Good job on the video dude, glad that you know that MF isn't everything and you did this purely for the concept/testing itself. Tyrael's Might is the only item in the game that i still miss from the Holy Grail and i messed with anywhere from 300mf - 800mf and i couldn't REALLY tell the difference in the drops.. but after i took a break from MF'ing for Tyrael's and looking for Zod/Bases with my 30mf (from self wielding infinity) nova sorc i was in awe when rare items still dropped like Nightwing's, Facets, Shako, Arachnid's, Ravenlore, Stormlash, Griswold's Redemption.. its insane
Magic find increases your normal chance to get an item, having 0 MF doesn't mean you will not get any magic items. You start game as 0, if that was true you would be stuck to white and grey items. Magic find depends a lot of the area and the item that drops from mobs. If a monster drops an item that doesn't have a set or unique version, well, tough luck. It doesn't mean magic find is not working, it means it can have no effect on that certain item. (because loot roll first decides what base item is chosen from loot table, then it decides the quality, then from the said quality it rolls which item if more than 1 is available, etc, etc)
I am actually impressed with the increase in unique drops.. I mean, for a 100 run comparison it doesn't look like a lot, but if we account for extended runs and overall gameplay during days and days that really scales up to substantial amounts of unique/set/rare drops and potentially some GGs. keep up the good work bro!
completed a grail a few years back, and I shit you not, the last item I needed was the bloody skull collector and while it was the last one left it took ages to find... found several griffons before that... RNG giveth and RNG taketh.
wouldn't mind having a couple of those 926% MF charms lol But yes, the MF gain really falls off the further you go, each additional % less effective than the last until it's basically flatlined.
I''m brand new to Diablo and heard D2 is best so i bought D2R. I asked a twitch streamer for help getting started and he gave me my first charm. 11% magic find has really helped the early game. I'm almost done with Act 1.
@@RNGesus_Channel summon necro. I played a few hours of D4 last month because it’s on gamepass and could totally imagine getting addicted to the gameplay loop. I know D4 has a lot of problems, and have never even heard or seen anyone mention D3, so I got D2 after hearing how beloved it still is. I know I should probably follow a build guild and I’ve got maxroll bookmarked. I’m also fairly new to having a PC. After a lifetime of console gaming, I’m still not used to multi-tasking while gaming. I did get spotify and discord but I haven’t joined any groups yet.
@Techn9cian123 Diablo is a great franchise, but D2 is where it's at in my opinion. Necro as first ever character is interesting, most people go either Pally or Sorc, but as a summon necro you should be fine in the later game with immunes. If you need assistance reach out.
I believe it translates to: You're going overboard with your 4#0%/7##% switch MF as well. I always believed after 180~220% MF, you should aim for kill speed to the excess. Of course, the OP busted immunity-breaking charms changed the game FOREVER.
Did this with hero editor back in the day offline and essentially every item that has a unique drops a unique. the way the game works is it looks at table for loot, picks items from that table, then checks MF, then rolls item rarity based on MF. if you have infinite MF, all items that can drop unique, do.
Not true, first of all magic find and the math involved in determining drops is not so simple and second I have tried this offline before with 85000% mf(you can't get much more than that) and I still get plenty of normal and superior items so I don't see a world where every drop is a unique if you can't even get all magic drops, unless you start messing with the game files I don't think it's possible.
@@talictdf4757 You did not played Valhalla mod, with Den of evil full of Diablo... each Drops Uniques only. It was fun back in the days, to try this one.And figure out how to become that strong to farm this cave.
the diminishing returns for MF were not in the base game, but IIRC even in the base game a unique could not drop more than once. I think dimishing MF got introduced in 1.09 or 1.10
I thought that initially but figured no one is magic finding with zero mf gear. But for the sake of a base value you're right, I probably should have just included it.
I've seen a couple people do this experiment before and it seemed that over a certain point of MF you just get way more rare items than the uniques you want
well mf is kinda complicated in d2. when you kill something the game rolls first what item will drop. there is a possibility that it will be a scroll, pot, charm, jewels, runes, etc. that aren't affected by mf. then ofc it can drop gear items like armor, weapons and jewelery. this is affected by mf. so when it rolled to drop an item the mf will influence the chance for the quality of the item with white being most common and then magic, rare, set and unique. however with magic items there aren't really any diminishing returns. this is why high mf is rather shit to find bases and why i have swap gear to 0 out mf for cow runs when i want to farm for specific bases. because with high mf you will literally not drop anyhing white anymore lol. without hero editor cheat charms it is ofc not that bad and not everything will be basically at least magic but even normal mf that you would have can greatly decrease white/grey drops. however for rares, sets and uniques the diminishing returns kinda flatline the curve and insane mf is usually not worth it. the sweet spot between killspeed and mf is usually at around 250-450 depending on the char, gear and build etc. in addition to all of that there is also these monster level and area level shenanigans going on where sometimes the game rolls a shako and that it's unique but the area/boss prevents it because the item can simply not drop where you currently are or from the monster you killed. this will then drop a rare shako with tripple durability instead. or double dura if it wanted to roll a set. however this will also happen when the game simply doesn't have a unique or set version of the item that rolled to drop.
Very nice video. Thank you for the work and effort. This saves me tons of testing. So as it seems (and have always been) - more killing speed = more items. Better chance is optional and it should not slow you down. Therefore - more then 200 is just not worth it. again, really good video. You dont need 1000 runs, because most people will never do 1000 runs. Normal playing today is 1-2 hours per day, so....
