D3 how does magic find work

Diablo IV. Classes Barbarian Druid Sorceress Rogue. Forums Wiki editing forum Diablo gameplay forum Off-topic forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Magic find. View source. History Talk 6. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Categories Magical attribute. Does that mean that 2 lvl 63 item will have the same chance of being good no matter how high your magic find is, but you are more likely to get lvl 63 item?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The Magic Find attribute can be found on any items that are high enough to support the affixes. Magic Find is based on a percentile increase.

This means each player sees their own loot and not loot that has dropped for the other people in the group. When picked up and dropped on the ground or traded the items obviously become visible to the other players as well. Players will find stacking Magic Find gear more difficult than Diablo II due to the sacrifice of other important attributes. Topaz gems will add Magic Find when socketed into a Helmet. Improve this answer. It affects your chance to find the items, but does it actually make the items better?

Mag No, affix generation is separate. It only affects the decision of what type of item will drop Normal, Magic, Rare, or Legendary.

Joey Actually, that confirms that Magic Find works exactly the same as Diablo 2. Where do you see a contradiction? EBongo Thanks for the reminder. I've updated the information so that it is no longer a direct quote since the source is not updated , but it should now be accurate.

Show 4 more comments. Magic Find in Patch 2. H It should be noted that while Normal-Master difficulties do not increase the chances of a legendary at all, they also do not penalize any legendary that is found. Community Bot 1. Tater Tater 6, 8 8 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 71 71 bronze badges.

What source do you have for these tiered rates? That seems somewhat off. Frank- us. Both of the posts being quoted have links. Perhaps that was from the beta period? If so, a live source would be preferable.

This post is from a Blizzard moderator. I don't think a moderator has the inside track on info from the developer. But that's at least a live source. Show 2 more comments. Blizz has never made their loot tables public, as far as I know. MF does not impact Ancient or Primal chances at all. It only impacts the chance for a Legendary to drop.

Of course, if you have more Legendary items, you have more chances for one to be Ancient or Primal. Thanks for the answer! So why is better to have magic find in a closed difficulty system like in D2?

Because this is an aRPG where the main part of playing this type of genre of game is about making those decisions on how to gear.