Kasreyn,Jul 27 2004, 10:26 PM Wrote:Hi,I'll just take very quick stabs at the obvious ones here ;) I'm posting mainly to get you to stop wasting money gambling :(
Been a long time since I've posted here, but maybe one or two will remember me.
Playing LoD 1.10 *Open* single player, usually using /players8, so keep those in mind while answering...
Am building (or attempting to build) the stereotypical MF Sorcie, mostly because I want to see for myself if high MF really does have a visible effect. To this end, I have many many (many many!) questions!
3. Is this just a really low amount?
4. People have mentioned an item nicknamed "Gheed's" something or other that reduces vendor cost. What base item type is it and how can it be found?
5. Other MF questions. I saw another post at AB mentioning using MF in Meph runs. This confuses me - I thought the only effect of MF was to ensure that a greater number of drops were magical or better, rather than normal? Well, Meph always drops several magical items, so how could MF help? Does MF improve the chances of the magical items being upgraded to rares, sets, and uniques? If so, how?
6. In general, is it worthwhile for me to bother attempting to gamble stuff like Chance Guards, Skullder's Ire, or Griswold's Valor, given that extremely low 0.02% chance? Someone mentioned that if you just gambled at a low enough level and twinked the gold, you could gamble cheaply, but surely those items require a high enough level to spawn that the gambling costs would be prohibitive. Is it more time-efficient to skip standing by Anya for hours and just go kill things? :P
3. You should see a pretty large improvement with 215% MF, particularly on act bosses. I usually wear as much MF as I can obtain easily while still keeping myself alive and relatively quick at killing (except for boss running, then I load it all on).
4. Gheed's is a unique charm. The best way to find it is to kill things (and wear MF)
5. Your impressions of MF are incorrect. Ignoring the diminishing returns aspect, wearing MF will increase the chances that an item will spawn as a rare, set or unique as well. It's always worked this way, and there are a number of charts which will show percentages (sorry no links, but I'm at work and it shouldn't be hard to find them).
6. No. It is not worthwhile. If you really want those chance guards, wear your 215% MF, and kill things. Gambling is still useful for certain rares (gloves, boots, and jewelry in particular) but getting sets and uniques this way is a thing that went away with the introduction of the expansion pack.
The best way to get MF gear is to wear MF gear. Certainly running bosses like Meph is a very effective way to get many of the not-quite-top-tier uniques. If you run Meph, I guarantee soon you'll have more versions of chance guards than you will keep, for example.
[edit: fixed messed up comment on when good unique gambling went away]