

Str/Dex/Vit = Strength/Dexterity/Vitality, character stats.Mlvl, Ilvl, Clvl, Slvl: Monster, Item, Character, Skill This guide covers the Barbarian exclusively, but many players have very good luck using other characters for this purpose, and you can see tips and strategies for that in our Magic Find Guide. You can see much more info about various types of Magic Finding characters in our full Magic Find Guide. This guide also covers the creation and stat/skill planning for a MF Barb, how best to level him up, selecting his equipment, and the strategies you should use when playing him to ensure the best success in your item finding. All of these are covered in detail in this guide. However there are lots of other good places to find items, and Baal runs, Pindleskin runs, and various Nightmare boss runs are also quite profitable and popular. Mephisto is the most popular such item run, since he drops very well, and can be reached very quickly. After a few days of it with a Barb at around 450% MF, I had found better equipment for at least two or three slots on all of my characters, and proven myself quite wrong. I did that myself, as I had a couple of chars in the 80's, a Javazon over 90, and good MF on most of them, and didn't think I'd really benefit much by doing those "cheesy Meph runs". This guide is written from my playing experience in Hardcore, but the build is virtually identical Softcore, with just a bit less emphasis on hit points.Įven if you've been playing for a long time, and have lots of high level characters with good gear, once you begin doing Mephisto runs at high speed with high MF, you'll very shortly have much better gear and will be upgrading all of your characters with new stuff you've found. The Sorceress is probably better for Softcore, she can kill super fast in full MF gear, but she becomes quite fragile then, and death is inevitable. He is definitely the best at it Hardcore, since he can go full out MF and still be quite hardy. He has a number of skills that help him a lot in getting the equipment set up, making his way to the boss kill, and of course actually killing the monster.
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The Barbarian is one of the best characters for MF'ing, probably the best for Hardcore play.

Eventually you'll grow bored with him and want to try Baal or Pindleskin, for the potentially higher level items, stuff that Meph can't drop, and that's all covered here as well. There are lots of other things that are great to kill besides just Mephisto, but he's the fastest and best Item farming target. This guide will tell you exactly how to do that, and all the best equipment and techniques to use. This simple formula has been proven time and again by D2X players, and if you don't have a hell item runner, you probably want one. High Magic Find + Hell Mephisto runs = Tons of great items.
