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"Brian Brunner" <brian.brunner@verizon.net.prophet> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, "W@rlord" <news@nomail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Gidday,
> >>
> >> What's the best method besides finding magic / unique find to increase
> >> the percentage of finding uniques / magic stuff.
>
> Another secret is that your merc gets your MF as a base for his/her MF,
> so if you & your merc both have 4 PTopaz armor & 3 PTopaz helms, your
> merc's kills are boosted double.
>
> While having your merc do the killing is tedious, it is the best MF
> possible. You load up with MF and stay out of danger, he's got MF and
> you re-raise him as necessary.
And to expand on that it only matters who gets the killing blow, your char
can get the monster down to a sliver of life, and if the merc gets that last
hit that kills, the game uses the merc+your mf