Are Rares realy useless?

[D-Dave]

Well yes, with THOSE rares, sure, rares look great! The Amazon equipment you list there is godly. I mean it.

Thats why I listed them as a good example. (btw, rares like that are the result of a serious gambeling problem! Gloves were actualy hardest, I think it took me about 1000-1200 rare gambeled gloves close to the ideal Clvl to get them...on the other hand, I made lots of friends happy with the semi-perfect gambeling laftovers ;) )

Too much. Making 90% of Hell rare weapons have cruel or grandmaster's on them, or BOTH, would take the problem from one end of the spectrum to the other.

Hm, ok, I probably overdid the "power to the rares" thing a bit. Maybe that is due to the fact that I did get all #$%&ty rares for the last 3 weeks apart from gambeling. Better thinking next time, I promise!

You need a decent sized Mana Steal percentage to compensate for the lack of physical damage and the leeching penalty of Nightmare!

I still see no point in having 8% mana steal on a set weapon that only has 7-14 physical damage.
Maybe I am missing something, but with damage being so low, how can one gain any reasonable amount of mana back from this?

-dave