Seeking some MF advice

I haven't played since before sunder charms and it seems some things have changed maybe. I used to MF on my Blizz Sorc until I got a Hammerdin and then pretty much dropped the sorc, However with sunders it seems the sorc can go anywhere and is seemingly faster than my Hdin...However my sorc has 5 cold skillers and the Hdin has no PComb's. My question is should I get some Pcombs and run Hdin or with the inclusion of sunders is the blizz sorc just as good?

Also, My sorc has 500+mf which is honestly overkill. I'm running the generic setup 3 piece

Tal's/occy/

Shako/Spirit/travs/2xFCR rings/Chancies, However I thought about getting a Dfathom and/or Nightwings and speeding up my runs a bit. Is this a good idea and how much minimum MF should I keep? Looking to optimize, I find some good stuff...sometimes but not often and the big finds have always eluded me (griffons/dfathom/

Ravenlore/etc) and I am starting to build a lot of new characters now so I'd like to increase my find rate if possible, any suggestions?

As a side note I have several "fully" built chars but may have low rolled items on them. Tesladin, Poison Necro, Hork (Trav) barb, Javazon. Looking to build Lightning or

Nova sorc, not sure which is better but both look really fun (probably going

Nova), Also really want a

Fissure druid and Mosaic Sin looks fun but I'm on Non-Ladder so the

Claws are hard to get at the moment.

I can't speak for Hammerdin as I disliked playing it to the point that I never tried gearing completely for it.

However, my weird Hydrorb (

Hydra plus

Frozen Orb instead of Blizzard plus

Frozen Orb basically) is an extremely effective finder hovering around 450. Even dropping

Hydra completely, my

Frozen Orb is still very effective with the sunder so you should be pretty amazing up to seven players while still farming anywhere you like. I also find it pretty fun to still play after three months of almost exclusive play.

[Edit]
Oh, I rock a

Harlequin Crest and

The Oculus both with

Ist when finding stuff. I do have a really bad Death Fathom and a

Nightwing's Veil, but I rarely do above three players making them overkill.
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you can easily drop to 300-350% mf if you get just a little more effective in killing.

Im playing

Nova sorc with griffon Infinity sojs 105% cast sunder charm 145% mf and i love it.

phantomotap wrote: 1 year ago

I can't speak for Hammerdin as I disliked playing it to the point that I never tried gearing completely for it.

However, my weird Hydrorb (

Hydra plus

Frozen Orb instead of Blizzard plus

Frozen Orb basically) is an extremely effective finder hovering around 450. Even dropping

Hydra completely, my

Frozen Orb is still very effective with the sunder so you should be pretty amazing up to seven players while still farming anywhere you like. I also find it pretty fun to still play after three months of almost exclusive play.

[Edit]
Oh, I rock a

Harlequin Crest and

The Oculus both with

Ist when finding stuff. I do have a really bad Death Fathom and a

Nightwing's Veil, but I rarely do above three players making them overkill.
[/Edit]

I only do solo games for some reason. I should probably find games to mf in but it's hard to find games that aren't full games to mf in. Which is honestly probably why I have a "hard" time finding things sometimes.

I've always considered clear speed to be more important than magic find. That's not to say that I don't carry some magic find (currently at 143%) but for me high rune drops are more important than finding unique items of which only a small few are actually worth the effort. The more times you can clear an area the more likely you are to get high rune drops and some unique items as well. Loading up on magic find often comes at a cost to clear speed while at the same time resulting in diminishing returns. Most of the unique items that were once highly valued in D2 such as

Harlequin Crest and even

Windforce bows are now common place. A

Windforce can be purchased for an

Ohm or less and a

Harlequin Crest can be gotten for free.

mhlg wrote: 1 year ago

...for me high rune drops are more important than finding unique items of which only a small few are actually worth the effort

While I agree, and have the same line of thinking generally, I do curse every time I see a blue/yellow

Diadem (though, those can be valuable/usable still),

Unearthed Wand,

Dimensional Shard and a few other ones Particularly early in a ladder, when values are still high and you haven't built up much Wealth yet.