Diablo III - General Discussion Thread

[MOnk]

I also picked up my first legendary last night. The sucky thing is that the rare weapon I had does more damage. I'm using the legendary though for a while just because it's my first one.

That's unfortunately the case for many Legendaries, their stats just aren't good enough in far too many cases. I've picked up four, only used one since the other three were 10-15 levels below my current level, even though they were weapons for my class. Also like you said, when you compare them to half decent Rares they often come out the losers.

[Crzwaco]

What is it with the magic find. I have 41% and I pick up only a few rares and my friends non. Then got new gear and went down to 16% and my rare finding was insane I get 2 or 3 drops from an elite where is where Isengard has 51-61% magic find but he gets nothing.

[Glordit]

That's unfortunately the case for many Legendaries, their stats just aren't good enough in far too many cases. I've picked up four, only used one since the other three were 10-15 levels below my current level, even though they were weapons for my class. Also like you said, when you compare them to half decent Rares they often come out the losers.

Got to hate loot randomization sometimes

[Shrike]

What is it with the magic find. I have 41% and I pick up only a few rares and my friends non. Then got new gear and went down to 16% and my rare finding was insane I get 2 or 3 drops from an elite where is where Isengard has 51-61% magic find but he gets nothing.

Well, remember the percentage on magic find is NOT the percentage to find a magic item, it is the percentage increase on an existing percentage. Let us say you have a 1% chance of finding a rare from an elite. Having a total of a 100% increase with items equals a total of 2% chance to find that rare.

As you can see, not a lot ;-P

[Avatar]

What is it with the magic find. I have 41% and I pick up only a few rares and my friends non. Then got new gear and went down to 16% and my rare finding was insane I get 2 or 3 drops from an elite where is where Isengard has 51-61% magic find but he gets nothing.

Besides Shrike's advice, remember that the magic find is averaged over the party; so if your teammates have no MF equipped, you'll have a real +MF of around 10% rather than the 41%. In other words, when hunting gear, your whole team should be wearing their MF suits.

[Wyzak]

Besides Shrike's advice, remember that the magic find is averaged over the party; so if your teammates have no MF equipped, you'll have a real +MF of around 10% rather than the 41%. In other words, when hunting gear, your whole team should be wearing their MF suits.

We debated that point quite a bit over the weekend. I was running around stacking magic find and the other two guys weren't. My magic find was about +70% when we stopped playing. But I would always be the first to call a town-stop. Whenever my inventory was completely full of blues and yellow my teammates inventories were only about half to two-thirds full. This happened every time, without failure. If the magic find was perfectly shared between all parties this shouldn't have been the case.

[_Caboose_]

RIP my level 32 HC DH

You will be missed.

Time for v2

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We debated that point quite a bit over the weekend. I was running around stacking magic find and the other two guys weren't. My magic find was about +70% when we stopped playing. But I would always be the first to call a town-stop. Whenever my inventory was completely full of blues and yellow my teammates inventories were only about half to two-thirds full. This happened every time, without failure. If the magic find was perfectly shared between all parties this shouldn't have been the case.

Unless your base MF (i.e. before item's MF bonus is applied) is higher than your teamie's.. It is quite possible that weighted averages are used, I think we'll only know for sure in 2-3 weeks when proper theorycrafting has been finished.

[PaPaRaZZ!]

RIP my level 32 HC DH

You will be missed.

Time for v2

Jy begrafnis gehou ?

[Dragonic]

RIP my level 32 HC DH

You will be missed.

Time for v2

Ooouch, must've raged lol. Which brings me to a question. Your items you had on your char, what happens to them?

Also, Nightmare, Act2... Wizard.... OUCH! If I see a yellow I cry... NEED BETTER ITEMS!