Why is there so much criticism? This video is just showing how much magic find he is not saying it’s good. Stuff like this is awesome and things we’ve all wanted to try for fun. Good job man ignore these idiots
Magic find actually has diminishing returns. I only worry about 200+ ish and it is more High runes that matter and not Uniques with the exception to shakos griffins etc. Not to mention he cant pick items up this is entirely idiotic.
@@drakthorzodin-son3643 Its been a year since I made my comment so i may not understand the context anymore, however I think what this videos purpose was to push something to the absolute most extreme in a game we all love for the sake of experimentation. I would personally never ever do this experiment, but i am intrigued that someone did. Therefore i am glad he made the video for my entertainment at his expense. I don't think he is suggesting to anyone that this is an optimal magic finding setup, in fact im sure he even recommends you DO NOT do this. I don't understand why anyone would criticize this experiment unless they are trying to take this opportunity to flex their ego and knowledge of Diablo 2.
@@x1PMac1x Yes, it makes her always drop quest drops, which are much better than regular drops. You kill her, then don't do ANYTHING ELSE: grab loot if needed, go into the portal that opens, talk to the NPC and go to act 2. Done. She's glitched forever for that character and will always drop her quest drops. I always save & quit after I get to act 2, but I've read before that it isn't necessary.
Unique items can be upgraded to their exceptional/elite versions. This is especially useful for Goldwrap as it gets one more item row while still matching your strength. The recipe is Tal + Shael + PDiamond + normal Goldwrap (base item 'heavy belt') --> upgraded Goldwrap (base item 'battle belt')
You can upgrade the gold wrap to exceptional for more belt slots to store more potion and tp scrolls and you should be able to wear it with the star you had
The incredible depth in detail got me stunned. I first played back in 2000, when I was 12. I’m 31 now and recently picked this back up with an old time friend. We’re having so much damn fun. I feel like a freaking kid again.
I had a bug in d2 once in a LAN game a year or two ago. I don't know what exactly happened but me as barbarian and my brother as sorceress bugged item drop somehow, and every item from every monster even usual weak white ones was a unique. No blue, yellow or green items. Only damn uniques with no repeats. We got every item in the game which the Nightmare difficulty could offer, it was awesome. I still have that character save btw.
This game is where the addiction all started. Played this game STEADY from 8-18 yrs old. 10 best gaming years of my life! diablo 3 is where my faith in blizz was stripped away. Anyways good video
Bro this was insanely cool to watch! me and my friend when we were young and dumb used to wonder what the max magic find was and what it would look like! 11 year old me would have pissed himself if he saw what you have done here today! GG Xtimus
@@hansgerber8654 How much MF you should get will always be a balancing act between kill speed and MF. You are right that up to 360% MF it makes sense to be more willing to sacrifice kill speed. But higher MF is almost always better as long as you aren't sacrificing kill speed to get it.
29.9.2020: The day when my almost entire life has been ruined.... TP scrolls in belt... And as many in the comment section, too have been playing this game since it came out....
Still amazed after all these years how they decided to actually put a naked female demon with boob physics in the game just after the 90s. What a time to be alive! The game mechanics on top of all the attention to detail created WAAAAAAAY to much nostalgia for this game. I still play it, though I try not to bounce my eyes along to act 1 as much as when I was younger. XD
Yea, in the time he waits till his low merc kills the boss, you would kill him 10 times with other builds.. Not to mention how often he obviously died. He can't tell me Meph didn't land at least 1 time a hit while he struggles that hard with his life.
"Optimal" according to what metrics? You want to have as much magic find as possible while still being able to clear enemies quickly without dying. You get quite a bit more set/unique drops going from 300 to 600 magic find. The idea is that you gain more magic find going from 0 to 250 than you do going from 250 to 500, so you get the biggest bang for your buck the first 2 or 3 hundred magic find. It's still optimal to juice the numbers up to 600 if it doesn't affect your clearing speed / survivability.
I always enjoyed my MF barb. Just slap some good main dps weapons on him, and have him duel wield 2x baba with ist socketed. Grab some gear that has MF on it but doesnt nerf you too much. Then go on a trip around the world: Eldritch > Shenk > Pindleskin > Council > Countess. Not ideal for the greatest drops but they all have mobs around them with pretty good item drops, a load of gold drops too, and none of them are too difficult to kill (council being exception based on their auras). Not the most effective farming (I think I got around 300mf), but its fast, relatively safe, and very easy. Ideal to find some stuff for trading or to give to toons or friends.
I feel like the amount time spend waiting for your merc would allow to complete at least a few extra Mephisto runs. I get that this is just a demonstration, but that took a long time for the the merc to kill meph.
