Guild Wars 2 - Mythbusting The Magic Find - How It Actually Works 

I mean it makes sense that magic find only affects the rarity and not the item itself. You cant talk to magic find and say what item you want.

Looking at how these buckets go...we should have exotic unidentified now.

what you've missed to mention in this video, is the emphasis on where does magic find actually taken into account : only killing monsters which means most of the loot in the game: loot bags, event rewards, daily rewards, basically any fix rewards are uneffected by magic find before the update unidentified gear, and some loot bag were affected by mf, but today only a few bags are, mainly from HoT metas, which are few in numbers and drop amount aswell

Loved the graphics, they were really well done!

Thanks for doing this video.... so any changes and modifications to magic find over the years it is nice to see a current video on how it works NOW in the current date as of 4-13-2019 when you did this video. Huge thank you :)

Very nice video. Your explanations are very clear and helpful!

Really cool guide. I don't know how you figured it out but it's really helpful to know how magic find works.

Great heads up about this. I was confused as I'd wager most folks are.

Very good video, all well explained.

Really good guide. I have always though all rolls was itemspecifik. Now knowing its tier based is good to know. Easy to understand imo. Thumb up.

Nice video, clears my questions. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this explanation

Amazing video,Thanks Tekkit for all you do.

Very interesting. Thank you for putting this together. Great work on the graphics.

I enjoyed your accent.

Good explanation!

Good Stuff man. Always wanted to know exactly MF worked!

No precursor-club here.

Wanna thank you for the quality and information you put for us in your videos. Wanted to know what is the Magic Find limit, or recommended number. Asking to know how much is good to invest to keep raising the Magic Finding or not.

If you're on the hunt for precursors like many of the comments made here, the best takeaway from this video is that boosting MF while farming doesn't give you a better chance at a precursor, but rather more chances at a precursor by hitting the exotic table more often.

Thanks for the video! I enjoying playing GW2 and I've been playing since GW1 but this is a classic ArenaNet design - pointlessly complicated mechanics that are so weirdly obtuse players have to rely on videos like this to explain what the heck is going on lol Part of the confusion is the misleading name "Magic Find". Based on this video, it should be called "Rarity Bonus" or something like that. But that would provide information to the players so naturally ArenaNet avoids it like the plague. Like how they insist on calling gear stat combos "Berserker's" or "Zojja" instead of just listing them as something informative like "Pow/Per/Fer" gear. Of course that leads to further issues where ArenaNet should just call "Power" what is is = Damage and "Precision" should be called Crit Chance and Ferocity should be called Crit Damage. But if there's any way they can hide information rather than making is obvious, Anet will do that.

thank you man! such a complex system!

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Tekkit are you going to make a new goldguide anytime soon? Whould be very nice :D

Explanation seemed very thorogh and made sense for a split second as you said it. But like all math, it confused the shit outta me.

i was blind and now i see, tyvm

I'd love spanish subtitles to share it with my taco friends :D

What I don't get is... Do this work in the same way on Halloween Lab? I've find a lot of people that says increasing it while farming lab helps you to get more bags. I suppose it's not worth to use consumables to increase it then, is it? Thanks for your awesome guides and explanations Tekkit. I'm becoming a huge fan of your work. Top-notch sir.

Lovely info.

Thanks for how it works. But this still does not explain how in 6 years of playing I have never had a precursor drop :(

And this is exactly why MF feels so meaningless, because the one roll affected by it, the Bucket-Roll, is nested between the Table-Roll and the Drop-Roll both dampening the effect of it by adding more RNG to the equasion.

I thought I understood this, but our numbers aren't lining up. MF is used to calculate a MF coefficient where : MF coef. = 1 + 1*MF/100% This is then multiplied to the bucket chance%. If the bucket MF is greater than 100, it remains at 100. If I apply this logic to the starting values in your example, I get 100% => 100, 80, 20, 10, 6, 2 200% => 100, 100, 30, 15, 9, 3 1000% => 100, 100, 100, 55, 33, 11 All our numbers agree except the last 3. What am I missing?

Really nice video

Great video! But i assume this works differently in the lab farm, also where did you get this information from ?

