Guild Wars 2

I don’t know whether this a bug or not, and I didn’t know which forum to put this in so I put it here in case it was a bug.

With a Golden Doubloon and a Darksteel Ingot you can make an upgrade that gives you 0.4 magic find per kill which maxes out at 25 for the weapon that it is attached to. Now I made 3 of these upgrades and used them on my trident, axe and staff (Necromancer). What I expected to happen with these weapons was that i would kill 25 enemies with my staff, then another 25 with my axe, and the same with me trident. This would have resulted in 75 stacks, giving me 30 magic find.

But what actually happened was that when I reached 25 with my staff is that it didn’t go any higher when I used my other weapons. Now I am confused as to what has happened here, but have 4 ideas as to what has happened. If someone could tell me which one is right or if there is another reason it would be much appreciated.

1. It’s how Anet intended it to be, not allowing you to go past 25 with multiple weapons. (If so, could Anet please state in the description of the upgrade that multiple weapon magic find stacking does not work).

2. You can’t go past 25 stacks, but the 25 stacks count all of the weapons magic finds. Meaning that it uses those stacks on all weapons, resulting in 30 extra magic find. (I understand if this is hard to understand).

3. It’s bugged and doesn’t let you go past 25.

4. It’s bugged, but actually does keep counting past 25, just doesn’t show it.

If someone could shed some light on the topic I would be grateful.

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Working as intended.

It even says on the rune “Max 25 stacks” and since it’s a boon that 25 stack max goes for every weapon. This is how it works for every other “Gain +X Y after each kill. Max 25 stacks”

Elshagan.6342:

Working as intended.

It even says on the rune “Max 25 stacks” and since it’s a boon that 25 stack max goes for every weapon. This is how it works for every other “Gain +X Y after each kill. Max 25 stacks”

ok well thanks for clearing it up for me.

So to make it even more clear…

This sigil only works when you wield the weapon you equip it too, but in your case, you get this 0.4 per kill on any weapon (as you put it on all weapons). Whether you have it on one weapon or on all of them, it won’t let you build up any more than 25 stacks.

This stack bonus counts toward your character, for as long as it’s there (resets on downed), no matter what weapon you wield. So you could put it on one weapon, build up the 25stacks and then continue to fight with another weapon, or you put it on all weapons, meaning it doesn’t realy matter what weapon you wield you will build up those 25 stacks…

Hope that totally explains how this works I would advice you to put this upgrade on your ‘main’ prefered weapon, so you always build up those 25 stacks, to then have a different sigil on another weapon for an extra ‘umpf’ on a swap (f/e. of the Geomancer, gives bleeding on a swap, but i am sure there are more to pick from).

Then it’s a bit of a choice whether you put one on a water-weapon, it’s likely that you will play more above water than below, but if you are downed and loose the 25stacks it be annoying if you can’t just jump in and continue to fight. Still though putting it on one of your water-weapons and using another on your swap, could work just fine