Im going to explain it in a short way - As much MF as you can, without losing on kilspeed, is the correct answer. In first instance, game checks for: unique --> set --> rare --> and finally magic. On EACH stage, the whole MF is being checked, that means game check your MF 4 times - for unique, set, rare and magic quality. Furthermore, the best strategy for MF is to hunt champions / elite packs / superuniques in areas of lvl 82, 83, 84 ad 85 over and over again on players 1, because they will always drop 1-2 items, no matter what player count is. That being said, you need minimum damage, you are keeping your killspeed, and finally, you are maximizing ur chances with high MF. Thats why zerker barbs and sorcs are the best chars to MF, because they can stack over 700mf with good killspeed. There is also 2 very important factors - each item has its own rarity ( for example, tc87 items in higher lvl areas ( 82, 83, 84 and 85 ) such as archon staffs, sacred armos etc - they have a chance to drop from around 1:1k to 1:4k in MAGIC quality from elite monster) and UNIQUE quality of an item is the rarest, so most of the time its RNG and being lucky, but high MF always helps in a long run. The best way to check the rarity of an item is to use silospen calculator - dropcalc.silospen.com/item.php . I finished my holy grail in less than a year and my main char was sorc with MF from 600 to 820, depending if I wanted go lighting, blizz or fire ball.
Hey @@fatty180 :) Its kordipl from twitch. I found it in Ancient Tunnels, I had 820mf www.twitch.tv/kordipl/clip/ArtisticSingleFriseeDBstyle Took me few thousand AT runs, but if we count all my runs doing chaos, pits, AT, drifter cavern, Nithalak, WSK etc - probably 50k++ ? Theres no way to count it, but I can guess it was 50k+ since I started playing plugy ( January 18th 2018, finished grail on November 22nd 2018, had a few breaks meanwhile ) Tyraels was my 500th item, and I found my last 3 items within 48hours :)
Wow, if you did 50k runs in that time your life must be quite empty, or math is taking a hit. Out of the amount of hours passed since january 18 you'd have had to do 9,08 runs every waking hour of the year, assuming that you sleep eat and shit 8/24 hours of the day. Now the time is not impossible, since it gives you roughly 6 mins pr run. But if you have a job you'd have 3 mins pr run assuming you work 8 hours a day including travel time. Assuming a spouse takes on average 4 hours each day (atleast because he/she would get annoyed with the 24/7 gaming and sleeping) you'd have roughly 5 mins pr run. Work and girlfriend 1,3 mins pr run. This is all assuming that the only thing you do aside from these things is playing diablo. If you take a day off (16 hours), You have to make up 1,15 seconds on each of the 50k runs. It is possible but damn man, that is a tough life. @@kc96pl
@@Protagonistish I was playing nearly on all my days off work, so yeah, quite a bit ;) I took this challenge and Im happy I finished it. PS. I started focusing on my Grail more at the end of the May. Before that, I was casually / occassionally playing. Usually, my runs were taking about 1-2 minutes. You can do the maths now :D
You can actually open up your inventory then while you're dragging the item to put it into your inventory, the item is actually on your cursor, so you can exit a game with the item still on your cursor. When you join a new game, it will still be on your cursor and you'd be in town, so you can move it to stash then. Or just tp, then clear your inventory temporarily so you can pick stuff up. Makes much more sense to dedicate some space for picking stuff up though... Personally I'd go around with identifying scrolls, either in the belt, or a book of such scrolls. This way you can figure out if it's even worth the inventory space for an item. If not, simply drop it back on the ground and look at the next item.
@@MultiUltimater Just dedicate four spots for your cube and just put the items you wanna pick up in the cube. Only losing 28% mf. But this video is just a demonstration for a max mf build and isn't supposed to be efficient.
portal scrolls in the belt.... now it changes everything. When you put your portal on the last square, you are putting a safe to you come back town. nice, awesome.
If you ever get bored, load up Hero Editor. Easily craft items with 1700, 5000, 100,000 magic find. You will find out that it doesnt make much difference if at all with actually dropping rarer items.
