Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, I’m just about to buy my first ascended item, and I’m not sure what infusion to use. all the infusions seem to suck. +4 to one stat doesn’t seem to be worth it. should I get one of the utility ones? If so, which one? I don’t do fractals that much, so I don’t really care about AR.

I went with +20% gold from monsters (Utility Infusion). Throw in a omnomberry bar and I almost always get 1s plus from mobs when they drop money.

Thief = Golden Lotus + 20% MF

would 20% gold find be better than 20% MF?

as far as i am aware MF doesn’t do much, everyone i have asked said they wasted there money on those sets + items.

should I go for the 20% gold then? I’m wondering though how much of the gold I receive is from monsters. it seems to me that most of it comes from chests.

basically comes down to what your doing, if your doing dungeon runs like CoF the gold find works nicely (bosses give lots of coin on drop) if your doing farming in Orr then you’ll end up being better with the MF, if your doing fractals you’ll probably just want to drop a versatile +5 AR in.

As amulets are the only ones that can use utility infusions at the moment you will at least only have to think about this once (you might end up just getting multiple amulets for different situations over time)

Of course you could be masochistic and farm up some masterwork infusions for the +5 stat +5 AR but I really wouldn’t recommend that for anything but your end game high level fractal gear.

gold find is much harder to get than magic find, which is the only reason I went with it. but magic find is used more often (or at least that’s what we think). (how often do you see coins drop from monsters compared to greens?)
if you run dungeons, get gold find. otherwise, it’s up to you.
the infusions sold there are not the only ones available to you. If you want to run fractals, look into these:
http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/#2
easier to get than the ones spent with laurels, give a tad more stats, but also give agony resistance (cost for each of these is around 15-25g, at least the ones I got)

Rago.4759:

would 20% gold find be better than 20% MF?

It’s 30% in total on the golden lotus including the upgrade. If you are running 100% or 200% you see the difference. Read the wiki on MF.

TL;DR: Magic find is best outside dungeons, gold find better inside dungeons.

Don’t go for MF its terrible, went from 0% MF to 200% MF, it made virtually zero difference to drops, either MF is bugged or the increase is so minute its totally pointless…

Your better off killing stuff faster and getting more drops than MF…