Is my magic find to low for exotics?
iirc MF only affects the chance of exotic drops etc, but as far as i know no special amound of MF is required to have any chance at all to find exotics
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You can get exotics with no MF. You can get no exotics with high MF. What having MF does is make it more likely that you’ll see more exotics in the long run; it’s not something you’ll notice in any short term comparison.
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I have around 370 mf. I addition to that, while i’m doing a world boss i pop mf food, utility, some kind of metabolic/utility primer, banner mf and a mf booster. And if there is bonfire somewhere i use it of pop one myself. I have then over 500 of mf. And if i am on sw the mf is even higher becaise of the buff. The only thing i noticed is that i get more rares. I can’t remember what was my last exotic i got. So there you go.
I get drops rarely – think the last one was a week or so ago, but I can’t remember the last one before that. That’s RNG for you – higher MF, like others have said, will make it more likely, but they don’t drop often, regardless of what MF you have.
Do you need to pass 180-200% MF now to get exotics, or is a food boost item with MF needed to trigger the MF system to work.
I’ve only ever got an exotic from either leveling a character or crafting in the last 4 months and don’t know why I can’t get them from events or Bosses.
I play alot and my MF is 161% without any boosters on. I’ve mostly played in level 80 areas. Ideas anyone?
(MF=magic find)
I’ve gotten exotics with less MF than what you have. But you’re approaching it wrong.
Magic Find affects drops.
It does not affect Not-Drops.
It does not affect the Mystic Forge.
It does not affect salvaging.
It does not affect gathering.
It does not affect crafting.
It does not affect chests.
It does not affect boss chests.
It does not affect champ bags.
It does not affect bags.
It does not affect sacks.
It does not affect most event-spawned enemies (which are altered to drop nothing at all).
In short, if you want your magic find to have any meaning, stop following the herd. Or play PvP.
I have around 370 mf. I addition to that, while i’m doing a world boss i pop mf food, utility, some kind of metabolic/utility primer, banner mf and a mf booster. And if there is bonfire somewhere i use it of pop one myself. I have then over 500 of mf. And if i am on sw the mf is even higher becaise of the buff. The only thing i noticed is that i get more rares. I can’t remember what was my last exotic i got. So there you go.
Well, so you know, open world chests don’t care about your Magic Find, so boosting it while fighting world bosses doesn’t really do anything. You’d improve the chances that the Champion Svanir Shaman might have a rare or exotic on his corpse to loot (if you’re one of the ones lucky enough to get credit and a lootable corpse from him), but it doesn’t affect the goodies you get in the big world chest or in the bonus rare wiggle chest.
Similarly, in Silverwastes most of your rewards are coming from event chests. Your Magic Find is only going to matter for opening Lost Bandit Chests (which don’t actually have exotic equipment on their loot tables) or from the random enemies between forts that the vast majority of people ignore. So unless you’re going on sprees killing devourers and earth elementals and hyenas in Silverwastes, you won’t notice the Magic Find too much there either.
If you have a lot of Magic Find, you should be going to events where you can kill huge quantities of loot-dropping enemies. Spend some time in Orr, do the Temple events there where dozens of enemies will feed themselves into the players thresher for loot drops. Try out Dry Top during the sandstorm and slaughter all of the Dust Mites and Devourers from the events there to pick up some dough and Charged Lodestones. Basically, fight lots of critters that you can kill quickly and that drop individual loot. Then you’ll see your Magic Find pay off.