That's not a solution. What use is there for finding treasure if you remove all the affixes? The others need to be added back. The solution is to move the affixes off of weapons and add them to gloves/bracers/rings. You don't unequip a ring to dig. Does it make sense that wearing boots makes barter better? Of course not. So let's drop logic and use what is fun. Since higher stats make very, very little damage difference per each one level increase, you need items that grant multiple points of increase to keep loot acquisition interesting. Another solution would be to add a shovel/pickaxe slot to the paper doll. Then you could find enchanted pick axes and shovels that would add +1 Strength, etc.
