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cloosh
09-06-2006, 20:25
my sorc has only like 50 mf, but when i run andy and meph in nightmare, NOTHING drops except for scrolls and gold. what's going on?!
Paranoide
09-06-2006, 20:31
my sorc has only like 50 mf, but when i run andy and meph in nightmare, NOTHING drops except for scrolls and gold. what's going on?!
Bad luck, maybe? How many runs have you done?

It's not about the MF, or at least, it shouldn't be. MF just increases your chances to get something decent.

Anyway, if it's not bad luck, I'm also wondering what's up. Drops containing ONLY scrolls and gold, so not even some magic of rare items, and that on Nightmare.. Sounds a bit weird.
buttershug
09-06-2006, 20:38
my sorc has only like 50 mf, but when i run andy and meph in nightmare, NOTHING drops except for scrolls and gold. what's going on?!


MF wouldn't help at all with such drops.

MF only increases the odds that a crappy normal will be a crappy magic item or a crappy rare, or a crappy set or a crappy unique.

And since scrolls and gold can't be magic, rare, set, or unique, MF can't boost it's catagory.

MF does not increase your odds of getting something decent. It only increases the odds it will be a higher catagory.

More MF means more Isenharts and less plain breast plates.
Paranoide
09-06-2006, 20:45
It only increases the odds it will be a higher catagory. That's what I meant with 'decent'. :]
Paranoide
09-06-2006, 20:47
By the way, @TS: I just came across someone who did about 100 bossruns before he got his first unique. So - it could be terrible bad luck. Just do more runs.
cloosh
09-06-2006, 20:56
ok, thanks guys!
zebulin
09-06-2006, 21:49
MF wouldn't help at all with such drops.

MF only increases the odds that a crappy normal will be a crappy magic item or a crappy rare, or a crappy set or a crappy unique.

And since scrolls and gold can't be magic, rare, set, or unique, MF can't boost it's catagory.

MF does not increase your odds of getting something decent. It only increases the odds it will be a higher catagory.

More MF means more Isenharts and less plain breast plates.


I suppose this also would mean that if I'm running hell baal for grand charms that I needn't bother increasing my MF if baal is never dropping any normal items for me? Since GC's can only be unique or magic I wonder if they are even effected by mf at all.
Evrae Altana
09-06-2006, 22:54
Since GC's can only be unique or magic I wonder if they are even effected by mf at all.They are. MF checks to see if the GC will become a unique or just another magical one when it drops.
zebulin
09-06-2006, 23:40
They are. MF checks to see if the GC will become a unique or just another magical one when it drops.
so the only consideration you have to give to MF when you're hunting Baal GCs is that if you have very high MF you'll end up with more unwanted gheeds?