Thank you for posting this video, it was not only interesting to see what an absurd amount of MF can do, it also showed me resources that taught me I was 9 MF off of the most MF you would want in a realistic magic finding build - which is 500mf.
funny thing : I had some 100500 runs Andi NM for SoJ`s and with 400mf almost everytime she drop green rings, time to time x2 at same run. When I drop MF from 400 to ~220-250 - almost everytime she droped unique rings (from x20 only 1 was SoJ). conclusion: no reason in high MF for unique items. Biggest MF need for set items ps: ye ye, my english lvl suck
I know this was just a concept build, but with the diminishing returns on MF wouldn't it be easier and less tedious to just kill the shit with your barb? if your merc gets the kill then cool but that shouldn't be the objective, matter of factly an act 2 merc that was decked out would allow for quicker kills
Damn I can't find any of my posts, my ebay profile no longer has the description, and my memory is shoddy - but this isn't the experience I recall with my MF Merc Barb. First of all, it was always the act II Merc (jab/Polearm) and killing stuff was not this difficult. I used it long before I was level 99. I don't see anything in this guide about using Necro wands to boost power and make the merc basically invincible (I guess it's totally different with a spellcaster). I am going to have to troll google until I can find my posts or gamefaqs on the matter because to disagree with my Mandalorian friend this is NOT the way. I played D2 for like... a decade. All that aside - nice video :D Just passing by because I'm totally stoked for the remaster of D2 :D
@@Asgardians3t You're talking about magic find like going beyond 300% does nothing. You get noticeably more set/uniques with 600% than you do 300%. Just don't sacrifice clearing speed for it. To add some numbers to the discussion, 300% magic find increases unique drops by 136% relative to no magic find whereas 600 increases it 176%. That's a solid increase.
Cool video man I’ll definitely try out an MF barb at some point. Probably won’t be using the last wish though, 5 high runes is a bit too pricy right now lol. Also it’s funny that an MF video has a thumbnail of a bunch of high runes on the floor (since mf doesn’t affect their drop chance).
lies item find is the same drop rate on what items that comes from the monsters as when you kill them, maxing Find Item will not give you a higher chance to grand uniq items, items are set to a drop rate based on monsters lvl if you'r playing on normal or hell and how many players you are in the game. besides these 3 things there is no way what so ever to gain more drop rate in the game magic find is also not for drop rate its for Identifying perfect rolled items...
xtimus im a fan of diablo 2 and i saw Almost all of your content and i know what you're been through, dont worry your still a cool guy, don't stop your diablo2 content just ignore the negativity around you,just do what you do best. what matters is not all of the people are the same, their are still a fan of you, im a fan of yours too. what im saying is don't get overwhelmed on what others says negative about you, just ignored them and you'll be fine. i still think you're a great guy xtimus. keep up the good work!. 😊😉👍❤❤❤❤
The most hard-to-posses thing in this build is not even items, that were used, but having lvl 98-99 BARB (!), that have lvl 98-99 merc. Precisely 146+ str to carry eth monarch LOL
This was JUST a demonstration of how this kind of blind maximizing build works out. Like the 80k lightning sorc builds that end up being unplayable garbage.
@delosombres Runes don't require mf on equipment. And watch Mr. Llama's video of Tyrael's Might dropping. Mf helps, but kill speed needs to be factored in to every equation. I have personally never had a Zod or T's Might drop, but I understand the math and have seen them drop for player who grind alot harder than me.
Couldn't a barb merc have two 6 socket axes? Also I can't believe that you didn't use antidote potions. They don't just cure youthey also give 50 or 100% (can't remember how much off hand) resistance for a few minutes.
@@Purriah Sry i missundestood you then, but thats because you think mf is = drop chance i see witch is not correct so i undestand why i missread you'r comment now tho :p
This game has always been quantity over quality. I would always laugh at the people trying to reach anything over like 350 mf.. just slows you down... get 300-350 and plow through shit, best way to magic find.
![[Guide] DO YOU HAVE TOO MUCH MAGIC FIND? - Diablo 2 Resurrected](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/B6Zgv4ywmF4/mqdefault.jpg)
Why is there so much criticism? This video is just showing how much magic find he is not saying it’s good. Stuff like this is awesome and things we’ve all wanted to try for fun. Good job man ignore these idiots
Magic find actually has diminishing returns. I only worry about 200+ ish and it is more High runes that matter and not Uniques with the exception to shakos griffins etc. Not to mention he cant pick items up this is entirely idiotic.
@@drakthorzodin-son3643 Its been a year since I made my comment so i may not understand the context anymore, however I think what this videos purpose was to push something to the absolute most extreme in a game we all love for the sake of experimentation. I would personally never ever do this experiment, but i am intrigued that someone did. Therefore i am glad he made the video for my entertainment at his expense. I don't think he is suggesting to anyone that this is an optimal magic finding setup, in fact im sure he even recommends you DO NOT do this. I don't understand why anyone would criticize this experiment unless they are trying to take this opportunity to flex their ego and knowledge of Diablo 2.
I swear people are so special these days. Good luck toolbagging for him.
