by Thott

Pure melees gain, at minimum, these abilities that they don't already have, through items:
  • damage shield
  • invis
  • ac buff
  • regen
  • SoW
  • infra/ultravision
  • +atk
  • +str, etc. most stats
  • haste
  • slow
  • very fast run speed (horses)
  • illusions
  • bind sight (albiet consumable)
  • stat debuff
  • locate corpse
  • +all resistances
  • blind
  • DA
  • snare
  • root
  • charm
  • cancel magic
  • gate
  • see invis
  • shadow step
  • +faction
  • enduring breath
  • rune
  • mana regen
  • levitate
Yet utility classes gain very little.  There are no compensating increased power items.

Everyone should gain the same amount of capability from time invested gaining items.