I have a full set of Jatoro’s Armor for my lv80 necro. My necro is a conditionmancer and spreads conditions very effectively. I have spent some time over the holidays running around doing events in Orr or killing random mobs in various zones. I am usually running in full Jatoro’s Armor with full magic find gear with exotic trinkets and omnomberry bars for food. I also have magic find weapons. With full stacks of magic find I have 117%MF base and this doesn’t count any guild flag buffs or anything else such as the occasional MF 50% booster. Here is what I have noticed:
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- Running events in Orr with my MF gear on, I have gotten maybe 2 rares in the past few weeks. I get primarily blue or lower items. It is very common for me to kill a wave in Penitent/Sentinel/Jofast camps and receive only receive 1 gray Porous Bone out of 10 or so individuals that I receive XP for killing. Sometimes I will get 1 or 2 blues and maybe 15% of the time I may get a masterwork green item. I have gotten maybe 4 rares in 2-3 weeks.
-I have killed countless Champions and Veterans in many different zones(not just Orr) and I have received nothing for a drop more than 50% of the time. If anything does drop the other 50% of the time it is almost always a blue.
-Without MF gear and using what I like to call my WvW or dungeon gear, I have gotten at least double if not 4 times the amount of random drops of rares and even a few exotics. What is even stranger is that I seem to get more things rare or higher in lower level zones. I was killing the harpies in the event with the mortars near the Old Dukes estate in the Plains of Ashford and I received 2 rares in one event without my MF gear.
-What also seems strange is that I seem to have a quota per day of how many rares or exotics I can get. When things reset at 7PM EST, it really seemed like I get the highest chance for a rare or higher drop.
-The only way to really get anything good in this game now is to run fractals or dungeons or so it would seem.
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I would love to put some hard numbers behind these observations because we all know without the statistics that perception can be wrong. However, I honestly think it is a waste of time to record how many mobs of level X I killed and what exactly I got when the client should be able to automate this or a third party app(sanctioned only be Anet) could do this. I personally don’t feel like I want to be working while I am trying to game by recording data entry for something that could easily be automated.
Do any devs have an automated way to record this information via the client or are there any third party apps? I would be more than happy to kill things constantly solo or otherwise to determine test the loot tables/results.
Hopefully this information is helpful, I am quite frustrated with the situation after investing so much gold into MF gear. I really liked this game since it felt like in the past you did not have to spend hours in dungeons to get good gear.