Drakthorz Odin-son figures you don’t understand anything that I said. You must be confused and lost in life, good luck out there kid
Drakthorz Odin-son literally he says in the beginning this is for research.
Portal scrolls in belt.
MIND.BLOWN.
its like my entire life is a lie
easier to hotkey TP. belt spaces are precious.
Not the belt... The Bell... 😂😂
Ryan Berg hes maxing out his mf % sc inventory space.
@@moguldamongrel3054 oh right didnt even think of that.
7:44 that moment of silence...
Isn't there a trick to always have her drop with improved loot chances?
we all been there
@@x1PMac1x yes there is
@@x1PMac1x Yes, it makes her always drop quest drops, which are much better than regular drops. You kill her, then don't do ANYTHING ELSE: grab loot if needed, go into the portal that opens, talk to the NPC and go to act 2. Done. She's glitched forever for that character and will always drop her quest drops. I always save & quit after I get to act 2, but I've read before that it isn't necessary.
normal andy drops
Killing Mephisto is like installing some software back in 90's . 99% goes in no time and then you wait 5 minutes for that 1%.
Lol was thinking the same
Especially if you're using an act 2 merc. I would run out of gold doing mf runs bc he kept getting psn and dying walking away from mephisto
And why does he do that ?, at first thought it was to invite other players to finish him off but made zero sense :P
Mana shield
@@jordansmith1790 act 3... not 2.
2 is awesome
Unique items can be upgraded to their exceptional/elite versions. This is especially useful for Goldwrap as it gets one more item row while still matching your strength. The recipe is Tal + Shael + PDiamond + normal Goldwrap (base item 'heavy belt') --> upgraded Goldwrap (base item 'battle belt')
The Best Game of all Times...
remastered is coming soon too.
@@NoDramaJustALlama dont worry all diablo fans know that
@@NoDramaJustALlama Diablo 2 Resurrected
Needs more likes!
100% agree. Cant wait for D2R!! Gonna instantly make a magic find sorcerer to get gear for my Paladin
You can upgrade the gold wrap to exceptional for more belt slots to store more potion and tp scrolls and you should be able to wear it with the star you had
Good tip right there.
yea and trow in a potion in belt slot to remove poison on merc dooing anderial.. back in the day i had a find item barb much like this one..
Wow...thanks bud I nvr thought of that
Nice
The incredible depth in detail got me stunned. I first played back in 2000, when I was 12. I’m 31 now and recently picked this back up with an old time friend. We’re having so much damn fun. I feel like a freaking kid again.
I started playing past week and a half. Haven't played since 1.03. I love this game lol. Rebought it due to the rona lockdown
Just curious, how active is the game?
Chief J I’d say it’s been poppin lately. Corona reunited us
Ladder reset on the 5th so it is always popping for a month after reset imo.
You can use battle cry and reduce the damage you take by 20% +.
Dear GOD! Just played through the game again with a fresh Necro the other day and got about 65% magic find. Felt like I hit the dang lottery. LoL :)
I had a bug in d2 once in a LAN game a year or two ago. I don't know what exactly happened but me as barbarian and my brother as sorceress bugged item drop somehow, and every item from every monster even usual weak white ones was a unique. No blue, yellow or green items. Only damn uniques with no repeats. We got every item in the game which the Nightmare difficulty could offer, it was awesome. I still have that character save btw.
Could you share that save…
Sure, give me your discord or smth
im pretty sure ur friend used cheats ;)
The time it takes for the merc to merc those bosses.... Hell naw.
Wait, I thought everyone knew the scrolls could go in the belt?!?
Never really used it because I always just had the book. cool to know, though
I had a sorc that was like 1200% back in the day but she was using occy rings and some other questionable items lol
occy is a wand.
you must be thinking of "Nagel ring"
@@416wc >being this new
@@MillennialPosterChild name checks out
Occy rings were an old hacked item.
@@wackomanx that brings back memories. thanks man
This game is where the addiction all started. Played this game STEADY from 8-18 yrs old. 10 best gaming years of my life! diablo 3 is where my faith in blizz was stripped away. Anyways good video
Bro this was insanely cool to watch! me and my friend when we were young and dumb used to wonder what the max magic find was and what it would look like! 11 year old me would have pissed himself if he saw what you have done here today! GG Xtimus
300-400 mf is perfect for drops cos kill speed wont reduce so more kills more drops :)
the mf increase curve drops at around 360 ... so i'd go for at least that amount for optimal mf ... but also not much beyond that
not to mention 1700mf is a waste of so many runes etc.
yes its a wast cuz wont count over 360 and u gonna get weaker like hell
@@hansgerber8654 How much MF you should get will always be a balancing act between kill speed and MF.
