Guild Wars 2

I have been fortunate enough to level my magic find to 300%. I have also been fortunate to get that level raise through the use of achievement points, thank you for that by the way. With that being said, I have collected a lot of unusable Essences of luck through the daily and monthly. I also have several “Refugee child’s drawings” which also reward luck also unusable to me. Is there a plan to raise the cap on the luck? I noticed that you have implemented ways to consume bloodstone dust and now Karma, is something in the works for the extra luck?

Thank you for your time and consideration in the matter.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Attuned_Grow_Lamp
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Powerful_Grow_Lamp

EAT
MORE
LUCK.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

EAT
MORE
LUCK.

Come on, you don’t eat luck.

Obviously, you snort it.

my achievement based luck helped put me over 300 and i’m not sure but it seemed to function better when i reached 300 through non-achievement based luck.. i could be wrong though and i can’t really advise someone to do so, but if it were me i would consume luck until your baseline is 300 without achievement rewards

Perhaps if we could use them to create potions of luck?

If there were a use for luck past 300% mf, it would only encourage people to keep getting it. I’m sure they capped it at 300% because they didn’t want you to keep getting it. trouble is, it’s nearly impossible to stop getting it. Which is why I rushed to 280% mf and now I’m not trying to get more, but just let it come in naturally through salvaging blues and greens I find. By my math, it will be about April 2016 when I get to 300% and have to start destroying it instead of using.

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

Come on, you don’t eat luck.

Obviously, you snort it.

I got super high on luck once. Thought I looted a precursor. Turns out the loot tables for Moas are not so great and other than putting them on the brink of extinction, all I got was a bunch of feathers.

The seraph nearly arrested me for it, but I explained to them very slowly and carefully that if they want a precursor, they can go farm it themselves. The leeches.

Labjax.2465:

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

Come on, you don’t eat luck.

Obviously, you snort it.

I got super high on luck once. Thought I looted a precursor. Turns out the loot tables for Moas are not so great and other than putting them on the brink of extinction, all I got was a bunch of feathers.

The seraph nearly arrested me for it, but I explained to them very slowly and carefully that if they want a precursor, they can go farm it themselves. The leeches.

I don’t have the words for this. +1 to you, sir.

Luck has little uses other than consuming it.

I would not mind of there was another one.

Maybe some artificer luck potions or something.

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

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Come on, you don’t eat luck.

Obviously, you snort it.

I was rubbing it on me buttocks! Maybe that’s why I was being so unlucky.

Thank you all for your enlightening responses to the post. I suppose I am at fault for rocking a natural 300% a week after the magic find revamp came out. I have enjoyed the constant rain of rare drops as well as exotics over the last year. Now with the added 11% MF from Achievement Points, it is not uncommon for me to run close to 500% or higher fully buffed with in game bonuses. Now if luck was a crafting material and was able to deposited into the bank, I would be able to deposit most of the unusable commodity “Essences of Luck” I would settle to upgrade the Exotic Luck to the Legendary Purple ones you get as a reward for the monthly. I am sure I can’t be the only one with this problem, I can see by one of the responses there is at least one other player very close to the 300% and has figured out when and where he will get it. I tip my hat to the math mate. I just wish the game would recognize that my “Luck” is maxed and maybe offer me a lesser value alternate reward.

There should be a title for maxing luck.

I just can’t think of a cool one that isn’t at least mildly offensive.

Maybe “Soldier of Fortune?” It’s kind of weak, but it might work.

I want to weep. After all this time and not selling any blues and greens I still have 149% MF. In desperation, I tried the ectoplasm salvaging that was recommended once, but a stack did not raise it even quite 1%.

I am really thinking giving up on essences of luck once I get to 150%. Maybe then I will sometimes have some gold to spend…

Yeah, past 100% it’s not worth trying to raise it, IMO. I just salvage everything and let it slowly creep up, but if you want to focus on raising it past that…get ready for the grind of your life O.o

Last I knew, salvaging ectos was the best way to go, you could almost break even selling the other drops (dust IIRC?) you get from it.

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

Azure The Heartless.3261:

EAT
MORE
LUCK.

Come on, you don’t eat luck.

Obviously, you snort it.

I’ve been injecting it into my bloodstream. Maybe that’s why I’m not up to 300% yet.

moonglum.1429:

I noticed that you have implemented ways to consume bloodstone dust.

I must be out of the loop — can you do something with bloodstone dust besides --> bricks —> ascended?

dlonie.6547:

moonglum.1429:

I noticed that you have implemented ways to consume bloodstone dust.

I must be out of the loop — can you do something with bloodstone dust besides --> bricks —> ascended?

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Garambola.2461:

I want to weep. After all this time and not selling any blues and greens I still have 149% MF. In desperation, I tried the ectoplasm salvaging that was recommended once, but a stack did not raise it even quite 1%.

I am really thinking giving up on essences of luck once I get to 150%. Maybe then I will sometimes have some gold to spend…

1 stack of ecto raised your luck less than 1%? O.o
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glob_of_Ectoplasm/salvage_research
with a master kit, 1 ecto gives about 104.4 luck. So 250 would give 26,100 luck. going from 149 to 150% requires 11,330. So 1 stack would of got you an additional 2.3% mf.
you need to be above 206% mf for 1 stack to not even give 1% luck
For me to get to 280%, I salvaged roughly 20 stacks of ecto, 160,000 blues, 60,000 greens. If I were to find all those blues and greens on my own, I estimate it would take about 3,000 hours. Instead, I placed buy orders for 250 on about 500 of the cheapest blues and greens (taking what they salvage into into account). blues come in quicker, but greens give more luck per salvage.