Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[JustAGuy]

If someone is interested enough to actually do the tests, though, they should not assume that everything is working as they think.

I am interested enough to do the tests, and lots of them.

I've already listed how I'm going to do it, but the problem now is time. Real Life™ has decided to make Diablo II play a little less frequent for the moment. With this in mind, I'll do the tests as time presents itself.

The arguments presented in this thread are very convincing. They mainly lean toward the aforementioned MF effect being completely psychological. When I do the runs, I won't be doing them assuming anything; I'll be doing things consistently, and methodically. I'll be cataloguing everything that drops, and I'll leave the data for others to decipher.

So, just as you think this thread is about to die, it'll be back. Muhahah. I started this thread, and I intend to finish it. That doesn't mean I'm biased toward my own opinion of MF decreasing in effectiveness. I am simply trying to uncover the commonly held belief (superstition) that many users hold regarding the quality of drops over time. Be there a mechanism to decrease quality, a problem with the RNG, or a bug we don't know of, or not, I'd like to provide some data that will help put this issue to rest once and for all.