New Official Magic Find Information

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Items & Equipment - Game Guide - Diablo III

tl;dr= Magic find does also influence the quality the rare items you get.

So buying UID items is not a good idea if you dont know the persons gear, if they dropped while he was wearing little MF chances are high that they have a sub par amount of affixes.

Magic Find


Magic find affects the quality of items you acquire from killing enemies (but not treasure chests, vases, weapon racks, or other environmental objects). It doesn’t give you a chance to get more items on a given kill – instead, it increases the chance that an item you find will be magical, and more potent than it would be otherwise.
When a monster drops an item, Diablo III randomly determines the item’s quality from a chart that includes item quality and the number of affixes present. The game randomly "rolls" on each property in the chart to determine which affixes your item will get. Your magic find score is applied as a bonus to these rolls.
For example, if a monster has a 4% chance to drop a 6-affix rare item and you have +50% magic find, it now has a 6% chance to drop that item.
Item quality is checked in the following order:

Legendary
6-affix rare
5-affix rare
4-affix rare
2-affix rare
1-affix rare
magic item


Using the above example, when your roll ‘misses’ a higher-level item quality, the item generator proceeds to the next lowest item quality in the chain (in this case, checking to see if you got a 6-affix rare, then checking for a 5-affix rare, and so on). Your magic find bonus applies to each roll. If the same monster has a 10% chance to drop a 5-affix rare item and you have 50% magic find, you now have a 15% chance to get a 5-affix rare item.
In a group, all players' magic find bonuses are averaged. So, if you’re in a four person group where two players each have +20% magic find and the other two players have none, all four players will effectively have +10% to magic find.

[kill123]

they change alot alot now.. hard to farm.

[Spinzlol]

It could be more effective if MF was a default affix on high end gear like it was on D2...

Nice idea but cannot be exploited without requiring to Gear Swap and they plan to nerf it.

[Fishoo]

It could be more effective if MF was a default affix on high end gear like it was on D2...

Nice idea but cannot be exploited without requiring to Gear Swap and they plan to nerf it.

Actually you can.

My barb have 257% magic find, 48k dps, 6k armor-800-900 res, 60k hp.

I get ALOT of rares and ALOT of 5-6 affixes.
I don't even need to swap.

Only swap when I feel like theres no danger and the elite pack is weak or have no great affixes (to get to 300% MF)

Ofc it cost me quite alot but it's worth it as I get 2x more rares then before.

[Trollz0r23]

I think I have the most magic find ATM, I have 432 with valor and shrine ofc :P I am a barb. The max is 437 on barb, and 442 on WD

[MunQs]

437 max @ barb ? Then how u explain my barb has 441mf ? Imageshack - screenshot040p.jpg
And I ain't even perf yet... can achieve 9% more from perf 15mf screaming chain + band of fallen heroes.

[Knighttan]

437 max @ barb ? Then how u explain my barb has 441mf ? Imageshack - screenshot040p.jpg
And I ain't even perf yet... can achieve 9% more from perf 15mf screaming chain + band of fallen heroes.

Bro , i salute you ~

Thumb up for the MF ~

By the way with such high MF , mostly in ACT 1 ?

And the Drop rate good ?

I am a with 360MF but my rares are still crappy ~

Need some pointer ~

Oh yah , quick Qns , running in group with some without MF gear will affect your drop ?

[chads]

wow 441% mf? thats awesome...
i only got 300% mf btw

[tenaciouzd]

and ironically still has zero 63 ilvls in bag, lol