A Guide to Stacking Magic Find in Guild Wars 2 

Link to the video opening all your loot?

Thank for this information ^-^

weirdly enough this is more or less how I got my only wupwup weapon chest drop from him years ago :'D returned to the game after a break, stumbled across that worldboss and first time killing it, I got the chest :'D and that was years ago around HoT times. never got another chest from Teq ever after...

As someone who kills that ugly dragon frequently since beta, its really depressing me reading this, because my best drop was an spoon.

My friend has been playing guild wars for 6 years. I had been playing for less than a week. I legit got the hoard box from tequatl before I even unlocked my second specialization slot. My friend resurrected me 5 times during that fight because everything could 1 shot me. A few weeks later once I hit level 80 I started doing fractals with said friend and got 3 ascended rings in the first hour. He refuses to play with me anymore.

Interesting, i play game 4 years now, 2 of that with Expansions and got several ascended loots from Teq. I think 5, 6 or 7 Ascended Weapons Chests. One i got even from Svanir World Boss. I have now araund 250% Luckines!😁🐣😁

I just stopped doing tequatl after 100 tries, never even got the spoon.

Isn't the buff even for a minute? In this case you could open much more bags at once

@@DreiSchwerterZorro Wiki says one second.

@@DreiSchwerterZorro Yeah, it's just one second. You can also watch your MF counter in the heros panel, which spikes up for a second when opening a bag.

I'm dying for it

Hahaha

Really? I was always told it would cost a thousand gold in ectos to do it Also, is it a viable way of farming excess luck for wintersday envelopes?

@@TheLitehero Well it's simple. By salvaging Ectos you get crystalline Dust which sells for the same prices of Ectos (price may vary), but isn't big difference. Sometimes you actually make profit. Btw always buy ectos as order, not directly. From one full stack of Ecots you may get up to 300+ Crystalline Dusts which you should sell, not keep if you want to do this trick. It's an infinite loop and you rotate the gold by doing this simple method. Buy ecto - Salvage ecto - Sell the dust. Repeat until you're cap. You get your gold back as you sell the dust. Only works with Mystic Kit, or SIlver-Fed as they have 25% of getting rare mats. Obviously Mystic doesn't cost any money to Salvage as they are craftable.

Yoooo, this actually works, you're a genius. LOL

Any idea how many stacks of ectos you had to get to make this work?

@@TheLitehero A lot. Probably over 500+ (stacks, not ectos). But you barely lose gold, if you follow this trick. Best works if you do this each day like 100 stacks per day - no more as you will reduce the prices of Crystalline Dust. Also depending how much you got. If you have like 50% MF, it's like 1k stacks of ectos, possibly more.

Sorry, the "magic-bonus affects loot" rather

Yes it would work as it fills the same slot, and so they don't stack : you can only equip one of two.

There are a handful of weird exceptions to what's affected by Magic find, but the Exalted Chests under Tarir are not one of them. You can see for a moment at 1:41 that the HoT loot bags that Mukluk opens specifically state "Affected by magic-find bonuses". The is the same description that's listed on Lucky Red Envelopes. The only containers that are affected by Magic Find that don't specifically say so the loot boxes from PvP/WvW Reward Tracks -- the one that Muk points out at 0:22.

@@Wintersaga13 Thanks for pointing that brief shot of the tooltip out. I thought that it had been accepted that the items from Lunar New Year were the only items that entered your inventory that were affected by Magic Find. I scrutinized the wiki but the wording it uses isn't very clear.

while the enrichment and the guild buff, in addition to basic account magic find, are the only truly permanent buffs - there are other sources you can have active quite often. there are different food and utility buff items which can give magic find in different intensitys and not all of them need you to have a buff active. some might be relatively cheap to attain, which includes festival food that you get in loads during halloween and wintersday for example - assuming you open festival bags and dont sell them, which can last for quite a while before you run out of items. when participating in bigger event with lots of people you can always have a look around near the start, quite often someone will place different banners and sometimes food for everyone there. I would always grab at least the banners in those ocasion. be aware that using a banner while having its buff already active will refresh the buff duration - so no need to wait for things to run out before touching another banner. even if not, banners can be obtained from guild merchants for some gold and commendation, so if you are doing weekly guildmissions you can regulary get some for yourself. if you log in regulary and only play 1 character for the most part, you might also have a decent amount of celeration boosters from login reqrds so you can have those up more often. it mostly comes down to how frequently you want to have how many buffs active and how much you are willing to spend on them - or how much you have stacked up over time. lastly if you got a character with lots of buffs and log out, those buffs will not tick down while you are not playing that character. use that to your advantage to save magic find, karma or any similar buff for later. (also some game areas can remove buffs on entereing, like super adventure box, though they should all put out a warning before you go in make sure not to accidently delete valuable ongoing buffs)

@@GaruruMoon I think you might've misunderstood the question (or I am not understanding your answer). The question was "In daily play, is it the best idea to keep the magic find enrichment and guild upgrades on me 24/7 or should i use something else and only swap to magic find when opening chests?"

@@rinder5 I did take it more as a general magic find question but putting it that way I suppose I missed the mark here. I am unsure as to what the "best" choice is. personally I just go with what I am most ineterested in gaining in a given time period.

yes

No

More magic find does help with killing mobs, but I chose to simply use it for the build up collection of containers to get more "bang for my buck"

Didn't forget, I just don't think its practical to try and abuse it. But yes, this is true.

@@MuklukRU-vid XD

Yerp

You're doing good for f2p.

As someone who has been playing GW2 since a couple months after initial launch, I have to strongly disagree. My magic find now (around 250) regularly gets me rare and exotic gear when identifying "unidentified" green/mastercraft gear, and that never happened years ago, when my magic find was very low. I also sometimes get rare or exotic gear from killing trash mobs, which never happened before.

@@traveling.down.the.road56 no it does not work. Its only there to give a sense of progression, nothing more

@@ThePunisher-si8ex where’s your proof? Just claiming that MF doesn’t work without any proof after I gave you my examples that it does work, tells us nothing.

​@@ThePunisher-si8ex We know it works and the scale is linear.