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For Diablo 3, please don’t give items MF bonuses, or else the same problem will occur. People given a choice between easier challenges and greater rewards will almost always choose the greater rewards if the challenge is already doable. Without the MF dimension, players will make their item choices based on what makes them strongest, as it was intended.
That’s not to say that MF can’t be in the game. It can be a fun dynamic if done right. For example, randomly generated shrines could provide a temporary magic find bonus, spurring players to fight hard and fast to maximize the chance of finding something amazing. Another idea would be having the ability to use gold to purchase a temporary Magic Find buff from town. This would also be an effective gold sink.
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Assume that whatever Grug says I agree with, so any loner he is arguing with instantly loses 2 to 1.
-Cpslostudent
I think the trick with magic find, or any sort of tertiary stat that doesn’t directly relate to player power, is to make sure that it’s an actual trade off. A lot of times and specifically for certain classes in Diablo II you could stack magic find and still be perfectly able to fight and kill. So what it really comes down to is properly weighting stats on items and ensuring that if you do want to stack something like magic find, that it’s clearly going to limit your power in downing enemies. Auto-stats to a degree also help out in this regard as you can’t effectively stack stats as easily to offset the loss of stats coming from items that might otherwise help keep you alive or kill at an acceptable pace.That said magic find isn’t fully drawn up yet, there’s not a complete pool of itemization where we can begin tweaking balance to a degree where we can ensure MF doesn’t get out of hand. It could turn out that we need to take an alternate approach, but, if I had to guess simply weighting the stat properly would be enough.
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…. rrriiiigghhht…. You sure you got the right game there? Maybe I’m missing something, but to my knowledge I have not once – in four and a half years of playing – ever bought a buff.
Hrm… maybe the need to buy reagents for group buffs? I’m not too sure either. Hah.
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Yup. Group buffs require reagents.
Hah, I know they do, but is that what he was talking about?
Whatevs. Magic find is fine. IT’S FINE Y’ALL! Ok, thread ended.
There needs to be some kind of tradeoff, I agree. Having 1000% magic find and being level 99 is just plain silly I think it should be more like 20% MF should be the new uber and while you are at it, make it drop your AC by 20% and str. by 20%. or something along those lines. This way if you are level 99 and have your stats dropped say 80%, you can still drudge your way through hordes of zombies (in a fun brawling way of course) and see more items drop that you didn’t before when you were level 20 (You made it to level 99 afterall… that should be the payoff ratio). The higher level you are the more MF you can handle having and the more loot you are likely to see.
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