In Guild Wars 2, enemies drop pieces of armor you can wear. The further you get, the higher level the dropped armor will have. But from where (or which locations) do the enemies start dropping pieces of armor with the max stat?
Max stat armor drop location
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The Guild Wars 2 wiki states that Magic find is an attribute which increases a players chance to receive rare loot from drops, which would indicate that the quality of the drops increases, rather than the number of drops. This forum thread on Guild Wars 2 Guru again indicates that it is the quality of the items that increases, rather than the number of drops.
In addition to increasing the quality of drops, it will also effect getting crafting materials.
The current common belief is that all of your bonuses to magic find are additive and is used as a modifier value. So for example, if you have two bonuses of 50% magic find, you will end up with 100% total magic find.
If a mob had a 5% to drop a ‘fine’ quality crafting ingredient or piece of equipment that chance would be increased by the value of your magic find (100%) to 10%.
The easiest and cheapest way is to buy/make magic find food, but it is also possible to get magic find items, upgrades, and runes.
Good food to eat in order to increase your magic find is the Omnomberry Bar or Chocolate Omnomberry Cream. Chocolate Omnomberry Cream provides a 40% magic find bonus but for farming in general it would be better to use Omnomberry Bars as this also provides a +Gold find bonus, in addition to some experience.
I'm not exactly sure what you're counting as rewarding (Only tangible objects? Achievements? Gold?), so I'll try to cover everything.
Pretty much the best use for excess candy corn is to give it to the kids dressed up in costumes in Lion's Arch. You can give increments of 10 (1 bag), 20 (3 bags), and 50 candy corn (8 bags) in order to receive Personalized Trick or Treat bags.
Personalized Trick-or-Treat bags have a higher chance to drop the rare salvage items that you need (Plastic Fangs/Nougat Centers/Chattering Skulls). You need these in order to create the recipes for the Gifts (Gift of Spiders/Gift of Souls/Gift of the Moon) that are required for the 3 craftable Halloween weapons, Arachnophobia, The Crossing, and The Mad Moon.
Note that only the recipe to make the Gifts requires Candy Corn, not the actual recipes for the Gifts themselves. For example, you need 250 CC+100 Nougat Centers+40 Bottles of Elonian Wine+10 Piles of Crystalline Dust to create the Artificer recipe for the Gift of Souls. However, the Gift of Souls itself is made up of non-Halloween items (Gift of Knowledge+250 Orichalcum Ingots+20 Globs of Ecto+100 Crystal Lodestones),
which means that after you acquire the Recipe, that's all you have to worry about in regards to time-sensitive Halloween resources. I forgot that you do need to have 20 Superior Sigils of the Night for crafting any single one of these weapons (just not the Gifts), so you would also have to have a store of 2,000 CC in order to craft one of these weapons after Halloween.However, like many Exotics, the requirements for these weapons are a bit steep in regards to both gold cost and/or time needed to spend farming for items, so you may wish to forego them and simply flip the rare items on the Trading Post.
Eating 150 pieces will also go towards netting you the October Monthly Achievement, which will net you 20 Mystic Coins and 10 Jugs of Liquid Karma (you'll still have to fulfill the other requirements for the monthly). In addition, these bags will also count towards the number of Trick-or-Treat bags opened for the Special Event achievement "Trick or Treat bags opened".
And of course, you can also hang onto it and hope that after the event ends, the demand for Candy Corn (and other Halloween-related rewards) will rise after the source of the supply has disappeared and try to flip it on the Trading Post for gold.
The other rare skins available in this event only drop from Black Lion Chests/Mad King Chests, so your candy corn won't increase your chance to get those.
Note that the prices for the Gifts fluctuate. Keep an eye out for the 10g mark, which is cheaper than the materials cost of the non-fluctuating vendor items (40x Bottles of Elonian Wine) required to craft the Gifts, so it may be more worth your while to outright buy them if you want to eventually craft them.
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You find max level armor in the max level zones...
That would be the Cursed Shore and Malchor's Leap at the southern end of Orr, Southsun Cove (take the boat from Lion's Arch), and Frostgorge Sound (in the far north).
... and everywhere else.
You can get max level armor in any zone once you're at or near max level (say, 78+). When you fight in areas where you're sidekicked to a lower level, enemies will mostly drop gear appropriate to their level, but will occasionally drop gear appropriate to your true level. Thus, level 80 armor can drop anywhere once you're at or near level 80, though you'll find the drop rate is higher in actual level 80 zones.
But what you're really looking for is exotic level 80 armor.
GW2 armor, as well as having level requirements, also has quality tiers. The tiers are, from lowest to highest:
You can ignore legendary & ascended; legendary quality is for weapons only, and they can only be made by crafting & combining huge quantities of rare components, while ascended quality is only for jewelry, and only acquired with fractal relics from Fractals of the Mists and with laurels from completing daily & monthly categories. Neither of these quality tiers ever just "drops", and they're not available for armor regardless.
Exotic quality equipment, however, does drop. The most reliable way to acquire exotic gear is to get it from bonus chests. When you complete certain events with a character of at least level 40, you get a bonus chest that is guaranteed to contain an item of at least rare quality, though you can only get a bonus chest once per day per event per account. So once you get a bonus chest from event X, you can't get it again from event X on any of your characters until the daily reset, though you can get bonus chests from other events.
Most events do not give a bonus chest; primarily bonus chests are given from world bosses (Shadow Behemoth, the Fire Elemental boss at Thaumanova Reactor, the Dragon lieutenants) and the temple events in Orr.
Besides bonus chests, exotic armor can be acquired by doing dungeons (you can trade in the tokens you get for doing explorable mode) as well as from certain karma vendors in Orr (albeit for astronomical amounts of karma).