Guild Wars 2

Account Magic Find

"""We want to remove the choice players are currently being forced to make on their gear: “Do I go with better stats, or better loot?” This isn’t in the spirit of cooperation that Guild Wars 2 is all about. As such, we’ll be removing magic find entirely as an item stat and turning it into account stat that improved the odds of rare drops for all your characters.

You can improve your account magic find through the account achievement reward system and from consumable items found in game. As your magic find increases, it will require more consumables to keep raising it higher. In the near future, we’ll detail the system we’ll use to replace the existing magic find items. Our goal will be to have as little disruption as possible to those who currently own items with a magic find stat on them."""

Since this info came out, it got me wondering what will happen to the stat that is currently imbedded on tons of gear. What will replace MF on those items?

Since you have this vote coming up on the New Living story….Cutthroat Politics.
Where we will be giving our support, to get certain unlocks for the game. Like the new Fractal we get later on, all hangs on who gets the spot on the council.

I propose that the the winner of the vote, will give us a pick between two stats that are not abundantly available on gear items now. Which is to say I don’t know what those two stats should be, but I was kinda wanting Condition Duration as a gear stat. I would love to hear everyone tell us what stats could be the two stats that are currently not readily available on items now, that could take the spot of MF when its is removed.

Rock the vote!

maybe we can select the stat we want only once after the transition? that would make everyone happy i hope.

i really don’t know, (i trust anet common sense) but for me condition duration is useless since a single condition cleansing skill can cancel any condition despite how long it last.
for me boon duration would be much better

I’d much rather have A-net make a vender which accepts MF gear, and refunds currency for them. For example: If you have the Golden Lotus amulet, equiped with the 20% MF infusion, then you will be refunded 50 laurels. This will allow players to re-place their hard-earned currency into what they DO want. Rather than get a stat combo they may never use.

Might add, that coming up with a new idea of a stat is acceptable for discussion.

What about if the stat that replaces MF is it increases your profession specific stat.

adrenaline skill recharge for warriors, virtue recharge for guardians, pet attributes for rangers, toolbelt recharge rate for engineers, steal recharge rate for thieves, attunement recharge for elementalists, shatter recharge for mesmers, and the size of the life force pool for necromancers.

I think it would be a interesting stat to add to armor.

My guess is that mf gear will be salvaged into the consumables that boost account magic find. A generic stat replacement may not be viable given the diversity of builds.

The should remove the MF stat and replace it with nothing. Then add a vendor that exchanges the armor for account bonuses. This will allow players who only have MF armor to keep their armor and use it until they get new armor and then turn it in.

I vote we wait and see what they have planned before freaking out.