Guild Wars 2

Today I was farming at Ore for 40min with 151% Magic Find and the closest thing to decent drop was a Large Scale. Please explain me how is this possible.
I am expecting this to be bug, if not it’s a complete rip off, I bought a lot of Magic Find equipment, jewels, sigils and consumables, just to find out that I was victim of a fraud!!!

That COULD just be…. particularly bad luck.

+151% Magic Find means that you have 2.51x your usual chance for direct enemy drops to be of above-white quality. If your chance of blues was 5%, it becomes 12.55%; if your chance of greens was 2%, it becomes 5.02%; if your chance of rares was 1%, it becomes 2.51%. (These are fictitous numbers used for example purposes, I do not know ACTUAL drop rates.)

Short version: Do NOT expect it to rain rares and exotics just because your MF hits three digits. You will see an overall increase in non-white loot, but 2.5x a tiny number is still a pretty small number. (Or, in the words of Cyrano Jones, “Twice nothing is still nothing.”)

It’s not that you were “ripped off”, so much as you didn’t fully understand what you were buying. MF bonuses DO help, in the sense of “it’s better than nothing”, but you seem to be expecting instant wealth.

(Also, it will be moot when it’s dropped as a gear stat. The consumables will be a lot more desirable, though.)

P.S. It could also depend on your definition of a “decent drop”; if you don’t count blue equipment as decent, well… it’s still blue. That’s enough. “Fine” items could be Large Scales or Iridescent Dust, or they could be a dagger, or a helmet. Blue is blue. And it ONLY affects direct drops – it won’t affect the contents of chests or loot sacks.

The thing is that I did not get any equipment drop at all, during that period of time, and I also went back the day after with the same result.
The ONLY objected that dropped was the Large Scale.

It’s possible you (and/or your party) aren’t doing enough damage relative to other players. In the massive zergfests that champ hunting has become in Orr, some players are likely to be better off with AoE damage builds rather than full magic find: more damage to more targets will generate more drops.

The easiest way to test that this is the issue is to leave the zerg and fight some of the easier groups. If you are still not getting any drops while soloing or when it’s just your party, then I’d recommend contacting support (top navigation bar, 3rd link from the left; use the “ask a question” option).