Memories... the past

[Jugalator]

But for mainstream items (damage weapons, leech weapons) they should not be able to compete with rares (but be better than magicals) because it doesn't involve 'going out and killing for them', just waiting for some rune to drop and sitting in town and cubing.

Yeah, runes drop in town all the time for me, without having to kill anything. And those jewels and Perfect gems are just as easy to get from Larzuk. :huh:

You have to kill for crafting ingredients and to gather the ingredients you need for a specific craft can take about as long time as finding a rare of the base item you need. I mean, Shael's, Amn's and Sol's are considered "semi-common" but they don't exactly grow on trees. Or I'm just very very unlucky. :)