Been doing some extensive testing over the past few days to make sure I’m not crazy here, but I’m running roughly 250% Magic Find and I have an Insight polearm on my Merc. It would appear, at least to me, that my Mercs Magic Find is absolutely not stacking with mine when getting kills, more specifically with Bosses/Uniques.
I understand that its all random chance, but I have been extensively testing this while farming many different Unique monsters, especially Mephisto, and when I get the kill, he tends to drop vastly better rarity items (usually 2-5 Rares and 1-2 Uniques) and when my Merc does, its usually almost always only Normal, Magic and maybe occasionally a Rare item… Uniques being very far and few between.
Can anyone help me out here to see if it may be bugged? If so, this needs to be fixed ASAP.
With Meph you don’t wanna be where your merc can attack him go to the circle by the red portal Meph will go to you and teleport to one of the sides and if you can’t teleport best to just keep merc dead while you kill Meph
There would have to be a huge pool of data to verify this. I have run hundreds of runs and cannot really tell a difference whether I kill or my merc does and I don’t try and wait until he kills. The extra 50% or whatever that he offers is negligible in the grand scheme of things.
Why not? if You can kill meph without having to trap him why would you avoid your merc tanking him?
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Because your merk magic find and yours doesn’t stack so why would you want your merc to kill him when he has less mf then you? I don’t use my Merc only to teleport then I let him die and kill bosses considering I have 533% mf so it’s better for me to kill the bosses then my Merc.
Ummm it is your MF if you kill and your mf + merc MF if merc kills
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Again as of right now it doesn’t stack. I get better items with him dead then with him alive.
According to whom? I have seen no difference. You would literally have to do hundreds of runs with you killing the boss versus your merc killing the boss in order to gain enough information to say whether or not MF is not stacking. I have been been MFing with my sorc pretty much nonstop since release and always have my merc and have found plenty of good gear.
I would like to see anywhere that says that it is bugged, otherwise I would say you have just been unlucky.
Exactly I run 100 runs everyday and I get better items when my Merc doesn’t even touch them compared to him touching them hey if he helps you out that’s fine but he don’t me. As of right now the insight doesn’t even work anyways so right now my Merc is only good for me to teleport to the rooms then let him die.
Just because you don’t think it stacks does not mean it is bugged. There are plenty of other things wrong with this game, it doesn’t need false bugs as well lol. So insight doesn’t work for you and his mf doesn’t work for you, sounds like something is wrong with your merc lol. Insight works perfectly fine for me and everyone I have played with. Sucks that it doesn’t work for you but don’t talk about bugs that arent there.
I’m just saying what I see buddy no need to be disrespectful anyways I’m out y’all have fun
I was wondering why drops for my merc were unusually crappy. It would make sense that mf isn’t stacking. Thanks OP!
Unless its bugged in d2r it does stack though.
There is no disrepect, all I am saying is that maybe you and the OP have had some bad luck with drops but that does not mean that it is bugged.
You said “Again as of right now it doesn’t stack” and “Because your merk magic find and yours doesn’t stack so why would you want your merc to kill him when he has less mf then you”
My statements were saying that unless we have a huge pool of data showing merc kills vs non-merc kills, it is impossible to say there is a bug. It is unfortunate that it seems like you are getting worse drops when merc kills but there is no statistical evidence proving a bug.
My only suggestion is just to say “I am having the same experience and have been wondering the same thing” and not “it is bugged or saying that MF does not stack.” Spreading falsities and rumors that aren’t verified does not help anyone.
Again, no disrespect intended.
I’m seeing the exact same thing. MF with merc seems to NOT be stacking on Xbox here.
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Well without my Merc I have 420 Mf with my Merc I have 420 mf so I see no stacking on PS4 so if it stacks for anyone that’s awesome but I’ma keep my Merc only for teleporting lol.
I am not sure, all I know is that theoretically it stacks. It won’t show it on your character screen, as that is what your MF is. There may be a bug and I am not saying there isn’t, just saying there isn’t a lot of evidence for it.
Your MF and your merc’s MF have stacked for the merc kills for the last 20 years. If it is not working that way on consoles, then it must be a bug, because they are not going to change something that big just in the console version.
Theoretically, yes, it is supposed to stack. I’m not wasting tons of time testing this. I simply get my target as close to dead as possible and let my Merc finish them off the last 2-5 seconds. What I’m saying is almost everytime I do this, the drops are terrible. I have upped my MF to 400% and he still rocks 20-30% on his items and that DOES make a difference with Boss drops when you are comparing those two percentages, especially when you do 50-100 runs. I only made the post to see if it may be bugged, like other things in this release of Diablo 2. There are a few things that have been bugged and I just thought that perhaps this was one of the things that might have gone undiscovered or unnoticed due to the amount of testing that would be required.
It appears to me, in my week of testing, that the Mercs MF no longer stacks. When I keep him dead instead of letting him run around killing, with his 20-30% MF thats supposed to be stacking with mine, I get far better drops from these targets I’m specifically targeting for MF purposes. I am once again rocking a solid 400% MF and my Merc is about 25% or so. His is supposed to stack with mine, like the OG Diablo 2. I just thought maybe there could be a chance it was bugged, like a few other things that have come up in the community. Its not a huge issue, just wanted to investigate and see what the people had to say, other than “You have bad luck”.
EDIT: These tests are solely to see if the Mercs MF stacks with that of the player when HE kills monsters or gets the last hit, as it should be, like OG Diablo 2. Its a science experiment for me and I would like feedback, so please be civil guys!
Honestly buddy I’m right there with you I have no good drops when the Merc kills aside from me just killing so I am thinking it is bugged. Reason why there’s alot of people saying to try to farm without your Merc on Reddit forums and such. But I’m happy to give you my feed back does the mf stack as of right now? No not on my console or my friends I run with. Hope this helps you with the feedback some more and the console were on is PS4
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