Are You A Magic Find Leech in Guild Wars 2?

I have 2 full exotic mf sets on both my chars. Added are the fractal yellow/rare jewelry that give mf + vit + toughness.
I use them all the time without a prob. I dont die more often then others. The only thing i really loose is maybe 50hp, 100 toughness and a couple hundred power. These sets are on my mesmer and ranger. I know others do the same. Just noone tells the other like i never tell anyone i play with in my pugs. I’ve done up to fractal 21 on my ranger and 30 on my mesmer. No problem. Have had great parties with everyone saying gg and being satisfied with the group.

Not saying I am a fan of this proposed system, but what about something like what D3 has in Paragon levels (I think that’s what it is called). Get rid of all MF gear. Once you hit 80, as you keep progressing and dinging 80, it gives you like .5% or 1% MF per ding and caps out eventually at whatever the current max MF you can have on gear is. The more you play, the richer you get.

I do like the group share option too.

Just remove magic find as a stat

yes, blame others for your conundrum over whether to be a mooch or bring something to the group effort.  personal accountability is dead in this day and age.

I hate MF in all games, D3, GW2 etc, First time I seen this in GW2 I was sad. Wish they would remove it, but it’s ingrained now in the game.

I don’t find my performance at all reduced using my MF set.  The rewards are sweet, and I have a non-magic find set if I really feel a need to be protected.

Group magic find sounds like a great boost though!

I like the idea of a stacking MF buff for playing with skill. Perhaps 1 that even shares with the group so a blend of both of Bogotters suggestions.

As for myself, I have too much pride in the way i play mmo’s to undergear myself which may (however insignificantly) burden my group. Just to line my pockets with shineys? Nope too much respect for myself and other players.

So yea maybe ANET does need to address this if it is a problem.

So you are saying that GW2 should become a pure-stat game like World of Warcraft? 
I think they did not implement players inspecting other players or combat stat recording numbers and all the things in WoW that tends to make players very evil toward other players for that reason. Monitoring and worrying about Gear more than Play means that player should honestly go back to a gear-based game like WoW instead of trying to make GW2 exactly like it. 
Then people end up in the endless argument of newer players cannot GET gear because no one will take anyone but the already-geared into dungeons to play with. Worrying too much about how someone else wants to play the game THEY paid for, even when in a party with yourself, is just a negative turn in general instead of enjoying gameplay and encouraging others. 

The author expects everyone to play the game exactly how he wants you to play. Heaven help his dungeon minions that are allowed to join his presence. Does he institute a sword and armor check? 

I am a ranger that runs MF(about +70% before buffs) in PvE, Dungeons and Fractals. There is really no disadvantage to me or the group. My 2 main stats are damage based, but I do lose some survivability.  I do a good job of dodging and staying clear of as much damage as I can while producing a lot of DPS. I would not call this leeching as I am not getting killed very often, therefor not having to waypoint and run back to the encounter.

I would not be opposed to having a more group dynamic MF, but splitting the MF across the group would force me to put the gear in storage as it would be split 5 ways and therefor not worth it.

If they removed MF and increased drop rates, I would be happy as well. I only run MF to help me get more gold(by selling items) and for collecting much needed Fine-Rare Crafting Materials.

Perhaps if players saw a freakin rare or exotic a reasonable amount of times we wouldn’t have such an issue. 

Reasonable being a sweet spot between not too often yet often enough to give players oh, I don’t know….HOPE. 

Pretty simple.  I actually put on the gear at level 80 (traveler’s runes) not knowing what MF even really was to begin the game (I was looking for permanent speed boosts, as my Mesmer is so SLOW and I couldn’t dodge or kite anything in CoF).  

Switched to knight gear, and I actually died more, because sad to say, that 5% speed boost made the difference between me being downed and me being caught in the fire.  So I switched back to my travelers.  I get 50 vitality, and a 5% speed boost, and keep everyone else alive more because i’m faster.  So I get 50% MF?  It’s a crap stat anyway, I did it for the speed boost.  And as a glass cannon, sorry, but if I get hit more than once I’m going down anyway, speed and dodging is my way of damage mitigation (and believe me, it works).  

Would I like it to be implemented group wide?  Sure, that would be nice.  Seeing as how we can’t ninja one another’s loot anyway, this should be an easy fix (don’t make it stack, just have one person designated to wear it).