Guild Wars 2

Mays.5839:

Magic find helps if you’re specifically going to try and get one in a drop. It’s just luck.

I’m sorry but I don’t condone this very misleading fallacy, and I’ll give you proof of why it doesn’t help. I’ve run with 0% MF for the last two weeks and have had maybe 2x more rare drops than I ever had on a good day with my old MF gear. My experiences – partying sometimes helps, but that’s inconclusive as other times it just doesn’t work as expected (more the quantity, not the quality).

As for the OP, I’ve passed around 1300 hours and have had only 1 exotic drop (a named exotic) during an add-spawn at a Claw of Jormag event not long ago. I wasn’t wearing MF for that either. I think it’s ridiculous that something just made for stalling tactics instead of focusing fire on the boss actually gives MUCH better loot than the boss’s end chest. It’s little wonder there’s not a lot of people doing these anymore.

Well i’ve played for 1200+ hours and never had an exotic drop (I have got one or two from a chest though but never the dragon chest which I regularly do). I just sigh and move on lol

I’ve been playing for a little over 1000 hours, did all dungeons, currently playing a lot of fractals etc

I’ve had exactly 7 exotic drops so far, I count them since release, 5 of them were from random NORMAL mobs, the latest one was from a risen chicken in Malchor’s Leap, and only 2 from dungeon/fractal mobs, no exotics ever from chests, dragons, bosses, champions etc

There is a reason people just grind the events with lots of normal mob spawns instead of going for the “hardest” parts

Raine.1394:

I think I got my first exotic drop at around 400 hours. I’ve been doing MF pent/shelt/plinx non-stop for a week without seeing an exotic drop. I did have 2 party members who got one though. Got a ton of blues/greens (5 or so rares) though and MF seems to really work for getting more gear, just mostly stuff to be vendored. Reward for play is just low enough to be non-existent for many players. Hope this is something that will improve soon.

5 rares on a week? Yesterday i got 6 rares in 4 events :/ Thats was luck anyways.

Blissified.8369:

Ive played for probably 400 hours and ive never seen an exotic drop,
*3)

Haha, you think that’s bad, I’ve clocked 1800+ hours since pre-launch and not 1, yes not 1 exotic drop other than those i got from map completions. And as you can imagine, I’ve killed 100’s of vets/champs/dragons etc. in that time.
I guess I’m the unluckiest person in the MMO world.

I don’t quite understand all of the drop rates and anything that goes along with them. I do know I was playing the game since launch and I really didn’t get many drops. I finally just wanted to test out MF gear so I crafted myself a set. I think I did that a little less than a month ago. Since that time, I have found about 2-3 exotics, I usually get at least one rare drop during the plinx event, a load of greens and blues, and of course junk.

I do break down all of my items except for exotics, I sell those unless it has a rune or sigil I would have bought on the trade post.

Heck, yesterday I showed up at the end of Jormag and I hit it two or three times with my bow and received an exotic from the chest. Now this has been the first time I received an exotic from a chest. The other two exotics I received were from regular mobs in Orr.

Again, I use MF gear and omnomberry bars.

Exotics are almost completely worthless as it is. and you want to make them EASIER to get???

There are only what, a dozen skins that are worth anything, why would you want to make items that are low in value even lower?

Played since launch and got my first two exotics during the Halloween event. Since then ive got two that were not account bound, six that were account bound from the fractals. Thats in 1k+ hours, and with very little MF.

I personally wouldnt pay attention to exotic drops anyhow… I get a fair few rares and four of those equal a basic exotic.

You cannot point at any specific sample of drops and say MF works or MF doesn’t. MF improving drop would be strictly a long-haul thing. Let’s say base chance for a rare is .5%, an exotic .1% (and yes, it could be that small). 200% MF would enhance the chance for a rare from .5% to 1.5% and for an exotic to .3%.

Also, MF does not effect the loot from chests, just drops from mobs.

530 hours never had an exotic drop.

I found my first exotic off a mob at month 3.

The only 1 I ever found.

played about 1200 hours, NO EXOTIC. Stop whining casual.

My first exotic dropped last week 650+ hours — 5 lvl 80 toons — and most of those toons have map completion in the zones that reward exotics-- I do orr, fractals and wvwvw — I was scratching my head a bit when the first one would drop but it really didnt bother me much.

RNG. I’ve gotten 3-4 in WvW.