Guild Wars 2

Ebon.7641:

They have clarified this. MF does not affect chests or anything other than loot from enemies. It works when an enemy is killed, not when it is looted (ie. you can’t kill stuff and then switch to MF gear and loot)

Good to know thank you.

I’m kind of new to GW2 but I have made a set of MF gear and my normal gear I wear while fighting. Whenever I loot a boss mob I always swap out to the MF gear and make sure some MF food running. When I’m done looting I swap back to the normal gear. Takes about 15 – 30 seconds. The only difficult part is certain accessory items don’t easily swap over by double clicking them (I think the rings). So if MF is an important stat perhaps we could get a equipment swap button like we have for weapons.

Also if we could get clarification of when MF counts that would be great. For instance if MF counts on the death of the mob vs the looting of the mob what I’m doing could be potentially a waste of time.