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GW2 Magic Find, Mystic Forge, and Chests

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MFire

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Arenanet has finally given us an OFFICIAL statement regarding Magic Find affecting the items gotten from chests and mystic forge:


Isaiah Cartwright
Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer

They only work on creature kills, chests however have a better table then normal kills. We wanted to avoid the game play of killing a boss and then having to equip your whole Magic Find set before opening the chest.

Also magic find is calculated from when the creature is killed so it’s also not viable to use your normal gear set kill a boss then switch to magic find.
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Source: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/dungeons/Magic-Find-Chests/first#post597487

Isaiah Cartwright
Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer

It does not work on the Mystic Forge, magic find only effects the loot generated from killing monsters. (this includes crafting materials, higher tiers of loot like rares & exotics… etc… )

Granted Zomoross is mighty and I’m sure he randomly gives more favor to those who are wearing a tin foil hat in real life and are spinning in their chair while clicking the forge button he is evil like that.
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Source: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/dungeons/Magic-Find-Chests/first#post598159


You heard it here folks. Grab your tin foil hats and start spinning in your computer chair when adding random items you wish to combine in the Mystic Forge for a higher chance of getting a legendary precursor.
 
Tin foil hats? Sounds like a perfect prop for discussing this topic in a future podcast, ;)
 
Apparently a lot of people were running Ascent to Madness in their full MF set instead of their "Berserker Kill Everything Extremely Fast" set while eating peach tarts and using MF boosters for a better chance of getting one of those Halloween Exotics in the chests. If everyone in the party wore a Berserker DPS Gear, they could have easily completed the MK Dungeon in less than 10 minutes per run.

And yes, I was one of those people. Damn you Placebo Effect!
 
I always wear my magic find set, but my build is glass cannon-y so it makes up for it. I consider the trash mob drops valuable so that's where I see the benefit.
 
MFire said:
Apparently a lot of people were running Ascent to Madness in their full MF set instead of their "Berserker Kill Everything Extremely Fast" set while eating peach tarts and using MF boosters for a better chance of getting one of those Halloween Exotics in the chests. If everyone in the party wore a Berserker DPS Gear, they could have easily completed the MK Dungeon in less than 10 minutes per run.

And yes, I was one of those people. Damn you Placebo Effect!
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I wore my Damage gear, hence why our runs were going faster hehe :)

You are a ruthless tinfoil hat wearer!
 
I wear stuff that I loot off corpses that I kill. It's usually kinda messy, has strange non-useful magicks on it like making my warrior's frost effects last longer, and it generally smells kinda funny.

This might explain why I never find anything cool.
 
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