Diablo II 'Magic Find' Guide (English Version)

During 'Magic Find', one often finds unusable magical items, which, however, can be sold for a fair sum of gold to the vendors in the towns ('World of WarCraft' players, take note: up to 35,000 pieces of gold in 'Hell'!).
For the closing of this little guide about 'Magic Find', a cognate activity shall therefore be mentioned briefly: Gambling. Some vendors offer the option to 'gamble' certain items for a certain amount of gold. This a little bit like Roulette: One can see the base item but doesn't know if it's a normal, exceptional or elite item (for armors and weapons), and one doesn't know which magical quality (magical, rare, set or unique) the item has.

Like the drop chances of good items, the chances for gambling good items have been increased as well. 'Increased' is relative here though, because the odds that one gambles, for example, a unique amulet by chance is still very, very small. Nevertheless, there are certain items that are always worth to gamble. These are Jewelry (Amulets, Rings) and Circlets (Circlets, Coronets). The chance that one gambles one of these items with rare quality (with more than 2 affixes) is actually relatively good, and after a certain character level, even +2 to all skills of a character class are possible on amulets and circlets. The minimum required and optimal character levels for gambling +2 skill items are as follows:

• Amulet : minimum Character level: 86, optimal Character level: 95 and higher
• Circlet : minimum Character level: 83, optimal Character level: 92 and higher
• Coronet : minimum Character level: 78, optimal Character level: 87 and higher
• Tiara : minimum Character level: 73, optimal Character level: 82 and higher
• Diadem : minimum Character level: can always get all affixes, optimal Character level: can always get all affixes

Note regarding circlets that Tiaras and Diadems (elite circlets) are not available for gambling in the gambling window, but only Circlets and Coronets. The latter can be elite items after gambling though, just like armors and weapons, and then the aforementioned level rules for elite circlets apply.

This 'Magic Find' guide wouldn't have been possible without the detailed information about the novelties and changes of the Diablo II 'LoD' 1.10 patch. My special thanks go therefore first of all to my mentor and friend Ace Ventura, whose great wisdom in all questions regarding 'Magic Find' in 1.10 was extremely helpful.

My thanks go furthermore to the communities and the 'Diablo II' modding- and code-'gurus' of The Phrozen Keep, The Amazon Basin and The Lurker Lounge, who were already busy worming out the interesting new secrets of the 1.10 patch during its beta phase.
Thanks go of course as well to Blizzard for making a great game and the Arreat Summit website with a lot information and strategy tips.

Those who like to have further information and statistics about the theme, may visit the aforementioned websites and their forums, or the 'Diablo' fansites Diii.de and Diii.net.

The actual version of this guide can always be found here at Diii.de.

And now have much fun searching and finding the items!

nobbie

December 24th, 2003 (1. Edition) / April 10th, 2009 (Revised Edition)

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