What routes do you usually take? Do you take a merc with you? What Magic Find number do you hold while MFing? All that sort of stuff.
None. Magic find is useless, Clear time is more important in every aspect.
The most valuable items are not affected by Magic find, The Only Exception being the unique diadem, griffons.
You will make more money clearing cows and picking up Rune word bases then you ever will running around with 3,000 magic find
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Generally I start with Eldritch/Shenk, then I go kill Pindle, then I run Chaos, then I do Pits. Then I find nothing, feel like I’ve wasted my life, exit the game and reload it.
Edit: I only MF because I want to find these items eventually:
Tyrael’s Might
Death’s Fathom
Ormus’ Robes
Windforce
Grandfather
(2nd Griffs)
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This is not true. The most valuable droppable items in the game are generally rares, which are directly affected by MF. There’s also tons of valuable unique items other than Griffons. It’s easy to keep great clear speed and still have 200-300 mf. If runeword bases are the goal then yes, zero MF is the way to go.
My current path is currently:
Countess (crafting runes)
The Pit (since its easy and lvl 85)
Trav
Meph
Ancient Tunnels
Shenk/Eidritch
Any of the A5 elite zones since they’re now Alvl 85 in D2R
Occasionally Baal
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There are plenty more exceptions my guy.
Deaths fathom
Eth titans
Andy’s
Eth reapers toll
Deaths web
Shako/occy early on
Mara
Soj/bk
And that’s only listing end game bis gear, not to mention mid game gear and gear you use to get to bis.
@OP, I do key farming on my hc hammerdin and toss in Meph/chaos sanctuary every now and then.
Cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows, then cows.
Pits, mephisto, diablo, baal. With the new ladder, ill try the other buffed areas.
I too am left feeling empty when nothing drops.
I don’t know if it’s confirmation bias or what, but I’ll roll into an area with 500+ MF, and NOTHING drops, not even uniques. I’ll farm for an hour with nothing.
I’ll roll back in with 150% MF and uniques start falling all over the place. I don’t get it really, it’s beyond frustrating.
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For the last two nights, I’ve adopted a new routine, which I’ll take for the time being outside of just playing most of the day on my days off. Shenk/Eldrich, Pindle, Arachnid, Stony, Pits, Chaos. I’ll do three of those, and if nothing drops that I keep (can be a charm, rune, 15 ias jewel, etc), I log off and do something else. If I keep something, I’ll do another set of 3.
I read a book last night, and am watching a movie tonight.
Nova Sorc 200% Fcr. Gheeds, 49% War Travs, and a bunch of 7% mf charms brings it up to about 120%.
I blast chaos and seal pop it as quickly as possible.
Also, I have been finding success farming AOEAH.c om for new char gear.
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It’s funny you talk about that because I dropped my players 7 down to 3 and started finally finding uniques
Wait what!
325 fg bin all
That’s half a Jah total you got there from all items! Good job buddy
Uh
I’ll give you an ist for all mid game gear I guess
my main mf area is the river of flame leading up to chaos sanc… full clear chaos have had really good luck ive ran about 1200 chaos runs and managed to find 2 jah runes 2 ber runes, 2 zod runes, LO, ohm, 3 guls… got a windforce and a COA as well… running 340 mf with my Foh pally. ive had better luck than most, but yeah chaos over and over again lol. occasionally ill do some baal runs… ill full clear level 3 and do the throne… got a sur rune done about 170 of those runs
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I dunno man, I don’t run MF outside of what’s on Enigma and maybe a shako/gheeds and I’ve found 2-3 of every usable unique but still working on a ton of runs I want. 
The diminishing returns on MF are so harsh that honestly anything at all past 200% is overkill. Generally I have somewhere between 130-180%, most of which is coming from Enigma.
I play HC ladder, not non ladder. Most of those items are vex+.
Either way, there are some magic and rare items worth 100s of bers/HRs.
I’m not sure what your original point is.
Countess
Pits
Andy
Ancient tunnels
Arcane sanctuary
Mephisto
Chaos
Eldrich/shank
Pindle
Nihilthak
Walk Baal.
Change up the acts/ skip some sometimes to change it up
I also walk all of these and kill everything because I enjoy the gameplay and loot is the bonus
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Sadly neither are
Farming and clearing are both useless in a game with no interesting activities to do
Nihlathak, halls of anguish, halls of pain, wsk lvl 2 and 3, throne of destruction, all of act 4, trav, pits, masolium, crypt. Imo bosses arent worth running except for Diablo, Baal, and Nihlathak. You get so many ez to kill spawns in high lvl areas.
HC
Cows, tower cellar lvl 4, lvl 5 then countess, Pit, Travincal, Meph, CS/Diablo, Eldritch, Shenk, Pindle, WSK2/3,Throne/Baal.
Sometimes Stony Tombs, Ancient Tunnels, Andariel and Arachnid Lair
I just want to throw a shout out to Act2 Fire Eye. Easy access boss mob through the Arcane Sanctuary door. Super density in that area and no cold immunes. There are usually about 4 Elite packs in the surrounding rooms too.
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