Luck or lack of it

Luck or lack of it

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Posted by: Par.8543

Par.8543

I was wondering how luck works, I currently am using food, a bow and armour to boost my luck. The food gives 26% , the bow gives 25% and the armour gives another 20% making a total of 71% of luck. The trouble is my drops aren’t very lucky, unless crab meat is gonna become extremely rare. After 1 hour of play I’d had 2 greens drop and around 20 karka shells, but most my drops were junk.

Luck or lack of it

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Posted by: Ilithis Mithilander.3265

Ilithis Mithilander.3265

71% MF isn’t a lot. All magic find does is increase the chances of getting nicer things. The wiki page will explain it better than I can:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_find

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Posted by: IndigoSundown.5419

IndigoSundown.5419

Let’s say the drop tables have a 1% chance to get a green item. With 71% MF, you’d have a 1.71% chance. If the drop table chance to get a green item is really .5%, then your chance would be .855%. Different rare things have different tables, and we don’t know the various drop rates. We can infer two things through empirical evidence: (1) blues have a better drop rate than greens, greens than yellows, yellow than orange; and (2) over time, with a random distribution, someone with 71% MF all the time will get better drops than someone with none because there is a bigger range of numbers that will produce the rarer results. This may not manifest in any given finite time frame, however, because it’s random.