A Guide to Stacking Magic Find in Guild Wars 2

With the release of End of Dragons magic find now has a hard cap of 750%, so don't worry about trying to stack it higher than that.

Thanks so much, opening 1200 rare gears today and just wanted to be sure lol

communal bonfire?

All your GW2 content is amazing. Thx for the hard work that helps casuals like myself.

does it boost salvaging results?

Does Magic Find work on the Griffon mastery race reward boxes? I've been trying to get the Mini Griffon pet from it, is why I ask.

What if create more alt and finish their story for keys and used black lion chest instead? should I get good loots from the black lion? but still "Random is random" haha,

Sadly anet decided to remove any buff food from ToT bags. As a result, Halloween oils are ridiculously expensive now. It's not worth buying them, IMO. Especially not for frequent or daily use.

does the communal boon fire buff overwrite or stack with those mentioned here?

"Random is random" summs it up perfectly. I never really bother with magic find except having the 20% enrichment in my amulet and consuming luck but still I had 4 precursors drop for me so far.
2 within 14 days of each other...

What this proved to me, and what I always suspected, is that magic find is pretty much useless.

Does the Guardian Aegis count as boon for the food?

So basically every time the markets tank, its coz you finally decided to open all your loot and dump it.

Great guide Muk, I think that it’s long overdue, so thanks for providing another quick and to the point guide that’s really helpful to many players.

Hi Mukluk, I believe you may be incorrect about Magic Find working on Heart of Thorns containers in your inventory. I believe that what the wiki means is the caches (Exalted Chests) that you open under Tarir after the Meta is over. This would be similar to the Bandit Chests that you find on the ground in Silverwastes that are also affected by Magic Find. "Loot Box" is a common term for the loot dropped by mobs, not actual bags / chests in your inventory. The wiki is pretty clear that the only things in your inventory that are affected by Magic Find are the Divine Lucky Envelopes and Lucky Red Bags during Lunar New Year.

Oh wow. He's me as a casual F2P player thinking my 53% Magic Find was quite good..... :(

If I'm not wrong with 1k magic find you should earn double the gold or something like that

i normaly use a lot of buffs to open all the envelops I got during lunar new year, but still only get at half what you get... the account base luck gets grindier at every level you pass.

My base magic find is 288 right now with 19 more from achievements : 307. With all the boost you mentioned and a campfire I boosted myself to like 791, but the one thing I did not know, that I learned from you today (that my wife NOW tells me she always knew, Pffftt!) is the bonus from the Silverwastes. I'll have to try that next time I open, thanks man!

The higher your magic find the higher the chance a new player will get Chak Infusion.

So magic find boosters are not needed during farming... Higher magic find percentage is only needed during the opening of the items? It's that correct?

Tldr magic find doesnt work

You can even get additional 150% MF in the silver wastes. The "Perseverance" buff says "Bonus is momentarily doubled when opening Lost Bandit Chests.". So the second you open a bandit chest, you get 300% MF from the 5 Stacks. If course it's a hustle to split all the stacks in stacks of 10 or so, find a chest, open it and the second it openes click "Use All" on a stack of 10 and repeat. But yeah, it is possible ^^

But what if I’m impatient and lack bag space… so I open everything! Everywhere!

dam, 935% magic find. Thats nuts

This was a really valuable video, thanks! The wiki is a great resource, but sometimes it is still too easy to miss out on important points, like the SW buff being 100%+

Reaching 1000% guarantees junk not dropping, giving you more chances at loot per bag opening. Which is why they removed the ability to get one of those specific mf buffs.

I first read the title as a guide to stacking and I was 100% ready for a video of you going: "STAND. CLOSE. TOGETHER."
and then just ending the video

You forget Perseverance Bonus is momentarily doubled when opening Lost Bandit Chests.

Are the permanent magic find buffs from the guild & enrichment on the amulet "BiS" or are there better options for day to day play?
& thanks for the guide!

You also get a MF buff for like 1 second after opening a chest on silverwastes, some people like to stack everything and open the chests as they are running on the chest train

I'm watching all this preparation and all I can think about is Goku's THIS IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND

Actually Muk, you can easily reach the cap assuming you have the gold, about 150g will suffice, and you don't need tons of gold for that. If you have the shards from achievements you turn them into mystic kits and with them you salvage ectos and the stuff you get you sell back at the TP. Depending on the prices, you can actually get some minor profit, "minor", because it depends from the prices. I capped my MF with this method "took me a day" since I returned to the game. It's really easy and handy method with some minor loses, but it has to be Mystic Kit in order to work well, otherwise you will end up losing gold. Doesn't work well with copper-fed one since the luck is quite low, and you get little in return.

Good guide. Thanks.

The best magic find boost is being new to the game and have a friend take you to tequatl, after explaining how he has killed tequatl everyday for years and never dropped the Tequatl's hoard exclusive weapon box, you will get an infinite amount of magic find and have a 101% chance of looting said weapon box on your first try and then get a 200% chance of that friend never speaking to you again.

That's informative.. Need to upgrade my inventory space to do something like this..

I'm sure if you pet a black charr 3 time on a full moon day will give another 1000% magick find boost

All that Magic Find, but you couldn't find that last Lost Badge, could you?