Guild Wars 2

Not my idea, but a brilliant one.

Thought process:

ANet wants players with Ascended Items to be at an advantage over players with Exotics.
A large number of people do not want Ascended Items to be a power boost over Exotics.
No-one likes other players running Magic Find Gear.

So: Make Ascended Items have Exotic numbers, but instead of only having 1 primary and two secondary stats, give them 2 primary and two secondery stats. But one of those primary stats is always Magic Find. Give them cool new skins, add an Infusion slot to everything, and call it a day.

This does everything they’ve stated they what from Ascended items, and stays (mostly) true to the “No Vertical Progression” promise:
Magic Find as a bonus stat will not change the outcome of a fight once it has started: No power creep, so not required to be at maximum effectiveness in WvW.
Magic Find will allow players with Ascended gear to be at an advantage over players without: They don’t need to farm as much for stuff, so will be able to get new stuff faster than players with Exotics.
Players who want to run Magic Find can do so without hampering the rest of their party.

I see no downside here. Does anyone else?

It does require a massive grind to acquire the ascension gear atm (at least what we can get of it anyway).

To put it simply , almost nobody will be able to get their hands on it , thus , people will keep using rare/exo MF gear mostly anyway.

While true … the people that actually manage to farm it one day , will not have to worry about less stats.

Living up to the original promises of no gear grind treadmill, would be even better, but with that promise broken, the OP’s suggestion would be an improvement on the current situation.

Oops, missed one bit of the original idea:

Remove Magic Find from all other armour sets. Make Travellers, Explorers and Wayfarers give some other effect instead.

My suggestion would be:
Travellers: Vitality
Explorers: Toughness
Wayfarers: Healing Power