Guild Wars 2

Hello,
I have a couple questions on magic find that I am hoping some one can help me with.

1) Does magic find increase rewards from chests such as the one from after the claw of jormang??

2) If do I need to have the gear equipped during the fight? or Can I use my normal gear and then change before opening the chest?

hello, below is copy/paste of Isaiah Cartwright, Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Magic-Find-Chests/first#post598159

“They only work on creature kills, chests however have a better table then normal kills. We wanted to avoid the game play of killing a boss and then having to equip your whole Magic Find set before opening the chest.
Also magic find is calculated from when the creature is killed so it’s also not viable to use your normal gear set kill a boss then switch to magic find.”

“It does not work on the Mystic Forge, magic find only effects the loot generated from killing monsters. (this includes crafting materials, higher tiers of loot like rares & exotics… etc… )
Granted Zomoross is mighty and I’m sure he randomly gives more favor to those who are wearing a tin foil hat in real life and are spinning in their chair while clicking the forge button he is evil like that.”

Thank you! I appreciate that.

In my point, magic find is waste of time. i worked to get exotic gear with magic find. I regret making that decision, since there is no point in having it on because normal mobs almost never drop rare. i killed like 2000 mobs and got 1 rare with non mf gear. on other character the out come is like 1800 mobs and 1 rare with mf gear. This is estimate. If i had normal exotic gear i kill much faster compare to mf gear. so they is no point in mf in my view.

One rare item is way too small a sample size to say with any authority whether or not MF gear works.

I suspect the rare drop rate varies by zone too. Nearly half the rare items I’ve gotten from regular mobs (8 out of about 20) have come from Sparkfly Fen. I even got 4 rares there in ~1 hour once. I’m not going out of my way to spend time in there either – basically just killing trash waiting for the dragon to show up. I have a few pieces of MF gear, but nothing outlandish (I think it’s around 10%-15%).

that is why i said like… i never took count of of my kills.

my point was what you said(more clearly); more you kill more chance of drops=more change of rare item.