Some stupid questions, hope you guys didn't mind to answer them!

Percent damage reduction and more life should be the next thing you upgrade if you want more defensive stats, because 300k defense should be ok. Truce RW belt and Erawan RW armor are good items for damage reduction and Nephilim boots give a good vitality bonus, just make sure to make the best possible base item you can before you put the runes in. Meaning make sure it's superior with 40% or higher defense and gets the oil of luck upgrade, then put enhanced defense MO's or whatever you'd need (10 max MO's)

Edit: then again if you're relying on paragon, runewords drastically lower how many gems you can have. Mix it up, see what works, but of course don't go full runewords if you're using paragon.

ChuckNoRis wrote:1) no , MF on mercenary will count only for what he/she kills

Somnus wrote:1, if the mercenary kills something, it has X% of his OWN MF, not yours.

You're both wrong to my knowledge: Link

Does Magic Find work with Mercs or Minions?

Not for things you kill, the Merc's gear has no benefit to your +MF. However for things that the Merc kills, the drop is calculated for their MF + your MF. So if you both have on 4 socket armor with perfect topazes, things you kill will have 96% +MF, but things the merc kills will calculate at +192%. Dress your Merc up with 4-topaz armor and 3-topaz helm and try to let them get the final hit, and it might be worth it.

MF does work with minions, they don't have any MF of their own, but they use yours to calculate the drop. This has been fixed from CD2, where Necromancers had it rough, since their MF wasn't checked on kills made by their minions (including monsters killing themselves with IM on).

Merc's benefit for your magic find, but not vice versa. This has always been true for the d2 engine as far as I'm aware.

EDIT: Also gold find.

whiches are very common in the canyon of the magi. takes like 3 rolls of the map to find them on average from what I can remember. just keep trying.