Interesting. When I ran 800ish (many years ago) I felt like the set items dropped way more frequently than anything else but also lots of blues. Mostly played with around 200-300 on any given build and didn't sweat the numbers too much - back then I could just embrace the grind
Interesting tests! Thanks for taking the time to do that and show the results. As someonenwho has pkayed D2 for 20+ years, it's always amusing to see people make a similar mistake with gold find, they try to get silly amounts of gold find like 600% etc. The game itself has caps on how much any individual monster can drop, and you hit that cap around 200% GF.
@@Saveddrip depends on which LoD version you are playing. Best test is to equip you GF % then do 10 or 20 Trav runs and see what gold the council drops. Then try a different GF% like up it from 200 to 400 and see how much the total changes from the next 10 runs.
Your spreadsheet is not going to be predictable, because you didn't take into account the rares that spawn with double durability and triple durability. Double durability means it was going to spawn as a unique item, triple means it would of spawned as a set item, but since that item doesnt exist, it spawns as a rare. So to find the true value of 20,000% mf you need to pick the rares up. If only this game has a unique and set item for each weapon.
I understand your thinking and if I was just working out how many uniques/set dropped from 20000%, I would agree. But in comparing 200% to 20,000% and I didn't check the rares for failed uniques in either, then surely it is an equitable comparison? I would love each item base to have a unique/set version.
You have a point but the "value" of MF isn't based off of failed uniques and set items. So picking them up to see that its failed proves nothing as far as value in MF terms. No one is increasing their MF in D2 thinking "I do this so I can get my triple durability rare Sacred Armor." People are increasing their MF for uniques mainly. His comparison was fine and showed exactly why its pointless to have way too much MF.
The problem is that when you leave the game it resets. So it would take forever to complete 100 chaos runs. You could clear each act as regular and infinite mf though.
Inatead of counting the item number, rank each item based on rarity. Then make the test again and see the change in quality you get from the insane MF. One of the biggest problems with high MF is that you don’t get more items and for that reason it has to be reminiscing returns. But the quality is much much better I estimate.
Someone rumored on yt that if you have to much mf mephisto may have trouble dropping items and they may merge. Not sure what to believe of it. I do know there was something in the game that allowed broken items to happen which got duped endlessly. He did show a jewel that cant normally drop. Perhaps it is interesting to fill an entire room with vendor items leaving only one space for the boss to drop the loot in. I'm sure it would be great new meta to endlessly fill rooms with vendor trash just for the 0.01% change something new wil happen.
Hm ithats an ideat but like you said, sample size doesnt give us an accurate view of this. if you were willing why not do 100 runs per sitting recording the data then publishing what it looks like at 1k I started a holy grain in S1, and only recently finished in whatever season is out now a month or two ago, its TOUGH and you gotta stay with it. happy to say Ive found every item in d2r though + runes
In addition, you cannot measure this fairly online, as the BER drop videos for offline runefarming already explained that the SEED game is obviously the key factor in getting drops at all, in complete disregard of how much MF you got. If you want to test this it should be the same SEED game, as otherwise you cannot make any statement using random seed games.
From what I understand about the Seed videos is that it applies to a poppable item and even that is very specific, make this movement, take this amount of time exactly to get there etc. The monsters spawning on an offline game and an online game are still random each time, it is only the map layout which is static. If the monsters are different, with different unique/champion mobs everytime a new game is loaded, then i don't understand how this could not be equitable? If i am wrong then please correct me, because i would love to learn new things about this game.
So first of all there is a misconception here about how MF works. MF does not affect the base drop of an item at all. Once a base item is rolled/dropped MF affects whether that base item is rolled as a magic item, rare item, set item, or unique item. Seeding determines the initial number in the random number generator that determines what base items can drop. It also affects things like map layouts, monster spawns, and to some degree the affixes on an item but it is still not fully understood yet and leaves a lot to be learned about how seeds works. You can test this your self with a seeded world. Put on a bunch of MF gear go find a seeded item rack and keep running the route to that item rack every time and you still see even under the exact same conditions the item will not always drop at the same rarity. I have seen people target farm uniques via weapon and armor racks in seeds by doing the exact same thing with varying amounts of MF until they hit the unique drop.
100 runs is not that much when we talk about so much randomness - the type of items monster can drop, the amount of monsters, the amount of boss groups (besides the 3 specific ones). if you do another 100 runs the numbers may be totally different. 1000 runs will average it way better. Saying that, 20k MF is pointless. Kill speed is way better anyway, and around 400MF is your golden spot. P.S. The game is insane. I dont do Holy grail, but i've made 20+ characters that are lvl 85 and up, and leveling them up in terror zones ect. I have found Tyrael's recently lol, and i've found Zod, but i do not have any single SOJ or Mara's , nor Jah rune for Enigma :D How does this even make sense lol.
I believe the odds an item will drop unique from a normal monster are roughly 1 in 400 with 0% mf; that is, 0.25% of the items will drop unique. There is a diminishing return on gains when adding magic find; in the case of a normal monster, it is not possible to reach 1%, or 1 in 100, that an item dropped will be unique, which is what 300% WOULD look like if there were no diminishing returns. let's look at the first item alphabetically, the unique aegis, from hell baal it's odds of being unique at 0% mf is 6.6%. at 100% mf, it's odds of being unique is 11.2% (this +100% mf is worth +4.6%, 4.6 is 69% (nice) of 6.6, so this is a true gain of 69%. at 200% mf, 13.9% (this +100% mf is worth +2.7%, 2.7 is 24% of 11.2. this is a true gain of 24%. at 20,000% mf, 22.5% (this +19,800 mf is worth +8.6%, 8.6 is 61% of 13.9. a true gain of 61%. note this 19,800 is worth less than the first 100, which was worth 69% (nice).) at 0%mf, the odds she drops the unique are 1:3375 at 50%mf, the odds she drops the unique are 1:2395 that 50%mf removed 30% of the runs. at 200%mf, odds are 1:1599 at 1000%mf, odds are 1:1126 that 800%mf removed 30% of the runs. 200% just is the sweet spot haha there is no need to go past that unless your kill speed is absolutely unaffected.
