Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

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5.) Now your ready to MF and not a second too soon (our hour is almost up).  With ZERO MAGIC FIND, have said friend make a Normal game (he must of already killed Baal) and kill all the minons to save you some time.  Now you jump in to kill Baal and reap the rewards of uniques and sets with your ZERO MAGIC FIND.

6.) Repeat the proccess over and over.  Watch as your drops start slowly getting worse and worse.

7.) Go ahead and make a new character and repeat the proccess to prove it's not an anomoly. I'll be waiting for you.

And as I had said in an earlier post here, "If you have not documented a pattern that can be consistently repeated to occur, then you really have not made a case for your argument in the first place." How about a listing of what items are dropped, their magical quality (and taking note of if they are failed uniques and set as LiquidDamage has described since few ever take that factor into account) and also note any 'junk' items that you may get in detail also. And explain in better detail as to what you are meaning by "drops start slowly getting worse and worse" since not everyone will have the same personal definition of what this would mean in context of a progressive series of drops.

Hi,

I did the same testing:
- create a game with a character that has killed Baal
- kill it with an other character that has not yet kill Ball

Miscellaneous:
- MF is 4xx
- This characters has already done numerous runs of this type
- when Baal is spawned, it is killed right away without town return (to avoid "Bishibosh bug")

Currently, it happens that "normal" TC (under TC33) are rolled some times. It is not bad, it is just luck to get a good TC. So it does not matter. However, I did notice that magical only drops seem to appear more when the lowest TCs items drops. This point is probably due to a psychological issue as mentionned earlier in this thread.
But, it appears that almost 50% of the time (on a basis of the last 30 hell baal kills) I get some magical only items.
I did believe that the "first kill drop" should have applied every time. The character has not claimed the quest. It should be rares at the minimum.

How can you explained the fact to get blue stuff instead of yellow ones?

I am a little bit disappointed and wondering what I missed :(

Have a good day,

PS: having gold or potion or scroll does not make me wondering, I understand these drops.