Guild Wars 2

Simply put, I was wondering is the way magic find stacks additive or multiplicative, I.E. if I have say;
. 10% on gear (actual armor stats, not sure how this would stack with runes)
. 6x Superior runes of the pirate = + 50% MF ( I would assume it stacks additively within itself)
. a magic find booster ( +50% MF)
. and an omnomberry bar (30% MF)

Would this ADD to 140%, or would it result in say anywhere between 29.25% (assuming nothing adds outside of itself) to 120% (if the runes and armor stack and everything else multiplies with them)

My maths may be a bit confusing but basically I did it in order of application, armor>runes>MF booster>food

Does it have different behavior for the way it stacks depending on what type it is? (armor/runes and buffs/boosters and such) would really some dev clarification.

PS; wasn’t sure what forum to put this under… so I put it here, feel free to move it to where it belongs.

As I’ve figured from all the countless other posts of this matter is seems it doesnt make alot of difference, ie. a guess, but it probably changes base chance. 140% extra chance where base chance is for example 0.1% would mean 0.24% chance. A really high amount of observations are needed to see the difference.

It would be interesting to get some real info though.

So far Magic Find is just plain useless no matter how it adds up.

I can run around with a sum of over 100% MF but it doesn’t seem to change drops or loot from chests, even though the fights to get to those chests is quite a bit more difficult because you have to give up a lot of vitality and toughness to get that Magic Find number.

I’m finding that the whole game is turning into a circular tail-chase of “don’t have and can’t get”, and after a couple of months that just isn’t much fun anymore.

As for getting real info? Don’t count on it. These people don’t like to answer questions on this forum. It’s strange that they can answer questions on Reddit though.

Umm, above guy, the crafting section has an entire post on MF and it’s been establish that the benefits are mostly long term.

A link would be helpful. Just saying…

Yes I used the search function.