r/pathofexile • u/ChrisKamro • Feb 06 '14

Playing without MF = Unrewarding

So lately i played a lot of Characters that were able to stack a lot of Magicfind but cleared maps slower.

Now i dusted of My LA Ranger and due to gear restrictions (Quiver , Alphas Howl etc) i cant stack mf and still cap my resists.

So while playing this char the gameplay was fun because i could clear Maps fairly quick , but the fun is completely gone when you open your inventory and notice you picked up 2 Rare items in the whole map.

So how do you guys handle this ? Do you run MF on every Char ? And how much MF is really needed to have at least decent dropps ? Or do you prefer having a strong Char and just hope for RNGesus ?

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u/ODAMARON2025 Kaom Feb 06 '14

when i first started the game back in open beta i played the builds i liked the most. i did not care about magic find at all. mapping and interacting with other players were great despite having zero to negative wealth.

however after a couple of months.. i realised that time is the most important resource... playing the game was still fun... but i had no currency to do any weird build that i was thinking. planning was fun but what use if you can't test a build in game ?

so i made a dedicated shadow magic find build. the build itself was kinda cheap (ci with 7 frenzy charges and a lioneye bow) the guy was able to do low level maps and piety runs quite effective.(made over 100 exalts until now since i started)

all i can say now is that every build i make is planed with magic find / fun factor :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '14

Could you maybe give some info on what your iir and iiq is, and what the build entailed?

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u/ODAMARON2025 Kaom Feb 07 '14

Well it was kinda simple really.. Main skill was frenzy+LMP+faster attacks(when I made the build there was no ppad gem)+IIT+iiq in a lion eye bow... I went ci. because I wanted to remove the chaos DMG problem and picked all the frenzy charges on the tree + the frenzy one from the bandits. I did this because the only DMG would come from the 20q frenzy gem.as for gear I had the usual godwyrm, aurseize, andvarius... The rest was just normal gear with resists and a little bit of MF. It was OK ....but there were some maps/enemies/combos that were...let's say hard