Best Mf to Get good Items

[ahayes04]

Ok this is the new poll and the question is: In your opinion how much mf do u think is the best amount to find the best items

[N17R0]

The more the better. Just make sure that the items are pretty decent in other aspects as well (resistances and such) so you can kill the monsters w/ good drops. If you can get 500+% you're in pretty good shape.

[ahayes04]

please answer on the poll, lol i dont wanna read everyones thing to find out i wanna see the percentage, everyone has different opinions i used to have 673 mf but i was told 340 is better so now im tryin 340 for a day or 2, so plz everyone use the poll, thats what its there for

[xRubyWeaponx]

MF doesn't really help, in my opinion. I've never found much with it. Here's my thought, MF=Magic Find but there's no Unique Find. You find better magics though, like Cruel Hydra Bow of Evisceration.

[SanDMaN]

mf doesn't play a big roll in the 1.1 patch between 300-500 is best mf because at some point it rolls over and starts at 1 again while it will show it goin higher on your screen

[A|fzZz]

In the past,298 was considered the best...now the more the better...

[snotling]

Magic find doesn't roll over, its just for example at a magic find of 500 you have a certain percentage to get a unique item certain percentage to find a rare or magic or set or whatever item.

Magic find does not determine the type of item you actually get it only affects the quality. In other words if you get a unique shako, it means that whoever dropped it was already going to drop it but your magic find determines whether its unique, magic, rare or whatever.

Thats why if your magic find is too high it makes it pointless because the chance to get a magic shako far surpasses the chance to find a unique one. So you have to do some reading as to the percentages and try to come up with a figure as close to the ideal as possible.

[dragonXX]

like i said last time the more the better right?

[sAint]

My sorc can have up to 510mf, but recently ive discovered that i find better things more often with 366mf.

[Ravstarr69]

personaly i think for every char its different, some its low mf is better some is mediam and some is high, im useing 575 right now and im finding alot of good stuff in short amounts in time, but thats just my thought, sorry if im rong

[Manasonic]

This one goes out to all my homies in Brouge: the best mf is the best mf you can build while still killing fast. I have a sorc who can use 900+ mf to slay mephy, while my barb uses about 600 mf. The best mf, to be sure, is any mf 300-400+ that kills fast. Don't slow yourself down building the "ultimate" mf char. About 400-600 is great for a sorc, and a bit less for a barb (who switches to ist'd ali babas or mf jewel'd ali's). Hire a merc when a boss is hurting, to save gold on merc, and to boost your mf (if the merc does the killing, you get merc mf+your mf). Mf does not effect rune drops. Unlike what I think someone was saying above, it DOES improve your chances of finding unique items. How? It rolls for: ilvl (item level), tc (treasure class), and QUALITY (that is, what distinguishes elite items from exceptional items). With all of that boosted, you will find many more uniques with mf than without mf. Another thing: mf a lot (wf doesn't drop too often), and mf in the right places (pits/mephy/baal...and pindle if you like spending whole days wondering if he drops good items). It is better, of course, to mf in hell, since hell monsetrs drop better items (higher ilvl, tc, and quality). And don't forget that as mf increases, returns diminish: in English, this means that the higher your mf (especially after like 400-ish) gets, the less your mf gets proportionally (and the math on this shows that the diminishment is pretty strong).

[Exorcise]

MF = Magic Find, so if the higher ur MF is, the higher rate you get magic item... get it?

[dragonXX]

:? i said the more u got the more chance u get stuff

[._| 3 Vv |3]

ok, when u kill a monster, the monster's drop is determined by item type (i.e.- a ballista, a shako, sacred armor, ancient armor, etc...) then is a check on whether the item is magic, rare, or unique... all mf does, is increase the probability of the item being magic, rare, or unique.... it does not make more items drop....

[PanZer]

Two words: Diminishing returns

The higher the better....but not much better the higher you go....Id shoot for 300 or more

[._| 3 Vv |3]

i'd say 350-450 depending on char, tho my fire has 710 w/shit charms.. save 40 gheeds.. so and she makes 35-40 sec meph runs

[Tld(26)]

i have had the best luck on mephisto using 850 mf+ but it seems andy and others take to lower mf better ie:300-400 correct me if im wrong though. i may be cause iv yet to pick up the "big big items" biggfest thing iv pivked up off meph would be arachs web, like 5 ss's so far or like 3 hoz but cant seem to find a gf or fathom.....

but hey what do i know......:p

[._| 3 Vv |3]

arachs isn't bad, although 3 hoz's is nice for meph, i do about 2 hours a meph (on average) a day.. at 50-60 sec runs... haven't found 1 of him yet.. mostly ss and shakos.. god knows how many.. i've had 2 whole mule accounts FULL of items from meph disappear twice... (went out of town and friends didnt' check em for me -_-) and i still have like 8 ss's... lmao.. but i found my 29 fathom off big d.. (not dc)

[Tld(26)]

ya but what setup (ie mf/gear) do u use on ur guy cause that sounds way better than the drops i get and i spent like a long time doing runs

[ballinpakiplaya]

dang man 29 fathoms is a lot of items.... and how do u tele to meph with out dieing when those stygan dolls attack?