10-31-2003, 04:50 AM
Nearly all of the low level sets absolutely rock in Normal and many last well into NM. Iratha's is probably the only one with end game use
One thing that I would say however, slightly counter to the idea behind this thread (basically to look for more stuff to keep) is that right now time is valuable and muling (and burning in ladder mules) is a huge time sink
Further stuff drops all over the place. The general drop quality (ie chance of an item to be unique, set, rare etc) has been significantly increased and this seems to be cumulative with the increased chance that Act bosses have always had to drop uniques, sets etc
So while magic find no longer works you still get what looks like a high mf% drop when you kill Act bosses. This is true even after you do the boss for the quest (which gives an even higher chance of high quality)
So keeping all these low level items needs to be put in the context of taking 2 hours out of your Ladder playing to burn a mule and of the fact that pretty decent uniques like Duskdeep and Steeldriver can be gotten fairly easily.
One thing that I would say however, slightly counter to the idea behind this thread (basically to look for more stuff to keep) is that right now time is valuable and muling (and burning in ladder mules) is a huge time sink
Further stuff drops all over the place. The general drop quality (ie chance of an item to be unique, set, rare etc) has been significantly increased and this seems to be cumulative with the increased chance that Act bosses have always had to drop uniques, sets etc
So while magic find no longer works you still get what looks like a high mf% drop when you kill Act bosses. This is true even after you do the boss for the quest (which gives an even higher chance of high quality)
So keeping all these low level items needs to be put in the context of taking 2 hours out of your Ladder playing to burn a mule and of the fact that pretty decent uniques like Duskdeep and Steeldriver can be gotten fairly easily.