You are right that up to 360% MF it makes sense to be more willing to sacrifice kill speed. But higher MF is almost always better as long as you aren't sacrificing kill speed to get it.
@@tiagohayashi9780 lol'd @ this comment
Hey X, happy New Year!
Andy isn’t quest locked she is dropping gold my friend
29.9.2020: The day when my almost entire life has been ruined.... TP scrolls in belt... And as many in the comment section, too have been playing this game since it came out....
2:20 But lvl 99 merc is illegal.
You should hire a normal iron wolf, not hell iron wolf. I believe normal iron wolf with lvl 98 has the enough strength for an eth monarch.
@@孙林可i guess he meant, mercs cant go up to 99, because they are always 1 lvl behind you (99-1 = 98)
Not true, mercs can reach player level.
@@li-la.de. Mercs can reach player level, but max merc level is 98.
Thats a good point max is 98
I made a build with 20,000% magic find. And Mephisto dropped enigmas and perfect griefs.
hahaha
lmfao
MUCH BETTER quality of D2 videos!
Lol this is Xtimus's alt
You didn’t quest bug Andy. She shouldn’t drop coins.
fun build but next time up the Goldwrap so you can hold the 4th potion in each slot
probably doesnt have 2nd mods on charms either..
Before going to the boss, drink 4 antidote potions from the shop that last for 2 minutes and get you a lot of poison resistance
when hes like a hit away from killing Mephisto and he covers the screen with a 1999 GIF of items pocketed with ist runes
Still amazed after all these years how they decided to actually put a naked female demon with boob physics in the game just after the 90s. What a time to be alive! The game mechanics on top of all the attention to detail created WAAAAAAAY to much nostalgia for this game. I still play it, though I try not to bounce my eyes along to act 1 as much as when I was younger. XD
No she doesn’t. After checking she s merely animated.
For sure one of those runs the boss died to Thorns, the merc spell wasn't even close
This is painful to watch...
Yea, in the time he waits till his low merc kills the boss, you would kill him 10 times with other builds..
Not to mention how often he obviously died. He can't tell me Meph didn't land at least 1 time a hit while he struggles that hard with his life.
@@kenmasters5509 nub doesn't even know how to use antidote pots...lmao
@@kenmasters5509 yes obviously dude that's why at the beginning he said this build IS NOT optimal
Are you people infants? I noticed right away the video was just about maxing out MF for Fun/Experimentation.
@@kenmasters5509 Nobody asked.
nicely done Xtimus! Still going strong in 2019!
Nice 😄 next try to do same but with extra gold, must see how crazy stacks will drop 😄
Just found out that you have already done extra gold video, fun stuff
crispy fried onions how do I upgrade the belt ?
Roberto Nuno you need to find a specific rune and use the cube to upgrade it to its exceptional/elite version.
I used have a warcry gf baba and rip trav runs
Roberto Nuno Go to the website "ArreatSummit", bookmark that shit. Its the best informative D2 site out there I believe
Looks like ~300%mf is a good optimal and easily obtainable number to be at for unique items according to that chart.
"Optimal" according to what metrics? You want to have as much magic find as possible while still being able to clear enemies quickly without dying. You get quite a bit more set/unique drops going from 300 to 600 magic find. The idea is that you gain more magic find going from 0 to 250 than you do going from 250 to 500, so you get the biggest bang for your buck the first 2 or 3 hundred magic find. It's still optimal to juice the numbers up to 600 if it doesn't affect your clearing speed / survivability.
I always enjoyed my MF barb. Just slap some good main dps weapons on him, and have him duel wield 2x baba with ist socketed. Grab some gear that has MF on it but doesnt nerf you too much. Then go on a trip around the world: Eldritch > Shenk > Pindleskin > Council > Countess. Not ideal for the greatest drops but they all have mobs around them with pretty good item drops, a load of gold drops too, and none of them are too difficult to kill (council being exception based on their auras). Not the most effective farming (I think I got around 300mf), but its fast, relatively safe, and very easy. Ideal to find some stuff for trading or to give to toons or friends.
Leap has a stun / knockback effect that I KNOW works on council, which gives the merc plenty of time to clean house
5:17 Lol
Nice drops, thank you for posting.
Yeah. Very nice drops 😂
God it took that merc forever to do like 100 damage lmao
I feel like the amount time spend waiting for your merc would allow to complete at least a few extra Mephisto runs. I get that this is just a demonstration, but that took a long time for the the merc to kill meph.
