my question about critical strike received an amazing response, so I am hoping the same can happen for magic luck! From the help text:

+ Magic Luck Increases the chances for higher stats on an item drop.

I have seen a few references in different topics that ML only helps for overspawn, but does it also create a higher chance of say finding a 30+ dex armor/charm, 100+ee item etc? I assume testing this would be next to impossible, but any insight is appreciated!

theoretically, yes.

should improve the drops.

and yes, testing has been "tried" but results were more or less inconclusive

This bit of text is the only thing that we know about ML works(and the fact that it can create overspawns):

+ Magic Luck Increases the chances for higher stats on an item drop.

It is presumed that it does increase your chances to find items with higher stats with it. No one other than Njag knows what it does, but based on what the description of the stat says, I'd say there is a non-zero chance that it should increase the stats of your drops in some way, thus making you find more items of 100ee+ over time.

This post was edited by RabbitRoyal on Apr 8 2021 06:37am

I like to compare it to the chat gem in d2.

😂😂😂Probably its correct

LOL!



Ok yeah, that is what I was thinking but we don't know.



OK thanks

The answers posted are 100% correct, the only thing I can add is:

Before Magic Luck had a % chance to find Overspawns, all the testing resulted in speculations. This even went into how it affected group runs (basically more players in a group increased it) or even Guild Only runs etc. Nothing came from them, still, I will admit even though I solo, I always create a Guild Only catacomb.

I still don't know if it helps... use to have 7ml from level 25 to MQ and still crap drops, then I do runs with 0ml and find a decent drop and vice versa... yup, not easy to identify without specific notes from Paul.

At the end of the day... Magic Luck works, so more the merrier as long as it doesn't slow you down too much, or you have the patience to deal with a slow grind.

Magic luck had an effect even before overspawns were possible. However, there is no display message or indication of if it worked other than with overspawn properties, because that is the only effect it has which cannot happen without magic luck.

I was using magic luck for quite some time before overspawns were possible and other than overspawn properties, there are two effects which ML seems to produce. It can increase the rarity of the item (magical, rare, mystical, etc) which in the past was always obvious after playing with ML vs no ML over even a pretty short period of time, and it can increase the tier of a property on the item (tier 1 ee is 1-20%, tier 2 ee is 21-40%). This effect was almost impossible to discern until overspawns were possible.

Whether this second effect can produce more than a single tier increase in properties is something that I don’t know... however, even if it only increases by one tier, it will increase your odds that any given drop is above the breakpoints that you mentioned