Guild Wars 2

What utility infsuion do people like to run and why?

My thoughts:

Magic find: Hard to argue with, but how much a difference does it really make? 20% MF yes, but when you consider it in the context of overall MF for a player is it worth it? I dont know what average MF is for a typical player, but most people in my guild who casually play have about 150 or so. You run some MF food, and now we have the other MF halloween utilities, (pumpkin thing, crystalized nougate, ect…) You add banners adn teh occasional bonfire and you are now 200-300 MF. To my mind, the 20% from the utility infsuion is less attractive as it may be only a 10% overall improvement or so. I’m not sure there is any easy way to quantify this in terms of how it results into more rares/exotic in the long run.

Gold: I recently bought this one, and I"m haivng buyers remorse. 20% more gold from monsters. How much money are we getting from regular mobs anyway? 80 copper or so? Not a heck of a lot. 20% increase of a pittance is still a pittance.

Experience: Maybe the least usefull in my mind. First, you arent goign to be able to equip it until you are level 80 anyway. exp is very easy to come by in other ways that are much more effective and not influenced by this infusion. (events, dungeons). that being said, I do see some way it could be good. More exp would translate into more skill points, and skill points can be converted into gold quite profitably thorugh MF promotion. So maybe its something to consider, but i have some doubts.

Karma: I think most people dont carea bout karma, have a ton of it and dont know waht to do with it, so this would be the least useful. Depending on what you want to acheive though, I think it could be helpful. I go through a lot of karma. I like to make ascended gear and have made legendaries in the past. this takes a lot of obi shards, and the easiest way to get obi shards is karma. I figure this infusion could be effectively used when farming events, whether cursed shore, silverwastes,. Also map completion doing hearts, and certaily EOTM if you are on a karma train.

Opinions please!

Infusions are not really worth it if you don’t do FotM, since the stats or bonus they give are not great for the price: as you said you can always do better with boosters and food.

If I really had to choose, I’ll go with MF. It allows you to either max out your MF, or to take a non-MF food if you’re facing difficult content (Fractals, WvW, etc.) and still have decent MF. Karma can be a good choice too if you’re into making legendaries.

If your only use for karma is obsidian shards then karma isn’t all that useful anymore. You can get a lot of it from the bandit chests in Silverwastes. They can also be bought with Bandit Crests. The infusion gets you 1 extra obsidian shard around every 37th event.

I’ve got MF on every character. It probably doesn’t help much, but none of them seem all that impressive anyway.

Experience might be handy once HoT hits, assuming that it will affect the growth rate of masteries. Not sure whether it will or not, but it would stand to reason that if you no longer level up and gain normal experience once you hit level 80 once you get HoT (and ascended items are ONLY useable at level 80) it would have to boost mastery experience gain or else it’d be completely useless.

I use Karma as the others are not as useful anymore. MF isn’t that great anymore since they added champ bags and put almost everything into containers which are not affected by MF. Gold was only really used for dungeons such as the CoF farm but that changed with that one update years ago. I think the other one is XP which really isn’t a concern for most people as we have skill scrolls.