Nice to know thanks :)

I reckon the loot system needs a lot of work to make it more interesting. In any case, it seems pretty ridiculous and immersion breaking that the world is jam packed with masterwork armor and weapons, which are practically devoid of any value... and apparently you can walk around with 100s of suits of armor and weapons!? Why don't they just drop stackable skins and salvage items instead? Plus more loot (DIablo style) is not more fun, less loot that is more meaningfull would be way better :).

am I missing something? I'm sitting at 250 plus MF but still got White armor while doing istan domin farming .

Best infos!

yeah that makes sense . i am getting more greens now.

Great MF guide! Like and sub. You have interesting videos about GW2. I use this video for sharing on my channel, for more likes and views. Thank you and have a nice day :)

ty for an explanation. love your accent :) ^_^ btw I'm jelly of your inv. slot bags. How did you get so many ascended bags?

Dude the accent is cool, what is it? (I’m not a stalker) just curious. :)

Wow this was very informative, thanks! Also would this effect for example tequatl or triple trouble ascended drop rates? I kinda always figured they were on a fixed %. Either way sharing the vid, much appreciated!

Ok so how does this work with the new unidentified gear? Because they said magic find is used when the unidentified gear is dropped, but we know the game doesn’t decide weapon or armor until you identify the gear, which you said comes before magic find it calculated. Also, why does unidentified gear have a chance to tier up to a higher rarity once identified if it’s not affected by magic find?

correct to "How it actually works" - youre welcome

Ty, now I know how magic find works! :) A quick question: If you wan't to earn gold whats the best way to handle undefined atm, sell it? Or open it?

good information when we will have gold guides for 2019 after istan hard nerf 😐

one thing i don't have clear, drops on kill are affected or just bags/chests and unidentified?

Magic find temporarily had value when it was applied to opening unidentified gear. Now that it’s been removed... it’s useless once again. It’s pretty depressing opening unid gear now. The results are way worse. 😞

i get everything up till the buckets roll chances are revealed at 2:49. Why is the chance to roll a white bucket 100% chance? Shouldn't it be a smaller value than 100? Shouldn't all the buckets added up equal 100%?

Finally someone who told the same story as me xD

Maybe Im not understanding correctly. When is a good time to use boosters? During play like in SW or when opening the bags?

question what about bag stuff like fratial stuff and raid stuff?

Of course those numbers are far too generous. They're more like in the low 0.0001s

truth is...RNG is pure shit in this game...u can play all day and drop nothing, friend gonna play 1hr/day and he's gonna drop more/better loot on every event without any reason.

28k gold 0_0

Have 280% MF but i still have sometimes white items :X

15000th viewer.

Don't mind me, there's a long rant below. I appreciate the effort you put into this video. However, I'm almost certain that whatever they (the staff) told us about magic find is not entirely true. If it's based on rolling tables (numbers) and the RNG in general is broken, the magic find in itself is broken too. First of all, there seems to be some sort of penalty for getting good drops. There also seems to be some sort of hidden bonus for people who either haven't dropped anything in a long time, or haven't played at all for a while. I admit that I don't have any solid proof, just personal experience. I've played this game for 6 years. The only precursor I dropped was the cheapest possible one (at the time it cost at most 50G), then for years - nothing noticable dropped. I also remember how my friend rolled a precursor on one of her first tries in the mystic forge. The thing is, she was back from a long break and she barely played in the first place. Around 4 years in after thousands of gold thrown into the mystic forge, I managed to roll three precursors in the same month. So either that's a really interesting coincidence, or the RNG is utterly broken and has some type of hidden cooldown. I also have over 300% magic find and I hardly see any difference in the loot I drop. The only noticable one is less white gear than I remembered. Makes me really wonder about why they took out magic find gear out of the game if it was useless in the first place.

hmm, i understand nothing :) i think you should make a video on "most effiencient ways to use mf boosters"

I want to join Tekkit's guild

That accent made me laugh.

Personally im not a fan of this loot system. love gw2 though

Magic find has NO influence on most part of the game. Just check it. And for the small rest maybe it works like you say i actualy dont know.

So like you said outdated and entirely useless nowadays since Unidentified Gear is the main type of getting gear which isn't affected by magic find. Good to know, thx ;)

u should put subtitles bro, i cant understand shit.