Hey guys I just have a quick question. I am wondering how you guys farm with regards to magic find. Do you guys just swap as much as you can in before you kill and elite/boss or do you guys run in full time magic find set for item farming? I currently have 310% MF in my set but I swap in on kills because the actual set is not very good. Some items are decent but most are just crappy low dex high mf pieces so running full time in it would be hard. I think I only have 9k health in my MF set. I am wondering if I should just keep swapping or if I should try to maybe lower my Magic Find total and just find some better gear with magic find so I can run with it full time. Let me know what you guys think is the best option and what you have had success with.
Hey guys I just have a quick question. I am wondering how you guys farm with regards to magic find. Do you guys just swap as much as you can in before you kill and elite/boss or do you guys run in full time magic find set for item farming? I currently have 310% MF in my set but I swap in on kills because the actual set is not very good. Some items are decent but most are just crappy low dex high mf pieces so running full time in it would be hard. I think I only have 9k health in my MF set. I am wondering if I should just keep swapping or if I should try to maybe lower my Magic Find total and just find some better gear with magic find so I can run with it full time. Let me know what you guys think is the best option and what you have had success with.
They are looking to do some crazy stuff with MF so I would hold out on any expensive purchase. DPS+MF set is a premium that you may not want to invest a whole lot in. With that said, I do have a seperate MF/DPS set that gives me 40k DPS and about 200%+ MF. I mainly use this in ACT I since its a total faceroll.
When I first started playing, I had a MF set with very little DPS, so it was a pain in the ass for that last hit. Than I got a MF/DPS set that was pretty decent, but I found that my DPS potential was capped. This damage went down obviously with the IAS nerf. The most effective way to do is to have your DPS set, and swap to your MF/DPS set for the last few hits. It's a bit dumb gameplay, I manually click gearswap (its actually pretty easy to do), but other people use things like AutoIT to gearswap.
Ok Zealot thanks. Since your mf set is better now do you run in it full time when you are farming act I or do you still gear swap? I am wondering if running in it full time has any benefits such as upping drops from white mobs/item racks or if there really is no difference whether your in it full time or not. Thanks for your help thus far.
Ok Zealot thanks. Since your mf set is better now do you run in it full time when you are farming act I or do you still gear swap? I am wondering if running in it full time has any benefits such as upping drops from white mobs/item racks or if there really is no difference whether your in it full time or not. Thanks for your help thus far.
I run in it full time in ACT I other than for Pony level (5x stack pre Pony lvl+DPS gear). You can find rares and legendaries/set off trash. I've gotten a few off them, but on one hand, I've gotten a few off elite packs and bosses as well.
Swapping is probably best, but I find it cheesy. It will probably get nerfed anyway. Furthermore, no matter your gear, farming act 1 is best for i61-63 rares so it's a moot point.
I've built a perfect MF suit of rares - rares which prioritize the maximum possible MF for that slot (20 for most, 18 for quiver and rings, 40 for amulet). I'm at 34.5k damage (no SS), 29k hp and ~300 resists. I can comfortably farm act 1 or 2 with it, but the damage is just too low for act 3. I could technically get more MF by using the set rings, but in doing so I'd lose a lot of nice stats I have on my max MF rare rings and my goal is to keep the damage and survivability up.
If they reverted the drop rates to 1.02's, I'd probably farm act 3 in my dps suit and swap, as lame as it is. But as it is, I'm raking in the cash by farming act 1, or act 2 when I get bored of act 1.
Originally I just looked for gear with stats and any MF on it. My damage was a bit higher, and the gear cost me a lot less, but I was at around 185 base. Now I'm at 303 base with my templar out (who I also geared up with perfect MF). So if you're looking for a place to start, you can afford a non-perfect MF suit with a focus on dex pretty easily and work your way up from there. In my ~200 hours played, always prioritizing MF once I was lvl 60, I've gotten dozens of rares worth a million or more gold. I no longer AH anything worth less than 500k because my stash would be full of crap to sell due to the 10-item limit. As it is, I have 10 auctions up at all times and usually about 5 items stashed, waiting their turn.
They are looking to do some crazy stuff with MF so I would hold out on any expensive purchase. DPS+MF set is a premium that you may not want to invest a whole lot in. With that said, I do have a seperate MF/DPS set that gives me 40k DPS and about 200%+ MF. I mainly use this in ACT I since its a total faceroll.
When I first started playing, I had a MF set with very little DPS, so it was a pain in the ass for that last hit. Than I got a MF/DPS set that was pretty decent, but I found that my DPS potential was capped. This damage went down obviously with the IAS nerf. The most effective way to do is to have your DPS set, and swap to your MF/DPS set for the last few hits. It's a bit dumb gameplay, I manually click gearswap (its actually pretty easy to do), but other people use things like AutoIT to gearswap.
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http://i.imgur.com/8AfIp.jpg 4/4pc natalyza dps: 73k (w/o ss), dex: 1967, health: 22k, resist: ~150, mf: 90%/261%
I run in it full time in ACT I other than for Pony level (5x stack pre Pony lvl+DPS gear). You can find rares and legendaries/set off trash. I've gotten a few off them, but on one hand, I've gotten a few off elite packs and bosses as well.
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http://i.imgur.com/8AfIp.jpg 4/4pc natalyza dps: 73k (w/o ss), dex: 1967, health: 22k, resist: ~150, mf: 90%/261%
I've built a perfect MF suit of rares - rares which prioritize the maximum possible MF for that slot (20 for most, 18 for quiver and rings, 40 for amulet). I'm at 34.5k damage (no SS), 29k hp and ~300 resists. I can comfortably farm act 1 or 2 with it, but the damage is just too low for act 3. I could technically get more MF by using the set rings, but in doing so I'd lose a lot of nice stats I have on my max MF rare rings and my goal is to keep the damage and survivability up.
If they reverted the drop rates to 1.02's, I'd probably farm act 3 in my dps suit and swap, as lame as it is. But as it is, I'm raking in the cash by farming act 1, or act 2 when I get bored of act 1.
Originally I just looked for gear with stats and any MF on it. My damage was a bit higher, and the gear cost me a lot less, but I was at around 185 base. Now I'm at 303 base with my templar out (who I also geared up with perfect MF). So if you're looking for a place to start, you can afford a non-perfect MF suit with a focus on dex pretty easily and work your way up from there. In my ~200 hours played, always prioritizing MF once I was lvl 60, I've gotten dozens of rares worth a million or more gold. I no longer AH anything worth less than 500k because my stash would be full of crap to sell due to the 10-item limit. As it is, I have 10 auctions up at all times and usually about 5 items stashed, waiting their turn.