Guild Wars 2

Now while I cannot prove any of this as true since you have to factor in luck into the equation but I do believe there is currently a bug with the Magic Find system.

Myself and another guy have the same amount of MF. (all mf gear,runes/sigils, food, etc)
Roughly 150-160% without boosters.

If I’m lucky in 5 hours of farming I’ll get about 10-15 rares.

My friend on the other hand can get that or more in 1 hour of farming.

This is farming the exact same events, with the same MF. This is also taking into consideration the possible diminishing returns on loot. (These statistics are based on when we first login in the morning so we should be void of any DR)

Now you could just say that I’m unlucky, but this happens repeatedly not just on a bad day. My friend could be lying but judging by his armor, etc. I do not believe this to be the case.

I have a similar issue. I have way more magic find than my friend(120+ over his 60 or so, boosters and food included) and just got to a new area to farm just after logging in so no DR. First few minutes I will get a few potent bloods, and if I’m lucky a powerful. But soon after I start getting only junk blues, rags, or gray trophies. After an hour or so my friend has around 3-4 rares, several powerful bloods and is still getting decent drops. As for myself, I have 1 powerful blood and a few potents, no rares, maybe a few greens and upwards of 50 gray trophies.

I’m almost certain my trophies brought in more money than selling the rest of my drops (aside from the craft mats).

Maybe its just luck of the draw.. but it seems like either one of these is the case:

1) The fact that I have more magic find gives me what the game decides as “my extra drops” in a shorter period of time than my friend, thus triggering DR for me much faster than my friend.

2) Less likely but possible.. Something player or account specific(like a characters name) is part of the seed used for randomly determining drops. This would be completely unfair as that would leave someone permanently screwed unless perfect conditions for that player came together.

IMO its really shady to have a secret DR system that limits drops, even for players who may have paid real money for magic find boosters. There’s a better way to combat bot farmers: ban them.

I also have the same problem. People with about the same magic find as me, or less magic find than me (I’ve had people with 0 MF get more rares than me in an hour period)are getting considerably more rares, or just loot in general than I am. For some reason I feel as if my DR is bugged or some sort, and will not reset.

Just sounds like RNG to me. Prove it.