Best game ever. I love maximising the possibilities of this game in a legit way.
yeee
They wonder why people bot and buy items, ain't nobody got time for that.
@randomguy8196 what's an inventory hack? What would that have to do with this?
@randomguy8196 I wasnt even going to respond.. but I wanted to tell you "that's stupid!"
@randomguy8196 why would you play anywhere other than ladder, you loser...
Im going to explain it in a short way - As much MF as you can, without losing on kilspeed, is the correct answer. In first instance, game checks for: unique --> set --> rare --> and finally magic. On EACH stage, the whole MF is being checked, that means game check your MF 4 times - for unique, set, rare and magic quality. Furthermore, the best strategy for MF is to hunt champions / elite packs / superuniques in areas of lvl 82, 83, 84 ad 85 over and over again on players 1, because they will always drop 1-2 items, no matter what player count is. That being said, you need minimum damage, you are keeping your killspeed, and finally, you are maximizing ur chances with high MF. Thats why zerker barbs and sorcs are the best chars to MF, because they can stack over 700mf with good killspeed. There is also 2 very important factors - each item has its own rarity ( for example, tc87 items in higher lvl areas ( 82, 83, 84 and 85 ) such as archon staffs, sacred armos etc - they have a chance to drop from around 1:1k to 1:4k in MAGIC quality from elite monster) and UNIQUE quality of an item is the rarest, so most of the time its RNG and being lucky, but high MF always helps in a long run. The best way to check the rarity of an item is to use silospen calculator - dropcalc.silospen.com/item.php . I finished my holy grail in less than a year and my main char was sorc with MF from 600 to 820, depending if I wanted go lighting, blizz or fire ball.
Kordian Czajkowski hello where place did u found tyraels might, with which character, how much magic find,how many runs u did?
Hey @@fatty180 :) Its kordipl from twitch. I found it in Ancient Tunnels, I had 820mf www.twitch.tv/kordipl/clip/ArtisticSingleFriseeDBstyle Took me few thousand AT runs, but if we count all my runs doing chaos, pits, AT, drifter cavern, Nithalak, WSK etc - probably 50k++ ? Theres no way to count it, but I can guess it was 50k+ since I started playing plugy ( January 18th 2018, finished grail on November 22nd 2018, had a few breaks meanwhile ) Tyraels was my 500th item, and I found my last 3 items within 48hours :)
Wow, if you did 50k runs in that time your life must be quite empty, or math is taking a hit. Out of the amount of hours passed since january 18 you'd have had to do 9,08 runs every waking hour of the year, assuming that you sleep eat and shit 8/24 hours of the day. Now the time is not impossible, since it gives you roughly 6 mins pr run. But if you have a job you'd have 3 mins pr run assuming you work 8 hours a day including travel time.
Assuming a spouse takes on average 4 hours each day (atleast because he/she would get annoyed with the 24/7 gaming and sleeping) you'd have roughly 5 mins pr run. Work and girlfriend 1,3 mins pr run.
This is all assuming that the only thing you do aside from these things is playing diablo. If you take a day off (16 hours), You have to make up 1,15 seconds on each of the 50k runs.
It is possible but damn man, that is a tough life. @@kc96pl
Necro is still better for it.
@@Protagonistish I was playing nearly on all my days off work, so yeah, quite a bit ;) I took this challenge and Im happy I finished it.
PS. I started focusing on my Grail more at the end of the May. Before that, I was casually / occassionally playing. Usually, my runs were taking about 1-2 minutes. You can do the maths now :D
Проорал с мега пафасной заставки, как будто игру престолов включил😂
Then your inventory is full of charms so you cant pick anything up
You can actually open up your inventory then while you're dragging the item to put it into your inventory, the item is actually on your cursor, so you can exit a game with the item still on your cursor. When you join a new game, it will still be on your cursor and you'd be in town, so you can move it to stash then.
Or just tp, then clear your inventory temporarily so you can pick stuff up.
Makes much more sense to dedicate some space for picking stuff up though...
Personally I'd go around with identifying scrolls, either in the belt, or a book of such scrolls.
This way you can figure out if it's even worth the inventory space for an item.
If not, simply drop it back on the ground and look at the next item.
@@MultiUltimater Just dedicate four spots for your cube and just put the items you wanna pick up in the cube. Only losing 28% mf. But this video is just a demonstration for a max mf build and isn't supposed to be efficient.
@@Jsphserna I agree as per "Makes much more sense to dedicate some space for picking stuff up though... "
Mephisto: why you turn your back on me and let that funny mage cast strange spells on me? Ah you want my gears.
I didn't even know you could portal scroll in the belt...
