I am ABSOLUTELY positive that in Diablo the item stats (i.e stats for "Arctic Furs") are the same no matter where you get them from. I've seen the game played through and won by so many different people so many different times, I can even tell you that the character who was picked BY FAR the most was the sorceress!
I agree with you that it would be better if the stats were more like they are in Diablo (fixed), so that would put an end to all the loading and re-loading game (which makes it bitter irony for me to accuse you of cheating because you used an editor, while I loaded game 5-100 times to get a satisfactory one
), and therefore makes the game more enjoyable since you can look forward to the day you find something really good (i.e the whole Arcanna's set of items if you are a sorceress)! But
of course this is just my opinion, I do not wish to impose my opinion on others like Raze...
