Calculate Value of Weapons

Hello,

since i start picking up some interesting item here and there, there has allays been the question for me, which rare weapon is good and and wroth trading. So my basic question is:

Are there any tips which help you to rate a weapon?

I mean oblivious you want weapon DPS. So i guess this is a base value. But since there are so many different weapon types with different DPS values, its hard to rate it. So the first question is: Which DPS a good weapon needs for the different types of weapons? My second question is: Which abilitys are good and which one i don't want to have. For example: A life leach of 10hp for every killed enemy looks pretty crap.

I hope you can help me and i also hope i found the right forum for this question. :)

You want to look for synergising affixes with the highest affixes (end game stuff) and also mid game gear with the highest affixes which don't increase item requirements. So if you can find a level req 50 weapon with relevant level ~62 affixes that's good. Affixes increase the item requirements to 80% of the affix level.

Synergising Affixes are stuff like:

Physical Damage + Added Physical Damage + Increased Attack Speed
Added Elemental Damage + Increased Attack Speed + Elemental Damage
Spell Damage + Fire Gem Level + Fire Damage + Cast Speed

If you find a wand with high attack speed and cast speed but nothing else then it's worthless obviously. You want to find items with high rolls in a few related good stats.

Try to think "What sort of build would use this". The worst mods are Light Radius, Life Gain Per Target, Life Gained On Enemy Death, Life/Mana Leach, Accuracy Rating

Thank you, =)

but there still is the question which DPS i need for a weapon to be wroth full with good rolls. I mean obliviously midgame weapons are not that "good".

You can look at what people have posted in the forum at PoExplorer. You can sort items by DPS and look to see the different prices (seems it's down right now though.)

There's threads like this you can look at to find out what people think are good weapons.

I'm avoiding directly answering your question because I don't have experience with all the different weapon types and builds. It's also difficult to work out build DPS from weapon DPS. You can read the affix sheet to find the best possible weapon, but I'm not sure what is good enough to get a good price.