@Eviscerate Been playing for 20 years, still didn't know lol.
portal scrolls in the belt.... now it changes everything.
When you put your portal on the last square, you are putting a safe to you come back town.
nice, awesome.
Cant believe your not playing pd2. Literally star struck. Pd2 is everything we have been asking for and more.
Except for stable servers!!
whats pd2?
If you ever get bored, load up Hero Editor. Easily craft items with 1700, 5000, 100,000 magic find. You will find out that it doesnt make much difference if at all with actually dropping rarer items.
beside item drop, and magic find, there are also mod rolls. we notice these controllers variables back in old days and now they are all shown in poe
You have thorns damage affecting enemies when they hit you. There’s a chance you are getting the last hit FYI
u forgot to switch weapons on mephs death
U can up the goldwrap to have additional pot spaces
BRUTAL DUDE!! way to power thru it haha, gotta be a pain to not finish em off while ur merc paws at em!
Thank you for posting this video, it was not only interesting to see what an absurd amount of MF can do, it also showed me resources that taught me I was 9 MF off of the most MF you would want in a realistic magic finding build - which is 500mf.
Forgot about putting tps in belt. That’s such a good space saver
funny thing : I had some 100500 runs Andi NM for SoJ`s and with 400mf almost everytime she drop green rings, time to time x2 at same run. When I drop MF from 400 to ~220-250 - almost everytime she droped unique rings (from x20 only 1 was SoJ).
conclusion: no reason in high MF for unique items. Biggest MF need for set items
ps: ye ye, my english lvl suck
Thanks for the good info!
I know this was just a concept build, but with the diminishing returns on MF wouldn't it be easier and less tedious to just kill the shit with your barb? if your merc gets the kill then cool but that shouldn't be the objective, matter of factly an act 2 merc that was decked out would allow for quicker kills
Yes and the player could do more runs in a shorter amount of time which would make up for the %mf loss.
Both of you didn't listen to or read the disclaimer at the beginning of the video
Damn I want to get back into diablo 2 but I haven't played since 2003. I wouldn't know where to start.
i made tacos last night New ladder season just reset so everyone is starting fresh!
450mf seems to be fine. RNG still reigns supreme.
I also was always running 400-450 MF, seems to be a good spot. But was nice to see 1700% MF as experiment.
During the fight with mephy the auto CC captions it as [Applause] lol
But can u kill andy with 1 skeleton
Okay I'll start today and in a year I'll have a level 99 Barb and merc 😆
You got it yet?
@@randomares456 Kek
@@randomares456 lmao
lvl 99 mercenary? JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA.
So... a video about using a hero editor, cool
You can potion your merc btw, there's also a hot key.
Damn I can't find any of my posts, my ebay profile no longer has the description, and my memory is shoddy - but this isn't the experience I recall with my MF Merc Barb. First of all, it was always the act II Merc (jab/Polearm) and killing stuff was not this difficult. I used it long before I was level 99. I don't see anything in this guide about using Necro wands to boost power and make the merc basically invincible (I guess it's totally different with a spellcaster).
I am going to have to troll google until I can find my posts or gamefaqs on the matter because to disagree with my Mandalorian friend this is NOT the way. I played D2 for like... a decade.
All that aside - nice video :D Just passing by because I'm totally stoked for the remaster of D2 :D
This was an example of absolute max. Act3 merc holds a shield, so it gets more MF
Cool video, I love what you did here. D2 is life, but this shows that even with 1700 mf, the game still drops nothing haha :P
At that point, 200% mf with fast clear speed would probably be the best
@@SuppositionalBox ive found out from personal experience that the ideal MF with fast clear speed is 300%
@@Asgardians3t You're talking about magic find like going beyond 300% does nothing. You get noticeably more set/uniques with 600% than you do 300%. Just don't sacrifice clearing speed for it. To add some numbers to the discussion, 300% magic find increases unique drops by 136% relative to no magic find whereas 600 increases it 176%. That's a solid increase.
Do this on Path of Diablo, you can get way more of due to corrupting items to max sockets based on the base item type.
Path of Diablo is garbage now.
Assassin is like am I a joke to you. Because they can dual wield claws and Wrist blades and katar. And they can also be socketed.
