(06-05-2012, 11:13 PM)Chesspiece_face Wrote: I was under the impression just from how I've seen them drop that they fit somewhere in the magic item spectrum. When killing champs or bosses and having them drop they have taken up one of the magic item drops as opposed to dropping in addition to the normally expected magic items.
If Magic Find works anything like Diablo 2, then it doesn't increase the chance (or numbers) of base items to drop, only the chance that the base item will upgrade to magic/rare/legendary/whatever. (Maybe there's some NV benefit when killing event bosses though, as that actually increases the amount of items that drop.) If plans or gems get rolled instead of a sword, then the MF wouldn't be doing anything. Really the MF hasn't done anything when you get your minimal blue either, it's just there to help upgrade that blue to a rare+ sometimes.