No rare drops from bosses past Normal?

[krischan]

LOL. If I would get mostly blue items in D2 from Hell Baal all the time, I would probably quit the game sometime in 2002. XD

But with no MF gear on your character, Baal did drop mostly blue items in 2002

[metarox]

On all my untwinked chars I never felt like I really needed an upgrade until Hell Act 3. Up to this point, you pretty much steamroll through the game.

I only move stuff from my chars and avoid the AH but I didn't steamroll anything yet in NM and some chars were actually blocked. Now my first char is in Hell Act 1 and I'm pretty much getting steamrolled when I get some nasty 3 affix champion pack because my resists are too low <50 (other chars are all somewhere in NM)

But I like it this way, I take my sweet time (and with wife + kids only have 1-2h a day to play on week days) and I like it that I don't stomp everything on the way. Makes that feeling of finding a great item rewarding when I can give it to another "blocked" char (I could clear the content slowly by dieing all the time but that's pointless to me) which can now progress in a better way.

Some people I guess are lucky enough to find the super item required to stomp everything into Hell, but I haven't been that lucky yet (and only 1 crappy legendary)