Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

I’ll keep it brief for those that have been wondering about how much truth there is to Magic Find.

I picked 10 locations around Tyria specifically farming Fine Crafting Materials.
- I farmed them for 1.5 hours each x 3 (30 1.5 hour farms total)
– No magic find
– 62% Magic Find
– 160% Magic Find

I did not record any increase when using MF gear over no MF gear. In some cases, running 160% MF I recorded up to 20% less loot than not wearing any MF at all. In ALL cases, I picked up more Yellows when not wearing any MF.

I have all of the data and I will be expanding on this so I will certainly post it in the future. I just thought for now some people might want to shortcut to the answer:

MF DOES NOT WORK

Feel free to share your own experiences if you like.

Holy crud, this is both insightful and scientific.

Well I’m convinced

Omen.1879:

MF DOES NOT WORK
Feel free to share your own experiences if you like.

I dont know ive never played an MMORPG with magic find thing…till i bough this game so i dont use it, i dont feel like playing treasure hunter games.

thats my experience…i dont even use it.

Do you even diminishing returns?

i started playing a ranger not wearing any form of magic find 100% world completion 10g.
now i play a mesmer with magic find 70% world completion 43g

Trute.6315:

Do you even diminishing returns?

If he’s doing the same amount of time in each area and switching areas, then the DR wouldn’t matter. It would be the exact same for each farm.

(done this before DR was active)
killed “Skales” for 30 minutes without magic find: 9x blood
killed “Skales” for 30 minutes with 30% MF: 13x blood + 1 rare staff

does it proof anything?
no.
does OP’s post proofs anything?
no.
would a game really have a non-existent value into it without having a bunch of code/programming-pros noticing it for almost half of a year?
hell no.

ít’s all about luck…some have it some don’t.

i salvaged 25 lv80 rares with a master-kit – 3 ectos…
did it again 25 times – 30 ectos…

As far a we know, “magic find” could very well be another bugged feature. Look at all the exploits and bugs in more visible features (like a boss behavior), and now imagine all the bugs in more invisible features, like diminishing returns, magic find etc., bugs that we will never know about.

If you actually wanted to prove it, you would need to farm in intervals of 50 mobs with at least a 20 minutes downtime inbetween. You’d then need 100,000 mobs per sample.

After 20 minutes of solo AoE farming (maybe 100 mobs), I hit the DR cap. Hitting the DR cap will pretty much normalize all your samples.