darkewaffle
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- Oct 7, 2005
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Magic find does not mean more loot drops, it means more of the loot you find is magical. It essentially modifies the distribution of rarity.
For instance, if you go on a run with 0% magic find and find 100 pieces of equipment (I don't think MF has any effect on potions/gold), let's say you get 70 grey/white pieces, 20 magic pieces, 9 rares, and 1 legendary.
Now if you were to do that same run with 100% magic find, the distribution would be closer to ~42 white/grey, 40 magic (up 100%), 16 rares (up ~80%), ~1.7 (up ~70%) legendary. Those drop values are highly overstated, but you get the idea.
I would suspect it diminishes though the same way it does in D2, which means your MF% is only 'true' for terms of actual magic find. So if you have 500% magic find you should find 5x as many magic items; however you may only get, say, 300% more rares, 200% more set items, and 150% more legendaries.
Essentially it's a stat for the 'long term' if you will because you have to remember that even if you have an effective 300% increase in legendary drops, that probably still just means you're getting .015 legendaries instead of .005. So you probably won't see immediate returns with the exception of noticing more blues and yellows in all likelihood.
For instance, if you go on a run with 0% magic find and find 100 pieces of equipment (I don't think MF has any effect on potions/gold), let's say you get 70 grey/white pieces, 20 magic pieces, 9 rares, and 1 legendary.
Now if you were to do that same run with 100% magic find, the distribution would be closer to ~42 white/grey, 40 magic (up 100%), 16 rares (up ~80%), ~1.7 (up ~70%) legendary. Those drop values are highly overstated, but you get the idea.
I would suspect it diminishes though the same way it does in D2, which means your MF% is only 'true' for terms of actual magic find. So if you have 500% magic find you should find 5x as many magic items; however you may only get, say, 300% more rares, 200% more set items, and 150% more legendaries.
Essentially it's a stat for the 'long term' if you will because you have to remember that even if you have an effective 300% increase in legendary drops, that probably still just means you're getting .015 legendaries instead of .005. So you probably won't see immediate returns with the exception of noticing more blues and yellows in all likelihood.