Sirian's First Impression

[NuurAbSaal]

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

Any particular reason why one farming toon wouldn't be enough? Can't you transfer gold among your characters?

take care
Tarabulus

No need to swap, there is only one gold stock per account. The later area will drop the better items for destructing into mats and their base gold drop will also be higher so the 'farming toons' would also need to be up near the point where your lead characters would be at. But that is why I was listing it as 1 DPS per toon and a shared set of MF and GF gear that any of your toons might take advantage of as desired.

Thanks for clearing that up, reading it in your post I remembered about the shared bank (gold). And of course I didn't think about the different levels of materials either. Good job making me look like a doofus, brain!

Minor relevant contribution: I generally enjoyed the Magic Find aspect of D2. For me it was just one more thing to do besides progressing through the game with different characters and generally killing stuff. If memory serves I never got my MF above something like 300%, it really was more of a pastime, where the odd really good item would be that much more appreciated by the lucky alts that got them.

take care
Tarabulus