Well the deal with me is, there was one time, i just wanted to test it out, i did mephruns in hell with a sorc. I had some 500% regularly, but gathered up switch items for the boss kill, raising the percentage to about 1000%. Made me weak as hell, lol, but the distance trick makes it safe.
The experience i found was that while i got not more often drops, the drops i did get was better. Wizardspike and such, i mean more rare uniques.
Whether you want to slow it down 40% and increase mf% by 500 .... it must be a decision only you can take. It's fun though, it's like playing the slot machine with the highest bet, you can't play too many times, but it raises the pulse a bit more when you actually play ....
Or blackjack, lol, i was actually on a ferry cruise some months ago and did that.. started with 50$, 5-40$ bet range. Went back and forth a bit, but in 10 minutes i had 150$. So i bet 40$ on 3 hands ^^ I thought, if i win this one, i'll quit. What do you think happened? ^^ Of course i lost two hands and got even on the one ^^ And after that, 5 minutes later = Bankrupt ^^ So close ^^
But it's sort of the same in d2. I like to do it that way. If i can boost mf with a cheap trick, i'll do it. But i won't spend 2 minutes swapping gear like that time ^^ Takes way too long.