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I am also confused how the MF works regarding legendaries as I struggle to get any legendary while i hear other players get 1-2 every so often (i.e every hour???). Is MF capped at 300? So if i get NP 5 at MP2 with base MF200 and MF is subsequently 300 is all I need for maximum legendary drop?
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Any suggestions welcome in how I could optimize my legendary/rare item drop
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MF cap from gear, follower (counts 20%), shrines, paragon is capped at 300.
Add NV5 and monster power => maximum of 625 MF (MP10 NV5 when capped).

1-2 legendaries per hour is a rough AVERAGE if you're MF capped and extremely fast and efficient. "Efficiency" entails a long discussion that you can read in many threads, but essentially you're most efficient on the lowest MP level where you can breeze through mobs and kill everything "almost instantly", i.e., you're not standing for a few seconds and shooting at white mobs. However, it's really just an AVERAGE, which means even extremely efficient farmers have dry spells of many hours without a legendary, and then you might get extremely lucky and get a bunch of legendaries within a few minutes.

With your gear my guess is that MP2 is probably the sweet spot where you're most efficient, but maybe someone who plays DH as a main can specify. Paragon 28 is still quite low. You can compensate by buying MF gear, however, I would recommend to go full DPS and bonus XP. Put a ruby in your helm socket, get a Hellfire Ring and if you have the money a Leoric's Signet (you can also put them on your follower if you don't play in a group). Give your followers amulet, ring, weapon with MF (Grand Vizier on Enchantress, Sunkeeper on Templar plus MF on shield). Try to get to higher paragon levels and you'll find a lot more legendaries. However, even at 60 or 70 you can still have several runs without a legendary - it's really just "an average". Always keep in mind: it's RNG, and RNG can be cruel sometimes.

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To sum 1st question up:

-It increases quality of the drop because whenever an item drops, the system rolls if it's legendary/6-affix rare/5-affix rare/ 4-affix rare/blue. Higher MF leads to higher chance of rare/leg, leads to better drops and therefore "more rares" on average. The amount of drops will be the same (exception: bonus item with monster power), but you'll get more crap like tomes, gold piles, blues etc. and therefore "less items".

-With regard to stat rolls, magic find has no influence when it comes to most drops, with the exception of the extra item from NV5 drops. See magic find thread.

2nd question:

-MP1 and higher makes all monsters level 63, thus all stats can roll up to level 63. However, the roll is still random and magic find has no influence (!) except for the bonus item from NV5 drop (!), again, see magic find thread for details.

-What does MP1+ give you? Well, bonus XP, bonus item, and more magic find. The effect is huge. And making all rolls based on monster level, i.e., level 63, makes all items worthwhile to pick up, because base armor/damage is not that important compared to possible 63 stat rolls.

One could say that MP/MF should also increase the chance for better stat rolls, however, given how many good items are out there and how many legendaries you can get if you farm with maximum efficiency, it would just flood the market even more (and those who struggle because they have low MF/farm speed wouldn't get any benefit, either). It would just widen the gap.