Guild Wars 2

I have been playing with 173% magic find for a month and a half now and i have noticed that my buddy that i farm with and has about 40% less magic find seems to find about 3 times the amount of items that i do. My question is has there been any investigation as to how Magic Find works and if there are any bugs with it? It seems that when im in a group im the only one not finding items, even though i have a large amount of MF. This isnt a one time issue ive noticed this trend over a month and a half now and its very consistent. I dont know if its just Asurans or what but it seems that magic find doesnt effect my character as much as other characters.

If anyone else has noticed this please let me know.

As far as I know, ANet hasn’t released any actual numbers for magic find. However, considering how almost every other % increase in the game works, having loads of MF may not really help a huge amount.

If you figure that you have, for example, a base 1% chance of getting a rare item to drop (assuming you win the roll for loot at all from a mob), your 173% MF would only give you a 2.73% chance of having the same item drop.