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Useful items are way too rare indeed. Look at my last character: almost half of the drops from uniques were average shields and magic ammo, or plain enchanted normal ammo. And if you want to get an extremely rare ego, you have to go through endless amount of junk you have to identify... and by that I mean *millions*.

So what's the options left? One, you can make an istar, which gets the most powerful spell in the game: ground ID. No need to pick up every shit to identify it and discard those 999999 bullshit useless pieces of crap. Go clear dragon pits, identify everything on the fly, collect interesting stuff, sell valuable items you don't need and make money fast.

Two, simply follow one of the hints you get from scrolls of rumour: "If you're not satisfied with the artifacts you find, then create your own!" Once your character accumulates a bit over 5 million gold, buy a scroll of artifact creation from the expensive black market in Minas and make whatever piece of equipment you want. You miss good boots? Create some. Of course, this requires massive amounts of cash. Usually, you will have the funds for one scroll once you reach level 50. And unless you're extremely lucky, the random artifact you'll make will be disappointing (if not outright cursed and unequippable)... so you will probably have to retry a couple times before getting roughly what you want. So maybe you want to couple strategy one with strategy two and play your istar for cash to get the funds. Just look at the high players when they are in town: almost all their equipment slots are filled with randarts.

Searching through loot with not mages is not that hard if you have auto ID item, which can be usually bought for a few millions. I use macro with command /dis f and dont have problems with cursed items this way.

I heard about spell which could destroy items on the ground (exept artifacts). What is its name?

Monster can cast mana storm destroy nearly anything, except mithril/adamantium armour (have chance to survive), artifacts and amulet of anti-magic, not sure about other anti-magics items. I think mithril/adamantium coins have chance to survive too.
Maiars have mana area spells.
Runie can cast mana area spells like beams, clouds, balls, and wave and it will destroy like mana storm spell

holy fire (fireflash at later levels) destroy only cursed/terrible items.

So only runies, mimics/adventures and maiars can cast such spells which destroy nearly anything. But you will destroy powerfull egos too, so i don't recomend it.

Thanks, guys! Very useful information indeed.

Middle- and high-end (30+) gloves for melee fighter. Its just madness. Nothing at market. But at the same moment, a lot of gloves for casters (mana+). Anyone could sew?

tangar wrote:Funny, that at 35+ lvl the most rare items become hats %) It seems players collecting only ESP hats at high-lvl. Quite hard to find one with blindness resistance+other resist.

Auto ID hats are pretty cool too. Post-king there's also Morgoth's crown which has a lot of good things on it as well. As for blindness resist on a low level character I recommend trying to find an eternal eye light source. You can occasionally find those in the Khazad Dum lamp shop but need to watch out for GSMs.

tangar wrote:I heard about spell which could destroy items on the ground (exept artifacts). What is its name?

In addition to those mentioned previously, the Maiar mana ball will burn most non-artifacts, and a lot of artifact arrows can as well. I think Orb of Draining burns cursed loot, but could be wrong on that.

tangar wrote:Middle- and high-end (30+) gloves for melee fighter. Its just madness. Nothing at market. But at the same moment, a lot of gloves for casters (mana+). Anyone could sew?

Good fighter gloves are usually randarts, and are much more rare than "of the magi" gloves. Not a lot of people sell them because of how rare they are. Istari gloves aren't that bad on non-casters IMO if you need the high resist & FA.

Forgot a third way of getting good boots: rare footwear shops (the "2" ones) in the dungeon. Guaranteed boots of speed, elvenkind and other goodies.

Still rare?

Quite rare But I found that a lot of other types also more rare than anothers. Maybe its just RNG and if there would be more players' shops - picture would be different.