Guild Wars 2

The way it is now it gives more rewards for the player that is contributing less for the party, because if you are using all magic find you reduce your dps or survivability, the others will have to do more efforts to compensate the one running full mf gear. If the sum of all players magic find be divided between all the party members it’ll be more fair.

Just don’t party with players that are in Full Magic Find gear. Magic Find is for Grinding, not running Instances/Parties. And it should not be balanced between all members, because that’s when Magic find falls off the train as being a ‘OK stat’ for grinding.

I like running with my 200% to grinding out T5/T6 Mats in my Farming Spots, And I like grouping with people at those spots to kill stuff faster, if they are not running the same % of Magic Find as I am, why should I suffer due to their lack of gearing skills? that is unfair. I spent a lot of time and Gold on my Magic Find stats, other players shouldn’t benefit from it by being ‘Carried’ to a higher % then they are wearing.

But on the other side of the coin, you’ll never see my wearing Magic Find in Instances, Dynamic World Events, or during the Living story events. Magic Find weighs to heavy against other stated Gear to be brought onboard in those situations, and other players need to realize that and stop being greedy.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Magic-Find-What-I-don-t-like/first#post1972867

ColinJohanson.2394:

Some fun ideas in here, we’re also actively discussing ways on how we’d best like to alleviate having to make players choose between having better stats, or using magic find. It’s not a choice that’s great for game play and there isn’t really anything that fun about it, even more so when group composition is taken into account. Ideally we’d also like to keep the ability to slowly build your magic find over time, but doing this at the cost of using better stats isn’t the right way to do that.

No ETA on any changes here, just want to point out we agree there is an issue here that goes against what we want Gw2 to be, and is something we want to address.

They are aware that magic find isn’t working well. I heard a rumor that magic find might be an inherent stat based off the rarity of the piece of gear you where wearing which would be okay with me. Doesn’t take up stat allocation and rewards you for having shiny gear with more shiny gear.

I’m under the impression that traveler’s set increases power and condition damage
While explorer’s improves power and precision

both of which are offensive stats

sirsquishy.8531:

Just don’t party with players that are in Full Magic Find gear. Magic Find is for Grinding, not running Instances/Parties.

But if you ask for gear ping you will be called elitist at least. If there was a way to inspect what people are wearing then there would be no problem with that. But many leechers don’t want this to happen because they would be kicked from parties.

Raestloz.7134:

I’m under the impression that traveler’s set increases power and condition damage
While explorer’s improves power and precision

But their main stat is magic find so those people would contribute more by running with non mf gear.

Overall I think sharing mf with the party is a great idea. Those who want high mf would just group with likeminded people and everybody would be happy.

This was done in Diablo 3, and was very unpleasant. You had to have atleast ** amount of magic find or gtfo.

Phoenix.7845:

sirsquishy.8531:

Just don’t party with players that are in Full Magic Find gear. Magic Find is for Grinding, not running Instances/Parties.

But if you ask for gear ping you will be called elitist at least. If there was a way to inspect what people are wearing then there would be no problem with that. But many leechers don’t want this to happen because they would be kicked from parties.

Raestloz.7134:

I’m under the impression that traveler’s set increases power and condition damage
While explorer’s improves power and precision

But their main stat is magic find so those people would contribute more by running with non mf gear.

Overall I think sharing mf with the party is a great idea. Those who want high mf would just group with likeminded people and everybody would be happy.

I find it to be a horrifying idea. All the efforts you put into increasing MF: food, equips, runes, all will be for naught the moment someone is 10% short. People need money to buy the MF gear in the first place. Sometimes, they’d need to farm. MF runes aren’t cheap. I myself don’t have a full deck MF yet for my MF gear, and if I (who are actively trying to get more MF) aren’t decked yet, how do I expect others to be better than me?

If the problem in the first place is MF gear being worn in dungeons, I don’t think MF sharing is the solution

aspirine.6852:

This was done in Diablo 3, and was very unpleasant. You had to have atleast ** amount of magic find or gtfo.

Now there are people who will kick a pug from the party if they see he’s using mf gear.

Raestloz.7134:

If the problem in the first place is MF gear being worn in dungeons, I don’t think MF sharing is the solution

Why not. Maybe people wouldn’t come to dungeons with full mf gear if they know that thier getting only 20% of bonus mf.