Question about the Diablo Universe

[Yogi_Baar]

I have a strong feeling that Diablo II does not contribute much to it, and logically contradicts Diablo I in some parts, especially concerning the power of some unique items

Well I haven't played DII much, but from what I could discern from people who have, is that the uniques (most, all?) are much more powerful there. Which, IMHO, is good. I mean, most of uniques in Diablo 1 are worthless, and are only useful in IronMan games and for variant characters. Some are useless even for IronMan. So I think it's quite OK for DII to tweak the uniques up a bit.