So the MF diminishing returns is pretty well documented on quite a few sites. Below is the table for magic find values and how much it effects the drop rate of items at 100% MF break point. Assuming the values keep scaling in a similar fashion all the way to 20k MF then i would suspect that you are barely gaining any benefit at all for unique drops. 100%-200% MF seems to be the easiest most beneficial break point. If you are sacrificing kill speed to get more then 200% MF you are probably lowering your over all odds of finding unique items pretty significantly. Value Magic Rare Set Unique 100% MF 100% 85% 83% 71% 200% MF 200% 150% 142% 111% 300% MF 300% 200% 187% 136% 400% MF 400% 240% 222% 153% 500% MF 500% 272% 250% 166%
Any chance you have the total time it took to run using 200 vs 20000. Thats an important dimension i think is missing from your spreadsheet. Otherwise - very interesting and great work. Regarding the set vs unique comment: I think it might be because there are > 2 x the number of unqiue vs set items... dont recall the exact numbers but something like 385 unique vs 127 set items.
Yeah, I gave away a couple of items here, but i ended up just dumping the rest in a free game. Wasn't many takers, you dudes are all geared up already it seems.
Surprisingly I still have the Shako, harder to give away than i thought haha. I guess non ladder people have most things already. It's yours if you need it
@@RNGesus_Channel Sooo, is that shako still around or? 😂 Cannot get my hands on one. I've never done any trading or anything, no clue what things are worth. So far online single player self found only. Lvl 87 or 88 Hammerdin. Me and the wife play together every now and then once the kids go to bed, so player 2 difficulty is my max so far, haha. Still looking for enigma runes but I did find a 3os mage plate 😮 no Archon yet. I dunno, figured id ask.
@@FellowshipOfTheAviatorZ No one seemed interested in any of the gear, so I just made a public free game and dumped it all on the ground. That being said tho, I believe I have one kicking around on a mule you can have.
@@RNGesus_Channel Wow, thanks man. I'd be happy to trade for it if I have anything you'd be interested in. You let me know how and when and I'd be happy to exchange anything. Went through a pretty big hurricane last night here in North Florida so it might be a few days, though, lol.
@@FellowshipOfTheAviatorZ That's awful, I hope all is ok. I've got the next few days off if you are able to jump on sometime, but I totally get if you can't. I do fly out to the UK for a month on the 2nd tho. I don't need anything for it, it's yours for free.
My friend, I promise and I mean this in my heart of hearts. We didnt need 6 minute explanation telling us how you achieved the magic find. I felt like you were going to datamine the actual games coding to show us the magic find. Trust me, we get it. You have a lot of magic find. Pleaes get to the point.
I did a similar test a while back and I got 67 uniques over 40 runs with 85000 mf but I did clear the entrance area as well which probably got me about 5 to 10 extra uniques. Thing is there were many cases where Diablo didn't drop anything unique which to me it pretty much means that stacking lots of mf is especially useless on bosses, they're only useful for their high TC drops other than that elite packs tend to drop more consistently plus you can farm them on TZs. Small sample size but the numbers aren't that far off from yours considering the ridiculous amounts of mf.
Why do you use LoH with a foher? (the +% damage to demons doesn't work FoH OR Smite either) Also, why not 2x 40% mf rings instead of 2 Nagels? Sure Nagel is more common and cheaper, but doesn't really offer that much in hell in return rather than attack rating (what you don't benefit from and -6 damage reduce)
I don't normally wear them, I had to remove gear to get the MF down to 200%. Chancies are normally on. As for the 40% MF rings, it's an online character and I haven't found any 40% rings, I can't justify the cost of trading for them for the extra 20% mf when i am already running 450% and then 700% on swap. diminishing returns tells me that at that stage 20% isn't doing much.
You are mistaken. The 42.67% increase is in reference to the number 75. The formula is (107-75)/75x100% If you looked at things the other way around, a 30% decrease from 107 gives you 75. The formula remains the same (75-107)/107x100%
You can get over 10K MF without cheats/fake charms . That weird Souls easter egg that was found recently gives you MF, and if you let them do the trick long enough you'd end with basically infinite MF. Yet, it takes way too long time to be worth it. Maybe if you leave the game open and go to sleep, and you come back the next day, to clear the whole game of monsters. I see no real use, except for searching for unique rings. Maybe that way you can find most unique rings in 1 go.
@@RNGesus_Channel Yep, I play only non ladder. Let me know when would be a good time for you to meet up and I'll make it happen. Thanks! Just recently discovered your content, and I'm loving it! I'm a big fan of off meta builds. Keep up the great work!
It has always been my contention that anything beyond 250%mf is just window dressing and bragging rights. This is the opinion that I formed way back in the day, like 20 years ago (whenever LoD dropped and I got serious about playing).
MF is an extremly overrated stat in Diablo 2 as it hits the soft cap really fast while 200 mf is actually more than enough. As IL and TC play into account for most stuff you have to further look into the actual monsterlevel of the area and bosses to determine where you can drop certain items like Tyraels which If I remember correct can normally only drop from Diablo himself in CS. An other factor is the actual lootpool and base pool of the enemys from which they can choose the drops and for runes mf does nothing and you would want to look for enemys with lower base pools instead like ghosts for example that can't have certain base drops therefore have a lesser pool of options. Player 1-8 and the actual number of players in the area furthermore decreases the chance to get a no drop roll which leads to more drops in total. So rather than running lots of mf kill speed is the better option as long as you have some mf between 150 and 300 mf you are good to go.
