11-10-2003, 03:14 PM
So far I've tried and/or seen the following magic finding area/strats and experienced the following (FYI I've got about 450 magic find on my 78 MF barb)
1) Normal/NM baal
Takes a while to get through minions and I didn't find his drops as good as the NM Council
2) NM Council
So far this is my favorite place to MF, although it doesn't allow for high end elite uniques :(
3) NM Meph
In my experience not worth the trouble compared to Council, although every so often he'll drop well.
4) NM Countess (more or less for runes)
If ya want runes, I've gotten up to a hel off of her so far. I mainly do her and the NM trav
5) Doing group hell boss runs and attemping to gank the drops.
I've never done this as I find it quite... innappropriate, too many draw backs as well (large group fighting for drops, seeing a good drop and not getting it etc)
6) NM/Hell Eldrich/Shenk
Again i don't find these 2 guys as good for drops as the NM Council, however they may be able to drop higher items then the Council
7) Doing group runs in hell and hanging back with an item find barb
The payout is way too low since there's usually a necro/assassin/cold sorc who all make corpses unavailabe for item find (cold sorcs shatter corpses). Only decent thing I've found this way is a Gheeds charm (which is helpful for gambling jewelry cheaper though)
So, anyone elsebeen magic finding a lot? comments? Find any other good places to Magic find? I tried soloing some places in hell but I keep getting my behind handed to me on a royal platter :/
1) Normal/NM baal
Takes a while to get through minions and I didn't find his drops as good as the NM Council
2) NM Council
So far this is my favorite place to MF, although it doesn't allow for high end elite uniques :(
3) NM Meph
In my experience not worth the trouble compared to Council, although every so often he'll drop well.
4) NM Countess (more or less for runes)
If ya want runes, I've gotten up to a hel off of her so far. I mainly do her and the NM trav
5) Doing group hell boss runs and attemping to gank the drops.
I've never done this as I find it quite... innappropriate, too many draw backs as well (large group fighting for drops, seeing a good drop and not getting it etc)
6) NM/Hell Eldrich/Shenk
Again i don't find these 2 guys as good for drops as the NM Council, however they may be able to drop higher items then the Council
7) Doing group runs in hell and hanging back with an item find barb
The payout is way too low since there's usually a necro/assassin/cold sorc who all make corpses unavailabe for item find (cold sorcs shatter corpses). Only decent thing I've found this way is a Gheeds charm (which is helpful for gambling jewelry cheaper though)
So, anyone elsebeen magic finding a lot? comments? Find any other good places to Magic find? I tried soloing some places in hell but I keep getting my behind handed to me on a royal platter :/
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