What makes the item system so bad?

[Jester]

Point one. True. But if we're going by that route, then I feel that the best use of resources is to not improve my gear for an extremely indefinite period of time. Also, regardless of the quality of the itemization, this would hold true regardless.

I don't understand. What are you going to use your resources for in a game about getting better gear, except getting better gear? RMAH aside, there's not anything else to do with your gold.

The game doesn't know what a "good" item is. It's just that the box that defines "very good" items is very small.

I'm still going to hold onto the belief that having more affixes on higher level items would allow them to be more distinguishable than the gradual upgrade of the same item with different names.

So long as there are better and worse affixes, the more affixes you add, the smaller the "box that defines very good items" gets. The Uber items will be rarer, and relatively better, than the non-Uber ones.

-Jester