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On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:25:51 GMT, "K.os" <K.osNO@SPAMvideotron.ca>
wrote:
>The chance to get magical items is random, and helped by the bonus to
>magic finding. This is not a case where 100% chance to find magic items
>means that everything will drop as unique or set or even magic. It just
>means you have double the existing chance than an item dropped will be
>unique, set, rare or magical. It is all very confusing from a
>common-sense point of view but if you read the following it might help
>unconfuse you.
>
>http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/magic/magicfind.shtml
>
>*-) K.os
Thank you for that link! I didn't make this post, but that actually
educated me with some things I didn't know. Since I don't magic-find
often, I didn't take the time to learn about exactly how it worked...
From the page:
"Will Magic Find work with Minions and Hirelings?
Yes. When you make a kill, you get the Magic Find % of yourself only.
When a Hireling gets a kill, it uses the combined Magic Find of the
Hireling and you."
The Hireling uses combined Magic Find of itself *and* me? That's
interesting... so MF gear I put on my Hireling actually increases its
chance... and if I had a chance as well... if the Hireling makes the
kill, the chance stacks? That's good to know if so... but kills I
make don't include gear for my Hireling, and I don't know if my
Hireling is going to be killing Mephisto or Baal!
It's also useful to know that there's no cap on MF, and that it
doesn't work with gambling...both also things I didn't know before, so
thank you again for the link.
--*Dividedbyzero on USEast