i dont belive it's turned off for any one givin person i belive they have it programed to turn off on certan ip address for there servers during certan times or just west/east/asia1/asia2/europe kinda thing. but please do help me try to do this study see what you get within the next 10 mf games with somewhere close to 298 mf if your below lvl 92 if above somewhere close to 289

pure luck on the roll of the numbers

i dont even have gear for that.

if anyone can test my theroy please try for me. it's hard to do this alone just trying to figure out things ive wonderd seince the begining of this game.

Anyone at any givin time. tell me your mf/time/and lvl that you did it at. just doing 10 games back to back of mf and im going to be writing up a time chart of best mf times if the theroy proves right

Ahh, but are those times including daylight saving adjustment? And are you counting merc MF?

I've been finding that the good times seem to have shifted for me following the turning back of the clocks, and the merc MF seems to be turned off completely now.

I also think the amount of MF is different for each class, for example my lvl 86 sorc was getting fantastic results between 7pm and 9.15pm but only on Thursdays, and only if her MF was exactly 342. On Sunday on the other hand she was finding absolutely nothing.

Highly appreciate the imput and information of that. it will be a big help. now lets just hope nejagur thinks the same thing and allows me to go past the max post mark on this so i can keep this post up and information gatherd daily

i believe in a 8 player game, you get more drops, so make sure akara, charsi, kashya, gheed, warriv and cain are with you in catacombs level 4 when you kill andy.. that'll make it 8 players i believe..

1. you
2. your merc
3. akara
4. charsi
5. kashya
6. gheed
7. warriv
8. cain

Also, if you have cain ready at hand, you can ID faster without having to go to town.. and everybody knows, faster runs means more MF..

There is no such thing as "mf on" or "Mf off" it's all roll of the dice and based on numbers.

Ideal MF to run is around 300-350 (I trial-and-error around that range and do fine)

Download Atma and look at the probability calculator.

http://atma.diabloii.net/

After downloading, you go to Utility -> Drop Calculator -> 1.11( it doesn't matter that it doesn't say 1.12 since all 1.12 did was make it so you don't play with a cd anyways)

This will tell you a lot..It is a very useful tool.

But remember, even though it tells you that higher the MF, odds of getting unique stuff are better right? wrong.. If your chance to get a COA at 500% MF is lets say 19,000 but its 19833 at 300% mf, you might wanna go with 300% because at 500% you are seriously increasing your chances to finding blues, and its all math and numbers, since you have way more odds getting blues, and sets, you'll probably get them more often

The trick is, balancing MF, and I've discovered that the balance is 300% in Hell Difficulty. But if you wanna find stuff like SoJ's, i'd say 600-650 in Nightmare Difficulty is your best way.

Hope this helps

I doubt that's the case.. highly improbable.
Maybe you're just unlucky?