Just to try and clarify what I am talking about, I am suggesting that you should be able to mouse over an item on the ground, and it should display the item card. This makes it easier to quickly evaluate an item, since you don’t have to pick it up to do so.
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Would take a lot to implement, even back in the day there weren’t any loaders or plugins that allowed this function whether on bnet or offline. Cant recall any d2 mod featuring this either.
For sure would be helpful but I would just be happy with the extra tags we could get with those aforementioned options, in particular to show number of sockets, ilvl and eth flag next to the name was always pretty helpful…
it took yearS for last epoch to fix their tooltips. things ate fps for no reason until they finally fixed it.
(the effect was doubled with auto-compare on).
i guess tooltips are a bit more complicated than they look. idk
theres already a bit of tooltip-technology in the game though, theres a compare items feature that pops floating tooltips of both your rings for example. might not be THAT complicated.
thing is everything on the ground is unid here…
Client doesn’t know all info of item on ground, the item info is truncated. Only when picked up or equipped to a character in view is the client informed of the full properties. Probably since so many items drop all the time, they wanted to reduce the size of item packets on the network.
Ilvl/Sockets/Ethereal are known to the client for items on the ground, and would be easy to implement.
If thats true changing it so feature was possible to implement would make bots even more efficient 
First, base items stats are known as they’re on the ground or at least stored in some sort of readable way that bots can figure out. I’m not sure his statement is the least bit accurate. ED/AR/Sockets/Res/Eth etc on a base is known along with skills. Perhaps this might have changed in D2R, but from what I’ve seen it hasn’t.
Also a bot being able to use a feature is not a valid reason to not implement a feature that people want. I’m not really sure this feature is necessary, but if it was for some reason, bots being able to do it too makes no difference.