This is true. I chose to do P1 because 50% of the players play online and cannot reliably set a players number. Players 1 seemed like the best baseline.
Yeah that's me being paranoid about video length. I'll make sure to leave them on a bit longer next video. Thanks for the feedback, really helpful as i'm new to this
I dont think it helps cuz i have 300% mf scs on a horker single player and i find more online with a hammerdin foh din 700mf horker and mosiac then i have ever found on the single player barb
You should put the item stats up when your talking about them in the beginning for people that haven't memorized the rarest useless items. Not sure what asurass is. Maybe you were saying something else your accent is thicker than my pole dancing grandma
if you know anything about the drop rates you know that unique items are well below 1%, so you DO want as much mf as you can possibly get. 10 runs with only a couple drops past rare VS 10 runs with several drops past rare proves this. try this with 100,000 mf.
No point to make this video. You cant never even get 20k MF on battle net. It doesnt make any sense. That like to do milion dmg on edit char, wtf? ... Also i saw at 12:22 how De Seis almost owned you, lol.
@@BlueMoonOwner Probably if somebody can open the "raw game data" They would find out that the Magic find is capped to some maximum by file, is what i think. Otherwise he would get very different result at the end.
How dare you to pretend to be our lord and saviour of drops and random numbers...i'm deeply offended and need to pray to rngesus now and that's not you😝😝
@@maxlamenace5280 and you have the most boring comment. So yay? 😂 And this is my first video of his I have watched. Seems pretty standard to explain what his goals were. His method was flawed but still interesting. Just wished he actually did more in depth. Different players set, multiple locations. But whatever
This is a pretty dumb test as everyone knows the sweetspot of mf in D2 lies around 350-400%, neglecting this is just making your whole experiment bullocks.
This was me wanting to know how much the mf falls off by putting an insane amount in. I needed a base line to compare it against and chose 200 for that. I prefaced the video by explaining that I run my normal online MF character with about 420% and you don't want to compromise speed for mf as the gains are not worth it. Which part did i neglect? It's ok that you didn't like the video, I know these aren't for everyone.
I really like D2r and your video.. Thank u for that.. but let me just please you to not use the picture of our lord Jesus Christ in this case.. I think he shouldnt be used like that..
Good job on the video dude, glad that you know that MF isn't everything and you did this purely for the concept/testing itself. Tyrael's Might is the only item in the game that i still miss from the Holy Grail and i messed with anywhere from 300mf - 800mf and i couldn't REALLY tell the difference in the drops.. but after i took a break from MF'ing for Tyrael's and looking for Zod/Bases with my 30mf (from self wielding infinity) nova sorc i was in awe when rare items still dropped like Nightwing's, Facets, Shako, Arachnid's, Ravenlore, Stormlash, Griswold's Redemption.. its insane
@@Agon1stt I’ve found one with 100ish MF on a tz pit lv 96. I love to say it - MF is a greedy man’s trap
Magic find increases your normal chance to get an item, having 0 MF doesn't mean you will not get any magic items. You start game as 0, if that was true you would be stuck to white and grey items. Magic find depends a lot of the area and the item that drops from mobs. If a monster drops an item that doesn't have a set or unique version, well, tough luck. It doesn't mean magic find is not working, it means it can have no effect on that certain item. (because loot roll first decides what base item is chosen from loot table, then it decides the quality, then from the said quality it rolls which item if more than 1 is available, etc, etc)
I am actually impressed with the increase in unique drops.. I mean, for a 100 run comparison it doesn't look like a lot, but if we account for extended runs and overall gameplay during days and days that really scales up to substantial amounts of unique/set/rare drops and potentially some GGs. keep up the good work bro!
@@fabioc.9682 man, it's 20000% mf, what did you expect? Most of the high mf builds get 400-700%mf.
completed a grail a few years back, and I shit you not, the last item I needed was the bloody skull collector and while it was the last one left it took ages to find... found several griffons before that... RNG giveth and RNG taketh.
wouldn't mind having a couple of those 926% MF charms lol
But yes, the MF gain really falls off the further you go, each additional % less effective than the last until it's basically flatlined.
I''m brand new to Diablo and heard D2 is best so i bought D2R. I asked a twitch streamer for help getting started and he gave me my first charm. 11% magic find has really helped the early game. I'm almost done with Act 1.
Welcome to D2R! I hope you are enjoying it. Which class did you choose?
The first lots of magic find are huge, but it's a diminishing returns system.
@@RNGesus_Channel summon necro. I played a few hours of D4 last month because it’s on gamepass and could totally imagine getting addicted to the gameplay loop. I know D4 has a lot of problems, and have never even heard or seen anyone mention D3, so I got D2 after hearing how beloved it still is. I know I should probably follow a build guild and I’ve got maxroll bookmarked. I’m also fairly new to having a PC. After a lifetime of console gaming, I’m still not used to multi-tasking while gaming. I did get spotify and discord but I haven’t joined any groups yet.
@Techn9cian123 Diablo is a great franchise, but D2 is where it's at in my opinion. Necro as first ever character is interesting, most people go either Pally or Sorc, but as a summon necro you should be fine in the later game with immunes. If you need assistance reach out.
I believe it translates to: You're going overboard with your 4#0%/7##% switch MF as well. I always believed after 180~220% MF, you should aim for kill speed to the excess. Of course, the OP busted immunity-breaking charms changed the game FOREVER.
Did this with hero editor back in the day offline and essentially every item that has a unique drops a unique. the way the game works is it looks at table for loot, picks items from that table, then checks MF, then rolls item rarity based on MF. if you have infinite MF, all items that can drop unique, do.
And that is why people on classic would stop at around 100-150% mf because we were chasing rares.
