Movie.2943 Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 (edited) Hey All, I just reached 300% Magic Find the other night and now I am wondering what should I do with all future essences of luck it get? https://imgur.com/a/KthgJfy Edited June 4, 2021 by Kira Wei.2361 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrilana.1396 Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Toss it or save it for the vendor during Lunar New Year. I personally just consume them anyway as I can’t be bothered to save them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Malone.5641 Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 If you decide to save it, be sure to consolidate it at an artificer crafting station. This is doable at 0 Artificer crafting skill. Just search for "luck" at the station and the recipes will come up. You can consolidate Fine, Masterwork and Rare essences into Exotic to save room. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias.7561 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 How long did it take you to get to 300% and did you do anything special to get there? I'm just consuming all of the luck that I generate from salvaging and 300% looks like it will take years. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harfang.1507 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, Ozymandias.7561 said: How long did it take you to get to 300% and did you do anything special to get there? I'm just consuming all of the luck that I generate from salvaging and 300% looks like it will take years. Thanks. I have been playing almost daily for three years and I am just past 180% I think. Years, yes, years! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger Ferret.6342 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 31 minutes ago, Ozymandias.7561 said: How long did it take you to get to 300% and did you do anything special to get there? I'm just consuming all of the luck that I generate from salvaging and 300% looks like it will take years. Thanks. I've been playing for about a little under a year. I didn't realize that 300% was obtainable until recently. In the past two months or so, I've gone from 93% to 163% through salvaging everything that drops I don't want to keep. Even though the numbers needed to level your luck keep increasing, the luck you've just gained will improve the drops you get and more valuable chunks of luck being salvaged more frequently, so it doesn't really feel like leveling now takes any longer than it did 50% ago ago. Though ask me again when I hit 263%, and I might feel differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfb.7025 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Ozymandias.7561 said: How long did it take you to get to 300% and did you do anything special to get there? I'm just consuming all of the luck that I generate from salvaging and 300% looks like it will take years. Thanks. It took me a little more than 2 years to get to 300%. There is a way to get Luck really quick, use your mystic stones to craft mystic salvage kits, and salvage stacks of ectoplasms. For a stack you will get around 470 Crystalline Dust, and 30,000 Luck (enough to increase 1% on the latter levels of Luck). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firebeard.1746 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 (edited) On 6/4/2021 at 11:24 AM, Kira Wei.2361 said: Hey All, I just reached 300% Magic Find the other night and now I am wondering what should I do with all future essences of luck it get? https://imgur.com/a/KthgJfy Save it for the new year's festivals. You can directly convert to vendor trash/gold via drooburt or you can buy the lucky bags with it (I actually don't think it's competitive with Drooburt, sadly. They decided to make the 8g ornament more rare than an infusion from those bags. XD. Why they want to reward a clickfest, I do not know.) I'll probably do a combination of both. Quote How long did it take you to get to 300% and did you do anything special to get there? I'm just consuming all of the luck that I generate from salvaging and 300% looks like it will take years. Thanks. You can salvage ectos for luck and it produces Crystalline Dust as a byproduct. I would, about once a week, buy 250 ectos, salvage, and then turn around and sell the dust. I'd only lose a few gold. i think I actually accidentally made gold on it here and there. If you have Mystic Forge stones, use them to make the Mystic Salvage Kits, they'll considerably lower the cost. Also, I used rare salvage kits, but the interwebs tells you to use blue. I think in practice I got more dust that way, so I felt like it was cheaper. I think it took me about a year to max out from 150% doing this. EDIT: I was also still salvaging my own gear and even some of the ectos I got from it to max my MF, so depending on differences in play, your mileage may vary. Edited June 8, 2021 by Firebeard.1746 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firebeard.1746 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 10 hours ago, Harfang.1507 said: I have been playing almost daily for three years and I am just past 180% I think. Years, yes, years! Only if you don't salvage ectos. I had the same issues until I discovered ecto salvaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias.7561 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 10 hours ago, Wolfb.7025 said: It took me a little more than 2 years to get to 300%. There is a way to get Luck really quick, use your mystic stones to craft mystic salvage kits, and salvage stacks of ectoplasms. For a stack you will get around 470 Crystalline Dust, and 30,000 Luck (enough to increase 1% on the latter levels of Luck). So I took your advice, with the following results. I used my mystic forge stones to craft a mystic salvage kit, direct cost around 20 silver. Salvaged the 180 gobs of ecto that I had in the bank for 352 crystalline dust and 18070 luck. Sold the dust to buy another 180 ecto and made 4 gold profit. Went from 134% to 136% for about 5 minutes work. Judging from the reported salvage rates I was probably a bit lucky to make a profit but, in the long run, until I run out of mystic forge stones, it should probably be about cost neutral. According to the tables I should have made it to around 180% by the time I run out of mystic forge stones. It would have cost about 1.5 gold to use 10 master salvage kits instead, so I'll have to keep an eye on the costs to see if I can keep going after that. Still, thank you for a fabulous piece of advice and I'll let you know if I make 200% by the end of the week. