Guild Wars 2

Did any one reach 300% in magic find ( achievements panel ) ?
How much did it cost ? Does rarity affect it ? what about item level ?

I’m sure lots of people have by this time . I’m not one of them however .

I think I’ve seen 3 or 4 people posting up pics of their MF being over 300%.

What’s the theoretical max of MF? Like 800%

I do a lot of salvaging and I’m at 124%, but I don’t play as much as many other do. I dunno… I think it would take me another 6 months maybe to get to 300%. I have seen threads where people have stated they’re at or over the 300%. I wonder how much it actually affects drops?

People max it using ectos and selling back the dust to minimize losses though you will still lose something like 30% cost per ecto. Magic find makes your drops noticeably better but won’t really affect your chances of getting a precursor or anything super valuable from it, that’s just dumb luck as most drop from chests or mystic forge. You will see more yellows in your travels though.

I have a friend who sold a Dusk he got out of the Mystic Forge to max out magic find. Ignoring the obvious losses, you can no longer consume all the luck that builds up in your inventory once you hit 300%.

Doesn’t artificer use essences of luck to craft?

thefantasticg.3984:

Doesn’t artificer use essences of luck to craft?

It only upgrade weaker essences into stronger ones. There is no gain except reduced chances of repetitive strain injury due to all that clicking.

Shockwave.1230:

What’s the theoretical max of MF? Like 800%

Wiki has the tally. 565% is the current maximum. I guess if they bring back something like the southsun thing or pavilion buff it could go higher.

I don’t want to spend much time to max it , how much gold will it cost to do it ?
Why do they salvage ectos ( will get much by selling them ) ? Can’t they just salvage blue items as the quality doesn’t matter ?
Does the salvage tool type affect the chances of getting the essences ?

I don’t want to spend much time to max it , how much gold will it cost to do it ?

A few thousand.

Why do they salvage ectos ( will get much by selling them ) ?

Because you can turn around and sell the dust to make some money back.

Can’t they just salvage blue items as the quality doesn’t matter ?

Quality does matter. I’ve salvaged may through from 20% to 16X% and I get more of the better essences salvaging ectos than ever with the blues… and using master kits/mystic/black lion kits than the salvag-o-matic/basic kits.

Does the salvage tool type affect the chances of getting the essences ?

From my experience, yes.

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

I don’t want to spend much time to max it , how much gold will it cost to do it ?
Why do they salvage ectos ( will get much by selling them ) ? Can’t they just salvage blue items as the quality doesn’t matter ?
Does the salvage tool type affect the chances of getting the essences ?

The salvage tool type does not affect the chances of getting the essence or the rarity of essence you get. I think I read this somewhere on wiki or forums.

I think Ectos are better for three reason:

• You can buy 10-20k of it and salvage it to get the essence in one run. The blues and greens take up lot of bag space.
• Ectos give from 3-8 Essence (Blue one) where as equips gives a max of 2-3 if I am right
• Ectos also give dust

Overall salvaging ecto is the fastest way, but salvaging greens is the cheapest way. Ecto avg 100luck per salvage and greens 20luck. Using ecto to max luck will cost you twice as much as using greens assuming you are buying greens for around 1s. The cost I calculated for maxing luck is around ~4000g with ecto(takes into account you sells the dust back) and ~2000g with greens. The main issue with buying greens if you will have pages of greens to salvage. Btw 226% magic find is the half way point needed to max magic find in terms of luck:
183% is 1/4 of max luck,
144% is 1/10 of max luck,
109% is 1/25 of max luck
72% is 1/100 of max luck