Guild Wars 2

Celestial, an existing stat type that was recently made craftable, is time-gated making it take a long time to craft a single piece of the gear. Let alone a full set.
The Celestial stat-type happens to give the wearer access to Magic Find. With the recent reveal that gear with Magic Find on it will be removed from the game, will this mean that Celestial will be removed too? Will that Magic Find itself just be removed, with the points that had gone into it being allocated to the other stats?
I mean, what’s the point of adding a new stat-type if it’ll be removed in the near future? Especially if the way to craft a full set can take well over a month or two.

“We want to remove the choice players are currently being forced to make on their gear: “Do I go with better stats, or better loot?” This isn’t in the spirit of cooperation that Guild Wars 2 is all about. As such, we’ll be removing magic find entirely as an item stat and turning it into account stat that improved the odds of rare drops for all your characters.

You can improve your account magic find through the account achievement reward system and from consumable items found in game. As your magic find increases, it will require more consumables to keep raising it higher. In the near future, we’ll detail the system we’ll use to replace the existing magic find items. Our goal will be to have as little disruption as possible to those who currently own items with a magic find stat on them."

Removing MF as a stat. Celestial will still be the “all stats” gear. MF will be on the accounts instead so you won’t need to stress it on gear in lieu of other stats.

By the way, when it says removed, it could mean they are going to replace magic find with a stat of your choice.

So if my Exotic helm has 3% magic find on it, I may have the option of replacing it with 3% gold find or other stats appropriate with exotic gear.

We know they will have this capability since they mentioned legendary weapons having the ability to change stats on the fly.

VOLKON.1290:

“We want to remove the choice players are currently being forced to make on their gear: “Do I go with better stats, or better loot?” This isn’t in the spirit of cooperation that Guild Wars 2 is all about. As such, we’ll be removing magic find entirely as an item stat and turning it into account stat that improved the odds of rare drops for all your characters.

You can improve your account magic find through the account achievement reward system and from consumable items found in game. As your magic find increases, it will require more consumables to keep raising it higher. In the near future, we’ll detail the system we’ll use to replace the existing magic find items. Our goal will be to have as little disruption as possible to those who currently own items with a magic find stat on them."

Removing MF as a stat. Celestial will still be the “all stats” gear. MF will be on the accounts instead so you won’t need to stress it on gear in lieu of other stats.

I read the article thank you, and I know that they’re making Magic Find account bound. Though from the sound of it, it looks like the gear itself will be removed. If Celestial itself is just getting its stats changed, then that’s fine.

Though what I’m trying to get at here is, why make a stat-type craftable if it’s going to get changed in a few months time??

They’re not removing the gear, they’re removing the MF stat off the gear. You may, for example, see the MF on Celestial gear disappear but all stats have +5 more points.

I think they’re just going to take the MF % out of it.

They can always make celestial’s stat numbers slightly higher. BTW, isn’t the new celestial exotic pieces better, comparatively to other exotic stats, than ascended celestial is compared to other ascended stats?