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Quote from Karalius

I guess no one will ever read this post, but I had an idea of my own.

Remove Magic Find as a stat on gear.
Add Magic Find stat that you can acquire after you hit level 60.
For killing a set number of champ packs, you receive 1% to your Magic Find stat.
Permanently.
After 4 months of grinding, your character reaches a cap of 150% or 200% or whatever Magic Find on that character.

Congratulations, you just solved gear swapping by creating some "end-game" for players who liked to grind to level 99 in d2.

This could have worked if implemented before release.. I think quite a few players will be very displeased if MF was removed entirely..

How much money/time/gold has been spent in search of MF gear? For many, maxing MF is END game.

This got pretty long pretty quick.. TL:DR = come up with a solution to the root cause and do so without any more negative impact to the players..

I feel like we're playing a game of Calvinball. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes#Calvinball

It seems that each of the options have some sort of negative effect on some part of the player base.

Option 1: Setting a cap
This is detracting to those who have spent many millions of gold or real currency to get significant amounts of MF whether it is a set to switch to or not..

Option 2: MF over time
If you have 300+% MF that is over 15 minutes to wait if you have a set that you have already taken the time to build.

Option 3: MF moving average
Overly complex and hard to communicate. This will only confuse many and cause players to want to look at their details page during fights..

Option 4: 0% MF for 3 minutes
The lesser of 5 evils I guess.. Least downtime of MF. But still not a polished option.

Option 5: remove NVB on gear swap
This is probably the worst as it not only adversely effects those who MF gear swap but those that have more than 1 weapon set.

If they didn't want gear swapping they should have changed the functionality when the game was in development. MF gear swapping has been around since D2 this is not a new concept. This is a Live game with millions of players, many of which have spent real currency to gear their characters. Instead of trying to remove or decrease effectiveness of one of the most important features/aspects of the game they should embrace that people want to have more than 1 set of gear. There should not be a penalty for changing gear, make changing gear better and easier. If it is the most efficient way to get the best gear and many are using it. maybe more people would follow the most efficient way to play the game if it was fully implemented.

D2 had the infamous 'W' swap key. This was genius! Simple, enough to switch in over 100MF, and wasn't only used for MF either. I for one truly miss the extra weapon set. Maybe take it a step further and have another gear tab that is easily switched to, offensive/defensive, offensive/MF, etc. While we are at it, maybe allow us to save 2 or more skill specs to switch to.

I guess what I'm getting at is embrace what some players ARE doing, with great benefit, not penalize all players. In most of the "options" that development staff has come up with their is a lot of collateral damage. I feel like many of the options are nuclear options.. Don't nuke the player base..

Lastly, I feel that many service improvements should take precedence to this and any other overall negative effect on the players.

FYI: I do not personally run with any MF and have not spent money on the AH (real or gold) on MF gear. I do however switch weapons and off hand occasionally (in and out of town) and many of these "options" would make my gameplay experience worse.