There is absolutely nothing to explain my reduced drop rate reguardless of magic find other than my charactors are getting flagged. When I’m not in a group my drop rate is almost non-existant. When I am in a group my drop rate is lower than anyone else.
I spent the day in Cursed Shore doing the karma run between pent and jofast (more than 10 hours) and got 8 gold items total.
I have this trouble with ALL my lvl 80 charactors, reduced drop rates compared to everyone else, and they get worse if I use magic find. The only explination is that my charactors keep getting flagged by the anti-farming code … and no-one else in my groups has the problem.
Others I’ve spoken to say they get more drops than I do. For example, pent event, I get about 20 drops total and half of that will be the junk skulls, 1/4 craftables, the rest split between whites, blues and greens … while others in my group claim 50-60 drops … filling their inv and hardly any junk.
I have no choice but to grind to get what I need for gear for my charactors … and grind longer than anyone else because of ther lower drop rates … but because I grind I get flagged and it seems like I get punished more than anyone else for doing what I have to do to get what I need.
This game is NOT enjoyable when you get to endgame and have to alot work harder than your fellow guild mates to get what you need.
As for magic find … it is broken for me in the sense that I get lower drop rates with it and get less % blues/greens in favor of more craftables. So MF only worth it if I am after fines. I get more drops without MF and can make more coin merching/TP items without MF in the same period of time than with MF.
