything. ANet included an anti-farm code in the game. You can’t just farm one area.

i now how the math works for chance of drops. its still out of 100 kills i haven’t gotten one blue

Cerbreus.1543:

i now how the math works for chance of drops. its still out of 100 kills i haven’t gotten one blue

Sounds like the anti-farming script kicking in. Try killing things on another map.

Cerbreus.1543:

i now how the math works for chance of drops. its still out of 100 kills i haven’t gotten one blue

The anti-farm stuff kicks in somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 mins in the same area or around 50 mob kills. SOmething like that.

ahh ok how big is the area radius i was all over the cursed shores not in just one spot

Wiser with Age.3714:

All that 100% MF does is effectively double the standard drop rates for items. So if the mob that you’re fighting has a .1% chance of a Yellow drop and a 5% chance of a Blue drop, then this would effectively adjust things to .2% for a Yellow and 10% for a Blue. Yes, +MF does matter to some degree. Yet if the base drop rates are low for the mobs that you’re killing, then doubling a very low chance is still a very low chance.

If this is true then your chances of getting rare items is the same, you just get more drops…

Edit: I meant by percentage, you’ll get more rare drop because you get more of everything.

I think it’s really based on how many mobs of a type within a time limit.

Risen are all considered the same type, so it kicks in incredibly fast.

Wiser with Age: where did you get this info? I’d love to hear something official on this. Everything else is just a guess.

Wait, so the anti farming thing is based purely on zones and how many of the exact same mob you killed?

I thought it was basically shared with the bonus xp type thing where if you kill continue to kill some mobs in the same little area they have no bonus xp/low loot), but if you move on and kill something that hasn’t been touched you get alot of bonus xp/loot.