Guild Wars 2

After hour and hours of farming and getting no drops. I mean literally 1 drop out of 50 kills. I’ve figured out why.
Magic find is bugged atm since you patched the drop rates. I crafted my buddy who plays his exotic magic find gear he just hit 80 on his guardian yesterday. He started complaining Magic Find sucked so he started using his old green fresh 80 armor and was getting 4 times as many drops actually more than that even rares.
I logged on his account to test it cause id on’t have a fresh none magic find gear on my warrior. It is 100% bugged you get tons more drops without magic find atm.
The reason so many people are angry because you said you increased drops but we saw a ridiculas decrease. I can only figure the plus magic find is giving a negative bonus to it.
I only took a small sample as it was friends account and we where both getting ready for the events, but from what he’s said and been getting and what i experienced it is the case.
If that isn’t the case then something went seriously wrong with the increase in drop in the patch.
Please fix asap!

Magic Find is worthless. Nothing changes.

If base magic find is say, 10%, then adding 100% more would place you at 20%. You should see double the drops.

Just doesn’t happen.

Hsinimod.5784:

Magic Find is worthless. Nothing changes.

If base magic find is say, 10%, then adding 100% more would place you at 20%. You should see double the drops.

Just doesn’t happen.

Completely agree. And with this new patch we didn’t even see the drops increase on more difficult mobs like vets champs.

i third this.. ever since end of event, i am getting not a single rare in any chest or mob in fractals, and on the weekend, i was getting minimum 1 rare, up to 2, and even exotics dropping off trash ! in fractals, even farming fine materials is ridiculous, someone in half the mf gear is getting triple the drops. im at around 180mf

Hsinimod.5784:

Magic Find is worthless. Nothing changes.

If base magic find is say, 10%, then adding 100% more would place you at 20%. You should see double the drops.

Just doesn’t happen.

really read the magic find on wiki. it only turns the chance of getting a good gear to a better lvl. for example if you have base 10% chance to get a rare item, with 100% magic find it’ll turns to 10% chance to get an exotic item,

Criusis.8752:

Hsinimod.5784:

Magic Find is worthless. Nothing changes.

If base magic find is say, 10%, then adding 100% more would place you at 20%. You should see double the drops.

Just doesn’t happen.

really read the magic find on wiki. it only turns the chance of getting a good gear to a better lvl. for example if you have base 10% chance to get a rare item, with 100% magic find it’ll turns to 10% chance to get an exotic item,

Nope, totally wrong.
It changes the normal drop %
If item X has 1% chanche to drop from mob Y , with 150% Magic find you’ll have 2,5% chanche to drop item X from mob Y (1% plus 150% of 1% that is another 1,5%)

The biggest problem here is that many people without a solid base-knowledge of statistics rage on the forum claiming “I killed 20 mob Y with magic find and without and it doesn’t change anything!!!!111!!one!!1”

Unless your count of kills is around the thousands of samples you can’t say anything about it working as intended (or not working as intended)
By the way, I think that some site should seriously try to implement drop tables for monsters…