With the recent change to Staff of Herding and all its components going from Normal (White) to Legendary (Orange), does it affect the drop chance for the Plan from Izual (Act4)?
I was reading before this change that you should take off any nephalem valors and any magic find gear to improve the chance to drop the plan, since it was a poorer quality item.
Now that the item has changed to legendary, do I need to stack Magic Find in order to get it to drop?
Also does it matter if I farm the plan on Normal Difficulty or Nightmare/Hell difficulty? Or do the plans drop in all difficulties?
Picture is from before the price change.
Best Answer
No, the way magic find works has no effect on items like the plans for staff of herding. Also taking off nephalem valor would not affect the outcome either.
The way magic find works is once the type of item that will drop is chosen it increases the chance that it will be a magic/rare/legendary/set item. But since the plans for staff of herding is most likely in its own category, it can not drop as anything other than it self and Magic Find will not effect its drop chance.
The difficulty you farm in does not matter towards your chance of getting them, it is just a question of how fast you can kill the boss or maybe get xp/usable loot while doing it.