Guild Wars 2

Basically can I farm chest and bags with Zerk gear, then throw on MF and open the bags and chests for sick loot(sarcasm) or is it decided beforehand?

Another guild member tested opening bags with 2 stacks (of 250 each) MF gear vs normal gear. And she said it made no difference.

From what I have seen chests are affected by MF but this is determined at the moment of the kill not when you open this. This is only an observation that I seem to get more rares (2/3) from the boss event chests regularly when wearing MF gear and get mostly greens when wearing non MF gear.

u wot m8?

I mean, I don’t understand what you’re asking.

Supposedly determined the moment you kill the enemy.

This theory does not work according to the Devs. (He wants to kill things using zerker gear and open the bags later with MF gear on in hopes of getting better loot)

the magic find set helps you to find more bags, but when you open them is already late. magic find won’t work on opening bags, chest and mystic forge

Do I have to wear MF while farming bags and chest for the rarer loot, or can I throw it on after getting a bunch then still have the increased rare drop loot %?

Okay gotcha darn, inefficient farming…..

Also buying mass bags off TP, throwing on 300% MF, then hopefully make a profit.

Vol.5241:

u wot m8?

I mean, I don’t understand what you’re asking.

Seams pretty clear to me, he is asking if he can wear his battle gear in boss fight then switch to his MF gear before opening chest and having his newly donned MF gear affect his rewards, but, to answer the OPs question whether it does or not MF DOESN’T affect chests although it MIGHT work on the bags.