Not true, first of all magic find and the math involved in determining drops is not so simple and second I have tried this offline before with 85000% mf(you can't get much more than that) and I still get plenty of normal and superior items so I don't see a world where every drop is a unique if you can't even get all magic drops, unless you start messing with the game files I don't think it's possible.
@@talictdf4757 You did not played Valhalla mod, with Den of evil full of Diablo...
each Drops Uniques only.
It was fun back in the days, to try this one.And figure out how to become that strong to farm this cave.
the diminishing returns for MF were not in the base game, but IIRC even in the base game a unique could not drop more than once.
I think dimishing MF got introduced in 1.09 or 1.10
Nice stuff, would be great if you also had done a 0% run for base value.
I thought that initially but figured no one is magic finding with zero mf gear. But for the sake of a base value you're right, I probably should have just included it.
@@RNGesus_Channel I am mfing with 0 mf, you just need to kill the champions they always drop a set number of items
I've seen a couple people do this experiment before and it seemed that over a certain point of MF you just get way more rare items than the uniques you want
well mf is kinda complicated in d2. when you kill something the game rolls first what item will drop. there is a possibility that it will be a scroll, pot, charm, jewels, runes, etc. that aren't affected by mf. then ofc it can drop gear items like armor, weapons and jewelery. this is affected by mf. so when it rolled to drop an item the mf will influence the chance for the quality of the item with white being most common and then magic, rare, set and unique. however with magic items there aren't really any diminishing returns. this is why high mf is rather shit to find bases and why i have swap gear to 0 out mf for cow runs when i want to farm for specific bases. because with high mf you will literally not drop anyhing white anymore lol. without hero editor cheat charms it is ofc not that bad and not everything will be basically at least magic but even normal mf that you would have can greatly decrease white/grey drops. however for rares, sets and uniques the diminishing returns kinda flatline the curve and insane mf is usually not worth it. the sweet spot between killspeed and mf is usually at around 250-450 depending on the char, gear and build etc.
in addition to all of that there is also these monster level and area level shenanigans going on where sometimes the game rolls a shako and that it's unique but the area/boss prevents it because the item can simply not drop where you currently are or from the monster you killed. this will then drop a rare shako with tripple durability instead. or double dura if it wanted to roll a set. however this will also happen when the game simply doesn't have a unique or set version of the item that rolled to drop.
This channel requires more subscribers based solely on the name of it alone.
Very nice video. Thank you for the work and effort. This saves me tons of testing.
So as it seems (and have always been) - more killing speed = more items. Better chance is optional and it should not slow you down. Therefore - more then 200 is just not worth it.
again, really good video. You dont need 1000 runs, because most people will never do 1000 runs. Normal playing today is 1-2 hours per day, so....
Interesting. When I ran 800ish (many years ago) I felt like the set items dropped way more frequently than anything else but also lots of blues. Mostly played with around 200-300 on any given build and didn't sweat the numbers too much - back then I could just embrace the grind
Interesting tests! Thanks for taking the time to do that and show the results.
As someonenwho has pkayed D2 for 20+ years, it's always amusing to see people make a similar mistake with gold find, they try to get silly amounts of gold find like 600% etc. The game itself has caps on how much any individual monster can drop, and you hit that cap around 200% GF.
whats the cap each monster can drop? 200 seems awfully low for the cap.
@@Saveddrip depends on which LoD version you are playing.
Best test is to equip you GF % then do 10 or 20 Trav runs and see what gold the council drops.
Then try a different GF% like up it from 200 to 400 and see how much the total changes from the next 10 runs.
For me 300-400% mf is more than enough and kill speed on all characters is similar
Your spreadsheet is not going to be predictable, because you didn't take into account the rares that spawn with double durability and triple durability. Double durability means it was going to spawn as a unique item, triple means it would of spawned as a set item, but since that item doesnt exist, it spawns as a rare. So to find the true value of 20,000% mf you need to pick the rares up. If only this game has a unique and set item for each weapon.
I understand your thinking and if I was just working out how many uniques/set dropped from 20000%, I would agree. But in comparing 200% to 20,000% and I didn't check the rares for failed uniques in either, then surely it is an equitable comparison?
I would love each item base to have a unique/set version.
You have a point but the "value" of MF isn't based off of failed uniques and set items. So picking them up to see that its failed proves nothing as far as value in MF terms. No one is increasing their MF in D2 thinking "I do this so I can get my triple durability rare Sacred Armor." People are increasing their MF for uniques mainly. His comparison was fine and showed exactly why its pointless to have way too much MF.
@@jynx5616 yes and no. Failed uniques are rares with x3 durability and failed sets are magic items with x2 durability
Not quite. A realistic assessment of uniques will be variable , but includes the fact that unique rolls will fail at a certain rate.
@@Hypasurf22 sacred armor can't roll tuple durable because of IK arnor
once you reach around 900 magic find you see no difference. you should try 7-9 hundred vs 20 thousand and you might actually see no difference
Great video! I would have enjoyed the rare data too!!!
I feel like you are Mr.Llamaccs evil twin brother. Keep making cool videos that an evil genuis would make
Solid video, thank you for the insight on the Mf spectrum!
thank you so much for the info! Good work!
I was thinking you were going to do the gloom Easter egg mf thing.
Same
The problem is that when you leave the game it resets. So it would take forever to complete 100 chaos runs. You could clear each act as regular and infinite mf though.
same lol
Inatead of counting the item number, rank each item based on rarity.
Then make the test again and see the change in quality you get from the insane MF.
One of the biggest problems with high MF is that you don’t get more items and for that reason it has to be reminiscing returns. But the quality is much much better I estimate.
These videos have been done soooooo much on a 20+ year old game. Good luck man.
