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Let me look at this from another angle, you're cruising through level 10, laying waste, and getting wasted, by everything you meet. You come around a corner, and find yourself facing 2 Greater Clay Golems, and one very angry Nature Elemental. Now, if you're a shadow dancer, or have one of the items that allows you emulate one, and have some hide skill, you can pretty much slip away from it. If not, it will follow you relentlessly. Rogues or bards could use scrolls, but that Fighter/WM? They would be doomed to have that creature following them around for the rest of the level.
As to the run around picking up useful items, I don't do that. I will have a bag set aside for items that I may want to use for a future char, and if I get the chance, I'll swap the items to the new char. In the strictest sense, this is still cheating, however, I personally don't have a problem with my earning stuff, by either buying it when I get to the appropriate level store, or taking it from the carcasses of vanquished enemies. I don't see that as being much different from passing goods to a new player that wants them.
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