First off, I want to add my voice concerning how you "got rid of" your occy rings and such -- if you use them EVER, you are not welcome to post here. Period. We don't want to discuss only your "legit" characters here; we don't want to discuss what you do when you don't cheat. It's very simple -- don't cheat, or don't post here.
Secondly, as was already mentioned, you really need to clean up your posts. I understand that you're trying, but consider shorter or simpler posts. No one here is trying to be callous or uncarring -- it's simply that if we can't make out what your posts say, it's very difficult to make any helpful reply.
As for mf'ing, it depends. It depnds on what you want to find, how good your available equipment is to start, on how much time you're willing to spend looking. For meph runs, sorc or barb is almost certainly best -- sorc is faster, but the barb is far more durable, so it's a trade-off whether you can afford to die occasionally or not.
On the other hand, in the "secret" cow level, a javazon is probably the best. Due to the nature of enemies in the cow level, a javazon using LF needs only 2 things -- MF and +skills, and the latter aren't even neccessary. While a hell bovine has a very low chance to drop uniques/sets, there are so darn many of them you'll usually get decent results. As a bonus, you'll net far more charms, gems and jewels (and gold) than in a similar ammount of time spent on meph runs.
<<edit (adding the following paragraph): as for your tests, the distance from the boss has no effect (I think that's what you were talking about, if I'm wrong, forgive me). When the game checks to see the quality of the item, all it knows is what monster was killed, what player killed it, and how much magic find that player had on at the time. What your tests showed is simply that you can kill meph and get 3 blue items and some gold, or you can kill him and get 4 uniques and a set piece. It's the quantity of mf runs that nets good items. >>
As a final note, I wish people would stop trashing the poll option. I'm not saying a poll is usefull as a poll, BUT it can spark discussion just like a regular post. If you don't like the poll option, let the admins know and ignore them at the top of a poll thread.
gekko
Secondly, as was already mentioned, you really need to clean up your posts. I understand that you're trying, but consider shorter or simpler posts. No one here is trying to be callous or uncarring -- it's simply that if we can't make out what your posts say, it's very difficult to make any helpful reply.
As for mf'ing, it depends. It depnds on what you want to find, how good your available equipment is to start, on how much time you're willing to spend looking. For meph runs, sorc or barb is almost certainly best -- sorc is faster, but the barb is far more durable, so it's a trade-off whether you can afford to die occasionally or not.
On the other hand, in the "secret" cow level, a javazon is probably the best. Due to the nature of enemies in the cow level, a javazon using LF needs only 2 things -- MF and +skills, and the latter aren't even neccessary. While a hell bovine has a very low chance to drop uniques/sets, there are so darn many of them you'll usually get decent results. As a bonus, you'll net far more charms, gems and jewels (and gold) than in a similar ammount of time spent on meph runs.
<<edit (adding the following paragraph): as for your tests, the distance from the boss has no effect (I think that's what you were talking about, if I'm wrong, forgive me). When the game checks to see the quality of the item, all it knows is what monster was killed, what player killed it, and how much magic find that player had on at the time. What your tests showed is simply that you can kill meph and get 3 blue items and some gold, or you can kill him and get 4 uniques and a set piece. It's the quantity of mf runs that nets good items. >>
As a final note, I wish people would stop trashing the poll option. I'm not saying a poll is usefull as a poll, BUT it can spark discussion just like a regular post. If you don't like the poll option, let the admins know and ignore them at the top of a poll thread.
gekko
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-Michael Ventura, "Letters@3AM"
-Michael Ventura, "Letters@3AM"