Guild Wars 2

I feel like it is not.

I am grinding some events since a week now, with 40% MF food.

Today, I built up some expensive MF gear, 143% MF in total and I do not get any particular more green/blue/yellow items dropped. I rather feel I got more with less MF.

This is based on several hours/days of farming the same spot.

I used it but I found I had less weapon drops instead.

To be honest I’m not even sure what magicfind is supposed to do.

Its supposed to help you find better weapons/armour/items.

I find using Yam Fritters (18%) makes a noticeable difference.

I imagine it works something like this:

Say you have a base % chance to find a magical item. For the purpose of using round numbers we’ll use 10%.

If you have items that increase your chance to find magical items by 50%, it doesn’t actually increase your total chance to find magical items to 60% (10% base chance + 50% from items). Instead, the 50% increase would raise your total chance to find magical items to 15% (10% base + 10*0.50).

If we look at your example where you said you had a total of 143% increased chance, this would still only increase your total chance to find a magical item to 24.3% still assuming a 10% base. In reality, the base chance is probably a lot lower

jepoochy.1678:

If we look at your example where you said you had a total of 143% increased chance, this would still only increase your total chance to find a magical item to 24.3% still assuming a 10% base. In reality, the base chance is probably a lot lower

Well that sucks…. That would make it extremely useless, considering all the other stat bonuses you’d have to give up.

So why did it lower the chance of me even getting these items??

Im sure for that 1 hour period getting items that where shoddy and as soon as it stopped I was getting good items.

I noticed this also and agree with jepoochy that that is probably how it is calculated. I also ahve close to around 150% magic find when doing various tasks i noticed a difference very very very rarely. and found it to generaly not be worth the loss in stats. but with only dungeons or pvp left anyway and all stats cept power or precision being generaly useless in dungeons atm its kinda a toss up to what you want to use =/

Paulus magintie.7432:

So why did it lower the chance of me even getting these items??

Im sure for that 1 hour period getting items that where shoddy and as soon as it stopped I was getting good items.

There’s another thread that mentions that this game has a built in feature (if you really want to call it that) that causes the drop rate of mobs to go down if you continue to farm the same area for long periods of time. Perhaps this is what happened to you. I’ll try and dig up the other thread.

EDIT:: Found it, here it is https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/The-Longer-I-Farm-the-Worse-My-Drops-Get/first#post33194