D3 Gear Farming Strats

[Ellay]

Not sure if farming chests after 1.03 will be worth it in general. With my 80k dps no SS demon hunter with 212 base MF i get 1-2 rares from rares/champion packs already almost every time.

It seems Demon Hunters are the best dps in the game and have had the easiest time in inferno for gear checks vs progression. Makes me want to level mine up higher, they are only lvl 12 at the moment but there is just something about the class that turns me off. Partly because it doesn't make sense how they succeed so well, really just ought to give them a try

[Ellay]

From the latest patch notes.

Magic Find will no longer be considered when looting objects in the environment such as chests, barrels, vases, pots, and corpses

Makes doing this of lesser value, but still it's a chest!

[Lyonheart]

From the latest patch notes.

Magic Find will no longer be considered when looting objects in the environment such as chests, barrels, vases, pots, and corpses

Makes doing this of lesser value, but still it's a chest!

basically rendering MF useless for the mobs that matter. for Inf mode, you need topnotch stats to beat elite packs and bosses.. so you don't have much room for MF on your gear. Its main usefulness has always been for all those items listed that i wont work for now.

[Ellay]

basically rendering MF useless for the mobs that matter. for Inf mode, you need topnotch stats to beat elite packs and bosses.. so you don't have much room for MF on your gear. Its main usefulness has always been for all those items listed that i wont work for now.

Well the current method is kind of clunky, most high end players from what I've read and seen in videos will swap out their gear for MF gear right before killing the mob. Which then counts as wearing all of the gear in the first place. So do 99% damage run away a bit, swap gear - boom profit.

Me personally, with 4 characters is not going to bother that route.

[Lyonheart]

Well the current method is kind of clunky, most high end players from what I've read and seen in videos will swap out their gear for MF gear right before killing the mob. Which then counts as wearing all of the gear in the first place. So do 99% damage run away a bit, swap gear - boom profit.

Me personally, with 4 characters is not going to bother that route.

Yea.. i guess you could put some MF on a few of your followers without hurting anything.

[JohnGabriel]

Are you sure swapping your magic find gear right before the boss dies will work? In WoW all the loot tables are calculated when the dungeon is first entered.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Yes, it works. Loot drops are calculated on the Kill. I am disappointed with Magic Find no longer working on chests, bodies and breakable barrels. That combined with repair costs has made me much more reliant on having crappy loot that normally gets vendored or disenchanted sell on the AH.