Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[Ruvanal]

Here's the order I will follow:
1. Character that has not completed act 3 will create game.
2. Sorceress and Hammerdin will join game (the other character will vamoose).
3. Sorceress will find Mephisto
4. Hammerdin will kill him.
5. Write down all results (this is where two computers really helps, spreadsheet on one, diablo on the other)
6. Repeat

This will result in the drops using the non-quest drops of Mephisto. No different than if you had created the game with the Sorceress or Hammerdin. Is this what you are really trying to check?

Getting the quest drop is based on the quest state of the character that is killing the monster in question, not on the quest state of the character that made the game. To get a consistent run of quest drops from Mephisto, you would want to:

1. Character that has not completed act 3 will create game. i.e. probably the Sorceress
2. The character that has not killed Mephisto for quest credit will join the game.
3. Sorceress will find Mephisto
4. "The character that has not killed Mephisto for quest credit" will kill him.
5. Write down all results (this is where two computers really helps, spreadsheet on one, diablo on the other)
6. Repeat

The above will end yielding the quest quality drops. Since the game will not allow the credit to be given for killing Mephisto (due to the Sorceress making the game), the "new" character will be able to repeat the above time after time. Since the "new" character has its quest state for doing the killing of Mephisto in the uncompleted state the game will use this flag condition to determine that it should drop using the quest quality drop TC instead of the normal TC.


Based on these last responses of JustAGuy and MEAT, it looks like both were basing their claims on misunderstood information as to which TC is getting used under different conditions and just how the game handles determining the magical quality of the items (in particular that a failed set item is dropped as a x2 durability magic item).

Any others consider this 'Myth Busted'?
I do.