Magic Find Gear Swapping
Since release it has become an increasingly common practice to keep a Magic Find (MF) set in your inventory, and swap it in shortly before a kill. Philosophically we don't have a problem with the practice. While players getting more Magic
Find for their kills isn't a game breaker for us, many players have said they don't enjoy doing it but feel the benefit is too large to ignore. Since the call for a solution really comes from all of you, we'd like to invite you to chime in with your opinion on what the solution could be.
It's worth keeping in mind that if we do implement a method to alleviate gear-swapping in combat, we'll simultaneously be looking at ways for players to get an added MF bonus to compensate.
Here are the solutions we're currently considering, and would appreciate your feedback and opinion on what seems the most reasonable for you, and why:
Option 1: Set a Magic Find Cap
Option 2: Slowly Adjust Magic Find Over Time
Option 3: Use your average MF% or your lowest MF% of the last 5 minutes
Option 4: Zero-Out Your MF% for 3 Minutes After Swapping Gear
Option 5: Gear Swapping Interacts with Nephalem Valor
While we're having our own discussions and tests of how well these options could work, we’re interested to hear your thoughts. We’d mainly like to hear which approaches you like, if there are any specifics you like or don't like about it, and why. Having the context of how this affects you personally really helps us.
We're going to be locking down comments in this article to focus feedback to one location, so please head to the forum thread link below to discuss.
Info:
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/5338426/Magic_Find_Gear_Swapping-03_07_2012
1k DPS still not enough? I thought the stats would be perfect for a barbarian.