Someone rumored on yt that if you have to much mf mephisto may have trouble dropping items and they may merge. Not sure what to believe of it. I do know there was something in the game that allowed broken items to happen which got duped endlessly. He did show a jewel that cant normally drop. Perhaps it is interesting to fill an entire room with vendor items leaving only one space for the boss to drop the loot in.
I'm sure it would be great new meta to endlessly fill rooms with vendor trash just for the 0.01% change something new wil happen.
Hm ithats an ideat but like you said, sample size doesnt give us an accurate view of this. if you were willing why not do 100 runs per sitting recording the data then publishing what it looks like at 1k
I started a holy grain in S1, and only recently finished in whatever season is out now a month or two ago, its TOUGH and you gotta stay with it. happy to say Ive found every item in d2r though + runes
lol I would settle with 5k magic find. Where can I get those small charms 😂
In addition, you cannot measure this fairly online, as the BER drop videos for offline runefarming already explained that the SEED game is obviously the key factor in getting drops at all, in complete disregard of how much MF you got. If you want to test this it should be the same SEED game, as otherwise you cannot make any statement using random seed games.
From what I understand about the Seed videos is that it applies to a poppable item and even that is very specific, make this movement, take this amount of time exactly to get there etc. The monsters spawning on an offline game and an online game are still random each time, it is only the map layout which is static. If the monsters are different, with different unique/champion mobs everytime a new game is loaded, then i don't understand how this could not be equitable? If i am wrong then please correct me, because i would love to learn new things about this game.
So first of all there is a misconception here about how MF works. MF does not affect the base drop of an item at all. Once a base item is rolled/dropped MF affects whether that base item is rolled as a magic item, rare item, set item, or unique item. Seeding determines the initial number in the random number generator that determines what base items can drop. It also affects things like map layouts, monster spawns, and to some degree the affixes on an item but it is still not fully understood yet and leaves a lot to be learned about how seeds works.
You can test this your self with a seeded world. Put on a bunch of MF gear go find a seeded item rack and keep running the route to that item rack every time and you still see even under the exact same conditions the item will not always drop at the same rarity. I have seen people target farm uniques via weapon and armor racks in seeds by doing the exact same thing with varying amounts of MF until they hit the unique drop.
100 runs is not that much when we talk about so much randomness - the type of items monster can drop, the amount of monsters, the amount of boss groups (besides the 3 specific ones). if you do another 100 runs the numbers may be totally different. 1000 runs will average it way better.
Saying that, 20k MF is pointless. Kill speed is way better anyway, and around 400MF is your golden spot.
P.S. The game is insane. I dont do Holy grail, but i've made 20+ characters that are lvl 85 and up, and leveling them up in terror zones ect. I have found Tyrael's recently lol, and i've found Zod, but i do not have any single SOJ or Mara's , nor Jah rune for Enigma :D How does this even make sense lol.
i want a tyrael's as well!!
I believe the odds an item will drop unique from a normal monster are roughly 1 in 400 with 0% mf; that is, 0.25% of the items will drop unique. There is a diminishing return on gains when adding magic find; in the case of a normal monster, it is not possible to reach 1%, or 1 in 100, that an item dropped will be unique, which is what 300% WOULD look like if there were no diminishing returns.
let's look at the first item alphabetically, the unique aegis, from hell baal
it's odds of being unique at 0% mf is 6.6%.
at 100% mf, it's odds of being unique is 11.2% (this +100% mf is worth +4.6%, 4.6 is 69% (nice) of 6.6, so this is a true gain of 69%.
at 200% mf, 13.9% (this +100% mf is worth +2.7%, 2.7 is 24% of 11.2. this is a true gain of 24%.
at 20,000% mf, 22.5% (this +19,800 mf is worth +8.6%, 8.6 is 61% of 13.9. a true gain of 61%. note this 19,800 is worth less than the first 100, which was worth 69% (nice).)
at 0%mf, the odds she drops the unique are 1:3375
at 50%mf, the odds she drops the unique are 1:2395
that 50%mf removed 30% of the runs.
at 200%mf, odds are 1:1599
at 1000%mf, odds are 1:1126
that 800%mf removed 30% of the runs.
200% just is the sweet spot haha there is no need to go past that unless your kill speed is absolutely unaffected.
Due to diminishing returns, there is almost no difference in terms of the odds for uniq/set drops between 1k or 20k MF
So the MF diminishing returns is pretty well documented on quite a few sites. Below is the table for magic find values and how much it effects the drop rate of items at 100% MF break point. Assuming the values keep scaling in a similar fashion all the way to 20k MF then i would suspect that you are barely gaining any benefit at all for unique drops. 100%-200% MF seems to be the easiest most beneficial break point. If you are sacrificing kill speed to get more then 200% MF you are probably lowering your over all odds of finding unique items pretty significantly.
Value Magic Rare Set Unique
100% MF 100% 85% 83% 71%
200% MF 200% 150% 142% 111%
300% MF 300% 200% 187% 136%
400% MF 400% 240% 222% 153%
500% MF 500% 272% 250% 166%
Could not agree with you more
Any chance you have the total time it took to run using 200 vs 20000. Thats an important dimension i think is missing from your spreadsheet. Otherwise - very interesting and great work. Regarding the set vs unique comment: I think it might be because there are > 2 x the number of unqiue vs set items... dont recall the exact numbers but something like 385 unique vs 127 set items.
I didn't time the runs, but you are correct that kill speed is one of the main considerations with mf.
Diablo: Not even death can save you from! Diablo - Can death ME from you? ....
Can you please rearrange your small charms so round are on the bottom row, the ones with the red bit on the top row, then a block of 6 in the middle?
