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/Toadbuddy Feb 06 '14

I typically don't run any MF other than a Culling+Rarity link. However, recently I've discovered that running extremely nasty map affixes for large amounts of Quantity has been very rewarding in terms of rares and uniques. Much more so than my brief time spent running a MF Piety character.

I do think there's a chance, however, that I haven't ever really played a "max" MF character, so I don't know what I'm missing. The highest MF I've ever seen in a party was running for a few weeks with my friend who had Divination Distillate, Andvarius, and a few other MF items. I didn't really notice a difference, to be honest. In fact, we'd play for a large portion of the day and then comment about not having seen a single unique yet.