Tell us your superstitions for better loot

I'm curious what weird superstitions you have when you play D2R to get better loot.
For example:
• Sometimes if I'm getting good loot in one zone, I will stay in that game and go to other zones instead farming a new game in the same one.
• Sometimes I'll run through a non-lvl 85 zone I haven't been to in a long time because I think the Devs hide secret extra MF there.
• Sometimes I stand on my head for 15 minutes until my vision gets blurry, then I clap 3 times and yell "Shoes are just gloves for your feet!" before I start a new game.

What weird things do you do?

I am slowly getting convinced that Nilhathak refuses to drop a

Key if I wear

Nature's Peace. But if I don't he lights my ass up...

new game. new char, reveals more new loot than old char.

If I have a round number for magic find, I'll get better stuff.

I think my necro will be at 200 mf sharp soon, so Griffon's will keep falling from the trees.

More generally I aim at "at least" round numbers even for life, mana...

I've also always felt that the more monsters you kill at once, the better loot you find.

Take a month (or longer) hiatus from D2 farming. Come back and get tons of goodies from only a few hours of pits/Chaos/whatever. Happens enough times for me to notice.

But farm almost every day? Forget it. I'm lucky if a cute rare drops.

Appaaarently, if you run around with a 17/17/7 anni, you get bonkers drops.

Though I have yet to confirm that myself. Still on the list.

If you rub

Malah's hunch 3 times, there's a better chance of a Lower Res Lvl 2

Wand.

Necrarch wrote: 2 years ago

If I have a round number for magic find, I'll get better stuff.

Spoiler

none. it's rng

Not something "I do", but just a suspicion. I feel like there is some sort of themed loot rotation. Back in February and March last year I got 6 Jahs running WSK and Trav. Then a few months later in July and August, managed to get 8 Surs from Trav. And now most recently, I had never gotten a

Cham before, and just got 2 within the last week. Hard to shake the thought that there's some sort of pool of items that has a better chance to drop, and the pool changes every few weeks/months. But I digress, as I realize it's probably just RNG messing with me.

hork corpses before revealing loot on the Ground

Kill every single monster on the map before moving on to the next area. Might also just be OCD I guess...

Peaceful_Leaf wrote: 2 years ago

Necrarch wrote: 2 years ago

If I have a round number for magic find, I'll get better stuff.

Spoiler

Silly mf numbers.png

That's actually probably why I actually do this. Even have life and mana "breakpoints" I want to reach on my chars.

As for killing every single monster, same here.

Well, I suppose I am a kind of mad man ^^

I always turn off the option to see what loot falls to the Ground until I killed every monster around. Then I turn it on.

knightfall1985 wrote: 2 years ago

I always turn off the option to see what loot falls to the Ground until I killed every monster around. Then I turn it on.

By doing so you may miss some of the valuable loot which got covered by the junk (in dense areas, such as the cow level). It's better to check the drops when the screen is not cluttered yet.

I mainly do Travi runs. Not that much loot there…

MagicPants wrote: 2 years ago

I've also always felt that the more monsters you kill at once, the better loot you find.

This!! I have the same feeling when I reveal a lot of stuff at once.

I've revealed so many charms and got only a lot of

Charsi food.
Therefore, I collected exactly 40 small charms and revealed them at once. And: "Tadaa...!!" I received five usable charms, e.g. one with 20 life and 12 mana and another with 7mf + 11pr.

Maybe that's just coincidence, maybe not

Khegan wrote: 2 years ago

Take a month (or longer) hiatus from D2 farming. Come back and get tons of goodies from only a few hours of pits/Chaos/whatever. Happens enough times for me to notice.

But farm almost every day? Forget it. I'm lucky if a cute rare drops.

This is exactly what I've noticed too.

If I have some something that I need to do in real life that I've been procrastinating while playing D2, if I go do it and then come back to play, I'll often be rewarded right away with a great drop.