Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[Taem]

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.

I really don't know. It has worked for me in the past for my last seven characters, but perhaps I am wrong, in which case I concede it may be psychological. I will, however, use this method, as it has thus far yielded fantastic drops for me with zero mf, which allows me to equip better resist items for my hardcore characters.

I do not deny, however, getting blue on more than one occassion which I attributed to a decreasing MF rate since my first few drops seem to always be great (may be failed uniques/sets?).

I would like to mention that you say the first actual quest kill of the boss yields only rares or better, yet I seem to recall seeing blue plenty of times on my quest kills (perhaps a figment of my imagination from all this MF psycho-babble? I wouldn't deny wanting it to be true so unconsciously convincing myself that is what I really saw). Are you sure this is accurate? Until I record some actual drops on paper however, I'll just shut up for now and assume its all in my head :blink: .