What should I wear to maximize my Magic Find? What specific items are ideal for a Magic Find-optimized build? Does any one particular class have better class-specific items with increased Magic Find?
Diablo – How to maximize the Magic Find
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The AH is now offline, so there's no way to check what crafting materials go for anymore. New ones are also Account bound, so you can't even trade them even if you wanted to.
It depends on what crafting material you are looking for. If you're looking for Subtle Essence and Fallen Tooth, your best bet is to farm as much gold as you can, and buy it from the auction house.
Currently, the crafting materials are selling for 20 and 45 gold, respectively. That is drastically cheaper than buying shop items, or even farming them yourself.
Source: this answer.
So, the answer fluctuates. In the event that the crafting material cost on the auction house rises above the cost of buying an equivalent magical item you can salvage, buy it from shops. In either case, gold find helps you.
For magic find, it will also depend on how long it takes you to find and gather magical items. The time investment will fall somewhere between the other two scenarios. It will take less time to find items you can salvage than it would to gather 1000 gold, but quite a bit longer than to gather just 25 or 100 gold.
The only time you want to really find magic items is when crafting material cost on the auction house goes above the cost of shop items. Which, at that point, becomes a stable economy for you on it's own. Buy magic items from shops, salvage, post crafting materials on auction house. Repeat. Use extra gold to buy items to salvage materials for yourself.
So, short answer, from least to most time investment, using Subtle Essence as an example:
- If: Crafting materials are dirt cheap (Costs less than you would get from selling magical items): Sell magic items and buy from auction house.
- If: Crafting materials are more expensive (more than selling your magic items) and less expensive than buying items from shops for salvage:
- If: Gathering requisite gold will take longer than finding magical items: Find magical items.
- Else Gather gold and buy from auction house.
- If: Crafting materials are more expense than buying magical items from shops: Buy items from shops, salvage materials, post on auction house for profit until price drops below viability.
Credit to LessPop_MoreFizz for the original information and inspiration.
Judging from the Blizzard explanation of shared magic find, the value is averaged based on what your character sheet displays. I'm assuming that they were not over-simplifying the system w/ those posts.
Given this, It is better to spread MF across the party.
Let's say we're running a party of 4 players. Let's also assume that diminishing returns kicks in at 40 MF (I don't know the formula).
If everyone in the party has +30 MF, they should all see +30% on their character sheets. It all averages nicely, and loot is dropping at a +30% MF level.
Now, let's say one person has +120 MF, while everyone else has zero. This single player is going to be subject to diminishing returns, and their character sheet MF level will be lower (let's say it ends up being 80 MF). At this point everyone in the party only gets +20% MF; no good!
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Maximum soft capacity for magic find in 2.0.1. remains at 300%...Soft capacity is the maximum % of magic find that player can accumulate with items on him and follower,it does not include buffs and bonuses.
Hard capacity is calculated maximum possible magic find.Which was at 680% prior to the 2.0.1. Since then paragon levels don't reward magic find anymore,nephalem valor is removed from the game and monster power level doesn’t increase magic find(it does give you better legendary items but it is not calculated in magic find) we are left with:
Making hard cap for MF 355%
This ~50% MF reduction would seem drastic,but i doesn't really matter that much anymore since MF in 2.0.1. is almost useless because your magic find now affects :
For more info on gear slots and items you should check Wikwocket’s answer which stays pretty much valid except for nephalem valor. Writing more detailed and updated list of best possible items for magic find really doesn’t matter anymore,even if you managed somehow to get more than 300% MF from items it wouldn’t count,and i really doubt someone would sacrifice all the stats for mere max 35% MF on Legendary/Set items.
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