Hah, I knew about belt scrolls Day one! mostly because I do this annoying little thing called Reading the manual.
great d2 vids bro drops coulda been better but its how it goes sometimes
oh you're running PlugY, that makes sense with the version number hadn't any letters
you know the build is slow when you use town portal to reset the mefisto
I didn't quite catch why the merc needs to make the kill - does the full mf stack get applied when the merc kills meph? Thanks in advance
If you kill it it's only your mf. if merc kills it's his mf plus yours
I know back then I uses my hybrid sorc 300-600mf was actually good what I found
Think I had 540 and was not bad
Cool video man I’ll definitely try out an MF barb at some point. Probably won’t be using the last wish though, 5 high runes is a bit too pricy right now lol. Also it’s funny that an MF video has a thumbnail of a bunch of high runes on the floor (since mf doesn’t affect their drop chance).
Do the kill once, then just skip to the last second of a kill on the rest. This got boring to fast.
That's exactly the point, the video shows that this build is not viable and boring to play.
nice, love your videos
keep it bro
Hi Xtimus
What is your strength, dexterity and Vitality requirement for Frenzy barb build for Acts 1, Acts 2 and Act 3 - Act 5?
I did the same build before but instead of double swing and frenzy, I did max whirlwind and max item find. Item find all unique monsters
lies item find is the same drop rate on what items that comes from the monsters as when you kill them, maxing Find Item will not give you a higher chance to grand uniq items, items are set to a drop rate based on monsters lvl if you'r playing on normal or hell and how many players you are in the game. besides these 3 things there is no way what so ever to gain more drop rate in the game magic find is also not for drop rate its for Identifying perfect rolled items...
Everybody knows opening a TP before the kill nerfs your drop
wat 🤣
Oooof! Non-bugged Andy Drops. RIP
sheeeeesh that luck on the drops though!!! eth treks and eth andy out of just 48 uniques is absolutely insane
xtimus im a fan of diablo 2 and i saw Almost all of your content and i know what you're been through, dont worry your still a cool guy, don't stop your diablo2 content just ignore the negativity around you,just do what you do best. what matters is not all of the people are the same, their are still a fan of you, im a fan of yours too. what im saying is don't get overwhelmed on what others says negative about you, just ignored them and you'll be fine. i still think you're a great guy xtimus. keep up the good work!. 😊😉👍❤❤❤❤
That 1st andariel kill with 2 blues, lol
The most hard-to-posses thing in this build is not even items, that were used, but having lvl 98-99 BARB (!), that have lvl 98-99 merc. Precisely 146+ str to carry eth monarch LOL
I wonder, would it be better to have lightning or fire merc? Or is damage pathetic anyway so does not matter much?
Hi Xtimus
Do you have normal to Hell walkthrough for 1700 % Magic Find - Highest Possible Magic Find in Diablo 2?
Did we forget about diminishing returns?
Quanity over time matters more than MF.
2nd this.
This was JUST a demonstration of how this kind of blind maximizing build works out. Like the 80k lightning sorc builds that end up being unplayable garbage.
@@operator8014 word.
Did he say the merc must get the killing blow in order for the magic find to work?
In order for the merc MF to apply yes. The merc must get the last hit. The characters mf always applies.
And now whos experience curve from level 89 to 99
Great video on showcasing how that much mf is a waste of time. 300-500 people; you'll get everything in the game with enough time.
@delosombres Runes don't require mf on equipment. And watch Mr. Llama's video of Tyrael's Might dropping. Mf helps, but kill speed needs to be factored in to every equation. I have personally never had a Zod or T's Might drop, but I understand the math and have seen them drop for player who grind alot harder than me.
Hi Xtimus
What is the players setting playing for 1700 Magic Find?
Couldn't a barb merc have two 6 socket axes?
Also I can't believe that you didn't use antidote potions.
They don't just cure youthey also give 50 or 100% (can't remember how much off hand) resistance for a few minutes.
yes and it helps the effectiveness of all them health pots hes burning, even regular rejuv would be better
Remember when you had to sacrifice stats for better drops? D3 really screwed up by removing that mechanic. It made gear far more interesting!
Devin Jones no I don’t remember this. I would just mf with like 300% and ended up being extremely rich
@@Purriah dont even try defend diablo 3 or dig a grave ^^
@@Gthisen4400 why would i defend diablo 3? it's complete garbage in every way. i'm talking about mfing in d2.
@@Purriah Sry i missundestood you then, but thats because you think mf is = drop chance i see witch is not correct so i undestand why i missread you'r comment now tho :p
very cool. Was your andy glich bug'd ? EDIT: nvm I see she was not wen I see the stanima potion drop.
This game has always been quantity over quality. I would always laugh at the people trying to reach anything over like 350 mf.. just slows you down... get 300-350 and plow through shit, best way to magic find.
I didnt get why the merc should kill him?
has grief and last wish weapons but doesnt up the belt for 16 pots?!?! however, TP scrolls in belt = mind blown.
Don´t forget to questbug Andariel !