I don’t want to accuse you of not doing any research, but Zantai posted Misadventure 163 less than 12 hours ago talking about serious buffs to lower tier stuff.
And lets not forget all MI belts got a +1 class skills buff just recently, that’s a massive usability increase.
Hell, by my count 1.1.4.0 had 69 lines of balance changes to Epic items and most of that was buffs.