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According to the Wiki:

[Magic Find] Increases chance to drop high quality of items (Does not stack up with players anymore). Killing any enemy gives you +1 Passive Magic Find, which stacks up to 50, but all your Passive Magic Find is lost on death unless you have magic find in items or Patron.


However, I don't seem to find any relationship between the drops and the items I'm getting.
Maybe I just have too little Magic Find (73) to notice any differences.

Even with 125 Magic Find, as opposed to the 50 everybody's passive gives (after rammaging lots of items), I never seem to find piece of gear that has already been upgraded, or the chance of such gear increasing (has a star value on top of its rarity) or one of rarer qualities (Relics, Respendent and Shadow).

Note: To keep things consistent, I've experimented in Uber 3 difficulty for both attempts.

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I tried doing a small scale test using my lowest magic find vs my max all on u6.

I only calculated chance of magic find occurring while opening chests. 400 magic find (my lowest) = 31 / 100 chest opened, 31% chance of magic find occurring. 601 magic find (my highest) = 38 / 100 chests opened, 38% chance of magic find occurring.

However, I do feel the need to throw this out there even though it may be completely irrelevant.

400 magic find - average loot quality lv2 shadow items. Highest drop - level 3 item.

601 magic find - average loot quality level 2 shadow items, (more than 400 magic find < the confusing part) Highest drop - level 4 item.

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  • i found it confusing because the stat description does not mention anything about the improvement in quality of drops yet i have seen an overall increase in the average shadow lvl of items ive found.
    – ZOMBunny
    Sep 29, 2015 at 3:25
  • How about Pearls and upgrade stars? ... or the lower-end of the scale? (Oh wait.. That's for me to do right?)
    – aytimothy
    Sep 29, 2015 at 4:30
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It increases your rng to get a better drop. However it is not as simple as it seems to be. First your item is generated, and then your magic find will trigger and boost its level until a certain point. So then the bigger your magic find, then the greater the chances that the quality of your drop will increase. It is also possible for one magic find to trigger another one. So your item can go forward in these cases not one but by two or three levels. But using this it's almost impossible to get a radiant in elite world because it will be rng on rng. Meaning almost zero chance to get radiant in elite world.

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