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Why in such a hurry it took me around 6 years to finish it and after that nothing much you can do with luck other then delete or store it for lunar newyear npc. Dident ecto salvage at all. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 When you reach 300% magic find are you unable to use luck? Or does it just disappear and not do anything? I've been playing since before luck was introduced and haven't hit max magic find yet, but I'm a little worried that when I do I'll just keep double clicking the luck to use it up, because it's such a habit at this point. I can't remember what my magic find is, I don't think I'm very close but it's just something I've been wondering about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 (edited) As others have said, refine your Luck on Artificer to Exotic and save for Lunar New Year, or donate to guilds that need it since its used for a few upgrades and decorations. As for reaching 300%, you can cap your MF in days if you know how to play the TP. Its all about carefully watching the Glob of Ectoplasm and Pile of Crystalline Dust prices and only buying when you can either make a profit or break even. You can also get massive amounts of luck from the Auric Basin meta every 2 hours, its not uncommon to get 50+ Rares a day if you run it every time its up which adds up to a steadily increasing MF over time. (Keep in mind that I got The Golden Child title before maxing luck this way, but if you're looking for a way to make sure it happens without investing a single copper of your in-game funds and even turn a profit while doing so, this is it.) Keep in mind 300% MF is only about a 30% bonus to loot quality. It gives a huge advantage over newer accounts (far less junk, and far more Rares and Exotics), but it'll never pay for the investment, time or otherwise. Edited June 8, 2021 by Hannelore.8153 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias.7561 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 2 hours ago, Linken.6345 said: Why in such a hurry it took me around 6 years to finish it and after that nothing much you can do with luck other then delete or store it for lunar newyear npc. Dident ecto salvage at all. My theory is this. What I'm really after is gold. I'm really stingy, and I flatly refuse to pay hard cash for gems, so I have to earn as much gold as possible to buy gems to pay for the upgrades and game content that I want. Better Magic Find means better loot (from MF affected drops), which means more gold/hour, which means I might get my Skyscale/full home instance/legendary gear before I get senile dementia and forget why I wanted it in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Hannelore.8153 said: Keep in mind 300% MF is only about a 30% bonus to loot quality. It gives a huge advantage over newer accounts (far less junk, and far more Rares and Exotics), but it'll never pay for the investment, time or otherwise. That's why I've never been in a rush to max it out. It's not worth me buying items to salvage because the benefits are fairly minimal so I'd rather prioritise other things. I could probably have gotten there just from loot drops by now, but I also don't spend much time doing big meta events. (Which is another reason I don't think max magic find is that important for me.) I do use the guild hall boost on a few characters, but only because it doesn't make sense not to take one, since they're free and permanent, and none of the others seemed especially useful for those characters. 1 hour ago, Ozymandias.7561 said: My theory is this. What I'm really after is gold. I'm really stingy, and I flatly refuse to pay hard cash for gems, so I have to earn as much gold as possible to buy gems to pay for the upgrades and game content that I want. Better Magic Find means better loot (from MF affected drops), which means more gold/hour, which means I might get my Skyscale/full home instance/legendary gear before I get senile dementia and forget why I wanted it in the first place. You may be aware of this already but some of your goals seem counter productive with prioritising gold per hour. It will take years to break even on the home instance nodes, if you ever do. They're only really worth having if you like collecting them for their own sake, not to make a profit. Especially since you can go to someone else's home instance and gather from their nodes for free. When I'm in cities I always see people offering free invites to a full or mostly full home. Also once you've got Season 4 unlocked the skyscale does not cost much gold. If you're able to do the jumping puzzles and world bosses yourself instead of paying for treats to skip them and you're able to craft the necessary items it would only cost about 70g in total. (If you do need to buy Season 4 then I'd wait and see if it's included in the Return to Living World event/s Anet are running. They're currently giving away Season 2 and will do Season 3 after that. I'm not sure about 4 and 5 but if they are included that will save you a lot of gold.) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie.2943 Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 23 hours ago, Ozymandias.7561 said: How long did it take you to get to 300% and did you do anything special to get there? I'm just consuming all of the luck that I generate from salvaging and 300% looks like it will take years. Thanks. i just salvaged all the gear I got from the Unidentified blues, greens and yellows. Sorry I didn't track how long it took me. Just been playing casually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echosera.5497 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 I suggest keeping at least 250 Essences of Luck in a bank slot. Further use and also for Lunar New Year exchange thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 On 6/7/2021 at 8:42 PM, Ozymandias.7561 said: How long did it take you to get to 300% and did you do anything special to get there? Lunar New Year. Very simple. 🙂 2 hours ago, jungsowon.2074 said: I suggest keeping at least 250 Essences of Luck in a bank slot. Further use and also for Lunar New Year exchange thing. This. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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