Sirian's First Impression

[Ruvanal]

Now if the game is such that you can just stack magic find and stomp through all the difficulties without worrying about your other stats then that isn't an issue with magic find, but with the difficulty balance the developers have given it. The talk seems to be that some difficulties in D3 will be very tough though. The developers have said "You will die" right? So how do you balance the fact that you will die with finding room to fit magic find on your gear? I think that will be quite enjoyable to find out.

This reminded me that the attribute 'gold find' is on gear also. In D2 this was a pretty much worthless stat since the gold itself was only of minimal value to 95+% of the players (minor amount needed for any repairs). In D3 the gold is not something that is easily lost in piles when you die like in D2 and the repairs can escalate up quite a bit. There are also some fairly large sinks for the gold that have you wanting quite a lot of it. These are things like upgrading your vendors for being able to make better quality items for you and increasing the size of your shared stash (50k to 100k and up as you increase its size).

The developers/testers commented that in one of their posts of test the inferno difficulty that they were really desiring that they could afford to have some 'gold find' on the gear and not caring if they had any 'magic find'. The repair costs were cutting into them fairly hard at that point in their progression and they would likely have to swap in some gold find gear and go back to some easier content to farm up some more gold so that they could afford to go back to inferno progression.

So to me, this fits in with what Swirly is talking about here, you will likely need to set some different gear sets up for yourself for the later difficulties so that you can do your progress. I could easily see that each toon may have a prime DPS gear set for advancement and possibly some 'magic find' and 'gold find' gear that several of their toons could swat to from the shared stash when they need to work at building up their resources (the vendors breakdown stuff like magic items to get the materials for making their wares, so even the junky magic items have value).