How to improve Magic Finding odds?

[kandrathe]

I sometimes MF as you do, sweeping various good droppers rather than go for lots of games. I mostly use one of my oldest characters, Diana, a lvl 88 Buriza using multi-zon. I've never traded for any of this equipment, just improved on it as I have found it. I do MF, because I hate trading yet, I would like to at least see some of the cool items in the game in my lifetime. I look at it as kind of adding the frosting to completed characters.

I found a Stealskull, then socketed it w/P topaz, along time ago and that has been her most stable piece of equipment(61%). Recently upgraded her lower level 4Ptopaz armor to a 4 socketed Archon Plate I found (96%). She wears 2xNagels (2x28%), and a Amulet of Luck (29%), Goldwrap (30%) and Chance Guards (40%). I've no good MF boots for her, so she wears Rite of Passage. For charms 3x7%, 5x5%. So her MF is, 61+96+56+29+30+40+46=358. So no resists, or defense and, nothing that special.

I opt to carry poison damage charms, (890 over 46 seconds, 19.35/sec).

Some of the most coveted stuff (elite unique armor, most elite unique weapons), I've not found yet. But some I have. I don't do enough of it to yield that much, but every once in awhile I'm pleasantly surprised. Last weekend I found a Homonculous, which rounds out my high level poison and bone skills necro nicely.