why bother

third mob i killed in HOTO droped a 55 purple staff that was better then the epic anyway..
runes failed horribly on this one.
the whole tiering system to is BORKED .. you must destroy your stats unless you want to spend thousands of us dollars to tier the wepon clean..
ok so is it worth keepign the stats?
no since one level in tier above what you clean your weapon to will give a far far higher return on your damage out put then the stats you keep by clean tiering would.
a t9 dirty epic vs a t8 clean the t9 will do far more damage.. so in the end stats mean nothing compared to wepon damage..... a messed up system wich clearly shows that clean tiering is not worth doing.