@@dudhauwhejrnrk snowflake
Snowflake
Nope, it's his character, get over yourself 😂
Helpful video! Did you already give away all the stuff lol
Yeah, I gave away a couple of items here, but i ended up just dumping the rest in a free game. Wasn't many takers, you dudes are all geared up already it seems.
my sleeping Karma is a heck of a stonerrock Band🤘
How did you manage to get those hero editor charms on an online character?
It's an offline character
Fianlly gesus is back
Excellent vid!
Did you ever rid yourself of the Shako? :)
Surprisingly I still have the Shako, harder to give away than i thought haha. I guess non ladder people have most things already. It's yours if you need it
@@RNGesus_Channel Sooo, is that shako still around or? 😂 Cannot get my hands on one. I've never done any trading or anything, no clue what things are worth. So far online single player self found only. Lvl 87 or 88 Hammerdin. Me and the wife play together every now and then once the kids go to bed, so player 2 difficulty is my max so far, haha. Still looking for enigma runes but I did find a 3os mage plate 😮 no Archon yet. I dunno, figured id ask.
@@FellowshipOfTheAviatorZ No one seemed interested in any of the gear, so I just made a public free game and dumped it all on the ground. That being said tho, I believe I have one kicking around on a mule you can have.
@@RNGesus_Channel Wow, thanks man. I'd be happy to trade for it if I have anything you'd be interested in. You let me know how and when and I'd be happy to exchange anything. Went through a pretty big hurricane last night here in North Florida so it might be a few days, though, lol.
@@FellowshipOfTheAviatorZ That's awful, I hope all is ok. I've got the next few days off if you are able to jump on sometime, but I totally get if you can't. I do fly out to the UK for a month on the 2nd tho. I don't need anything for it, it's yours for free.
I'm assuming you're not going to take runes or normal base items unto account since Magic Find diesnt affect those items of course
Sick profile photo btw
My friend, I promise and I mean this in my heart of hearts. We didnt need 6 minute explanation telling us how you achieved the magic find. I felt like you were going to datamine the actual games coding to show us the magic find.
Trust me, we get it. You have a lot of magic find. Pleaes get to the point.
how the hell do you get your magic find that high in the first place?
I did a similar test a while back and I got 67 uniques over 40 runs with 85000 mf but I did clear the entrance area as well which probably got me about 5 to 10 extra uniques. Thing is there were many cases where Diablo didn't drop anything unique which to me it pretty much means that stacking lots of mf is especially useless on bosses, they're only useful for their high TC drops other than that elite packs tend to drop more consistently plus you can farm them on TZs.
Small sample size but the numbers aren't that far off from yours considering the ridiculous amounts of mf.
I think bosses benefit most from MF actually, since their base rate is already so high
how to get every runeword in the game? Farm keys, thats it, just farm keys, and sell, u wont need any mf for this
100 runs is just too small of a sample to get reliable results. But it’s an interesting topic.
What is the name of the song ??
"Better magic items", means with better stats?
Like more perfect items
Why do you use LoH with a foher? (the +% damage to demons doesn't work FoH OR Smite either)
Also, why not 2x 40% mf rings instead of 2 Nagels? Sure Nagel is more common and cheaper, but doesn't really offer that much in hell in return rather than attack rating (what you don't benefit from and -6 damage reduce)
I don't normally wear them, I had to remove gear to get the MF down to 200%. Chancies are normally on. As for the 40% MF rings, it's an online character and I haven't found any 40% rings, I can't justify the cost of trading for them for the extra 20% mf when i am already running 450% and then 700% on swap. diminishing returns tells me that at that stage 20% isn't doing much.
Damn is 20,000 possible? Definitely gonna watch this one
not legit though
No...
AND also isn't there a TOP cap for magic find ? So having 20k doesn't mean anything actually ?
Is dracs or wizspike still available ft?
Sorry I dropped everything that was left off in a free pub game
Very good research. How about 200% MF vs 200% MF and the MF boost secret?
Yeah I have been contemplating how effective that is also. I guess there is only one way to find out.
If I'm not mistaken, it's a 30% increase in uniques found not 42.67%; (75/107)x100%?
I mean Maths is definitely not my strong point, so it is highly possible i messed up somewhere on calculating the percentages lol
You are mistaken. The 42.67% increase is in reference to the number 75. The formula is (107-75)/75x100%
If you looked at things the other way around, a 30% decrease from 107 gives you 75. The formula remains the same (75-107)/107x100%
where you get that ridiculous charm ??
Hero edit
You can get over 10K MF without cheats/fake charms . That weird Souls easter egg that was found recently gives you MF, and if you let them do the trick long enough you'd end with basically infinite MF. Yet, it takes way too long time to be worth it. Maybe if you leave the game open and go to sleep, and you come back the next day, to clear the whole game of monsters. I see no real use, except for searching for unique rings. Maybe that way you can find most unique rings in 1 go.
i always stick between 200 und 300, more isnt rly worth it
Name of the background song?
Some friends of mine put it together. Don't think it has a name.
Good job!!!
Aren't there "caps" to magic find ? And there is LITERALLY 0 difference between 202% and 200% because you aren't breaking that cap ?
no, it's asymptotic
Do you still have a pair of dracs?
Yeah sure do. I ran it on non-ladder tho. So if that's where u play u are welcome to them
@@RNGesus_Channel Yep, I play only non ladder. Let me know when would be a good time for you to meet up and I'll make it happen. Thanks!
Just recently discovered your content, and I'm loving it! I'm a big fan of off meta builds. Keep up the great work!
@@timothyford836 if your free now I can jump on quick
@@RNGesus_Channel Sure, I'll be online shortly. What region?
@@timothyford836 US server 234 // 2
i mean there is a infinite MF "easeter egg" in the game already, You can have it on any char,
It took you a while sir gesus nice to see you your hair is kinda gay tho
It has always been my contention that anything beyond 250%mf is just window dressing and bragging rights. This is the opinion that I formed way back in the day, like 20 years ago (whenever LoD dropped and I got serious about playing).
