Consider that if I have an affix that adds +1 to +10 fire damage, a player will find the item with +8 and have no basis for which to determine whether the item's property is decent or not. Players could check a mod's documentation for this answer, if it exists, but this is unrealistic; no player is going to alt-tab and read about magical affixes after each time they find a handful of items. So the player is going to toss it or sell it, and try to find a rare, set, or unique item. These are obviously better than a magic item. But consider that all these items are just another degree of the same problem. They all have magical properties too, that range from terrible to excellent.
So is there an answer to this problem? Probably not an easy one. I ended up opening photoshop and fooling around for half an hour, mocking up an item from my mod which I took a screenshot of. I created an item description that simplifies the 'Is this trash or not?' problem that occurs every time we pick up items.
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In any case, this is just something I've been considering lately, and thought I would share.
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