Some good barbarian news and a question about 'horking'

[Svalin]

Hey everyone,

A friend of mine and me are setting up a fansite for barbarians, at the moment we are busy with member/character profiles/skill calculator and i'm busy writing guides and collecting runes for some contests (also guide based probably).

Now for my question, according to arreat summit:

When Find Item is used on a corpse, it gives an X% chance of doing a drop as if you had killed the monster normally. The same treasure classes will be used, but the chance of a successful drop is determined by the level of Find Item, not by the number of players in game.

Now I am wondering how does this affect find item per level. I was planning to have ali baba + heart carver switch. But I wonder how the level affects this? (All the guides talk about maxing it) so is there a hard cap? And is there a chart (For example level 20 'find item' equals a player 8 game). If something like that doesn't exist maybe so veteran horkers can share their experience with different levels of 'find item' vs. monster drops.

Any help will be great, will post here when our barbarian project is done :)

Cheers, Svalin

[AlexanderM]

Arreat is pretty cut and dry on the matter, the number of players in the game stops mattering when you use find item, and the level of find item is what determines the % chance for items to drop. Arreat has a table showing which level of FI = What %. I've never leveled it past about 8 or 9 as it's 1% or less per skill point after that. However if you're horking as a primary skill, no reason not to go for 20 (though honestly, from lv13 to 20 you only gain 5% chance).

If you were to use +skills to push it past 20, I'd guess that you'd gain another 1% chance for every 2-3 levels.

Again, I've never pumped it to max, so I don't know if things become wonderfully effective at that point, but my old horker could consistent get double drops from almost every other boss monster, and at least once per pack of champions. Could always swap to a pair of echoing weapons on switch after all the killing is done to boost it up +6, or even a pair of heart carvers for +8. A carver + ali baba seems like a good set for it, though I usually keep echoing to boost my battle orders/shout/battle command shouts.

Best of luck with your project!

[Svalin]

Aha, I was thinking if you have a for example level 20 'find item' it ment you have a 51% chance that the moster would drop an item like he would in for example an 8-player game (very good/much) and if you have a level 1 'find item' you had a 13% chance that the monster would drop like he would in single player.

Apperantly I was thinking much to complicated and all that increases in just the %'s (Ye, it does make sense now)

Looking at the chart:
13 19 24 29 32 35 37 39 41 42 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 51

My barb (Torch/Anni/Nigma/Command/Arreats/Arach and Heart Carver + Ali Baba) level 14 would wield almost no significant upgrade when maxed, so I think I could do without a single hard point in it. :)

Thanks for clearing that up.

Cheers,

Svalin