Quote:Hmm, what about finding good (exceptional I suppose is the best you would find here) normal items that you could have Larzuk socket for rune words? Find many goodies here?
No better than any other area lvl 39/40 area. The only reason at all that it is a great place in hell is due the the very high area lvl compared to the rest of hell (the high lvl allows leaders/champs to drop a few things that can't be dropped in most of the game). The nm version doesn't really have a big boost to area lvl at all, and as such is nearly worthless for mfing.
I suppose it's fairly safe compared to nm Baal runs, but you can get many elite base items as well as normal/exceptional doing nm baal runs. As well as getting decent xp up till around lvl 75 or so.
EDIT: Well, also the big draw to hell pit is that the monster types are much easier to kill compared to the monster types in many of the few area lvl 85 areas in the game. If you're really looking for a large # or normal/eceptional white items, a good place is the NM cow lvl or NM/hell act3 jungles. The huge # of relatively low hp monsters should grant a good sized amount of items.