And this is how it is today as well
200,000 vs 2,000,000 please!
If you're still around may I please have a pair of dracs, the highlords, and the shako?
Yeah of course, u around now?
@@RNGesus_Channel Yeah, which server do you play on?
US server RNG // 22
@@RNGesus_Channel are you on Eu servers?
@@RNGesus_Channel kk brt
De Gea, you have free time to play DR2 Hahaa
OH GREE AXE!
🤣 Had to be done
Chaos Sanctuary isnt very lucky place for me.
I have bad luck finding high runes in Chaos, but I do ok with mf
You should have done 100 runs with normal gear ;)
20125%😢
so in other words mf < multiplayer drop multiplier
i play near 35 000h or more and miss tyraels and Zod :/
The search continues for us both
If onlyyy the D cleaver was E
i could use a pair of dracs =)
I ran it non-ladder, which i didn't mention. If you still need it, I'm free now
Ive found 3 death phantoms no deathsweb
Crazy!
@@RNGesus_Channel yeah right its reverse
mf is good just dont sacrifice speed for it. 50 items in 100 runs that took an hour isnt as good as 500 runs that gave you 100 items in an hour.
MF is an extremly overrated stat in Diablo 2 as it hits the soft cap really fast while 200 mf is actually more than enough. As IL and TC play into account for most stuff you have to further look into the actual monsterlevel of the area and bosses to determine where you can drop certain items like Tyraels which If I remember correct can normally only drop from Diablo himself in CS. An other factor is the actual lootpool and base pool of the enemys from which they can choose the drops and for runes mf does nothing and you would want to look for enemys with lower base pools instead like ghosts for example that can't have certain base drops therefore have a lesser pool of options.
Player 1-8 and the actual number of players in the area furthermore decreases the chance to get a no drop roll which leads to more drops in total.
So rather than running lots of mf kill speed is the better option as long as you have some mf between 150 and 300 mf you are good to go.
Players 3 and Players 5 give a lot more than MF 200 to 500/700
This is true. I chose to do P1 because 50% of the players play online and cannot reliably set a players number. Players 1 seemed like the best baseline.
202% 😢
sadly u didnt do 0% MF :)
what u mean about monarch ?! its perfect ! 30/20 u can go to socked it
It needs to spawn with the jewellers mod to get the 4 sockets. Larzuk will just give it 2 unfortunately. One of the quirks of this games itemisation
42% increase "looking better"?... I think you may have forgotten no one can get anywhere near 20k mf... That's trash.
I mixed up my holy grail to includr any eth item that can roll eth .The last 3 azurath i have found have been from meph
I might to start doing some meph runs!
I found one from baal at the very beginning of season 8
You cut on the items too fast. We want to see how things roll. You even cut yourself off on the Crescent Moon.
Yeah that's me being paranoid about video length. I'll make sure to leave them on a bit longer next video. Thanks for the feedback, really helpful as i'm new to this
I dont think it helps cuz i have 300% mf scs on a horker single player and i find more online with a hammerdin foh din 700mf horker and mosiac then i have ever found on the single player barb
You should put the item stats up when your talking about them in the beginning for people that haven't memorized the rarest useless items. Not sure what asurass is. Maybe you were saying something else your accent is thicker than my pole dancing grandma
Haha well I can't do much about my accent, but I can definitely put up the stats!
@@RNGesus_Channel respectfully of course! I have been enjoying your videos.
if you know anything about the drop rates you know that unique items are well below 1%, so you DO want as much mf as you can possibly get. 10 runs with only a couple drops past rare VS 10 runs with several drops past rare proves this. try this with 100,000 mf.
No point to make this video. You cant never even get 20k MF on battle net. It doesnt make any sense. That like to do milion dmg on edit char, wtf? ... Also i saw at 12:22 how De Seis almost owned you, lol.
@@BlueMoonOwner Probably if somebody can open the "raw game data"
They would find out that the Magic find is capped to some maximum by file, is what i think.
Otherwise he would get very different result at the end.
Not legit
no shit dummy it's called using a hero editor to obtain a massive amount of magic find to present a case for having more magic find!
How dare you to pretend to be our lord and saviour of drops and random numbers...i'm deeply offended and need to pray to rngesus now and that's not you😝😝
Imagine still playing a version of diablo where the rolls on an item are how high the defense is lol project diablo 2 ftw. D2r is basic and lame
Is anyone gonna tell him about ghost rituals??... 20,000 mf is achievable..
most boring intro ever 😢
@@maxlamenace5280 and you have the most boring comment. So yay? 😂 And this is my first video of his I have watched. Seems pretty standard to explain what his goals were. His method was flawed but still interesting. Just wished he actually did more in depth. Different players set, multiple locations. But whatever
This is a pretty dumb test as everyone knows the sweetspot of mf in D2 lies around 350-400%, neglecting this is just making your whole experiment bullocks.
This was me wanting to know how much the mf falls off by putting an insane amount in. I needed a base line to compare it against and chose 200 for that. I prefaced the video by explaining that I run my normal online MF character with about 420% and you don't want to compromise speed for mf as the gains are not worth it. Which part did i neglect? It's ok that you didn't like the video, I know these aren't for everyone.
I really like D2r and your video.. Thank u for that.. but let me just please you to not use the picture of our lord Jesus Christ in this case.. I think he shouldnt be used like that..
How do you know what Jesus wants
That aint jesus, that RNGesus… cmon man….
@@Oshaghennesy the 3rd commandment: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
@@Oshaghennesy this is also the case with pictures of him
If anyone reading this is still giving away D2R gear, let me know. I'm interested. My ID is Endarire#1410.
Thankee!