Guild Wars 2

I just opened a number of essences of luck. What I found is that, for the character I opened them on, the magic find went up. On the character opening the most it went up 11%. All other characters remained at 84%, the original number. I did try logging out and back in (by exiting the game) but the numbers didn’t change.

My understanding was that luck was account-wide. Is this no longer the case or is it a bug?

Magic Find is account bound. You can have additional character-bound boosters that will raise it further. For example:

• Your account has 8% Magic Find.
• Character A, without bonuses shows 8%
• Character B, representing a guild with an active MF boost, shows 18%
• Character C, repping that same guild and with an Omnom Bar, shows 48%

See the wiki’s article on Magic Find for a list of all the different boosts.

(There is also a server-wide boost, depending on how many points your world has scored in WvW during the week, so you number could drop on Friday after reset, when the matches restart.)

Yes, I understand that. The character that opened the most I watched as it went up 11%. All other characters remained at the original number—no one else increased MF by percent. So, there is a discrepancy now between characters. Shouldn’t all characters be at the same MF if they have received no additional buffs?

Yes, all characters should have the same base magic find.

Are you checking your magic find on the equipment page of the hero panel or the achievement page? The acheivement page shows your base magic find without considering buffs, so will give the clearest way to check if your characters really have different values.

One thought for a ‘hidden’ magic find buff – are you characters repping different guilds?

Raine.1394:

Yes, I understand that. The character that opened the most I watched as it went up 11%. All other characters remained at the original number—no one else increased MF by percent. So, there is a discrepancy now between characters. Shouldn’t all characters be at the same MF if they have received no additional buffs?

All the characters will have the same account-wide buff. Where are you looking that you are seeing something else? Maybe you could share some screen shots, which would make it easier for us to troubleshoot with you.