I've been looking at my equipment for sometime and I've always struggled to understand the colouring. I saw this: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...fix-Compendium and it gives lots of cool information, so thanks.

But I have two questions.

1. Unless I'm really dumb, if I look at the attached picture I can see both WHITE and GREY items:



Am I wrong? What's the difference?

2. I have two items:

Lightning Bolt Staff (grey/white) - lvl 30, 93 int, 70-86 dam, 2.3 speed
Thinker's Lightning Bolt Staff (orange) - lvl 28, 87 int, 68-84 dam, 2.3 speed, 1 int, 1% hit

As you can see, the standard staff has better dam than the orange item and I wonder why? Is the reason it's orange just because it can be used at a lower lvl and has int and %hit added to it, as to me, the normal staff seems a better bet. Or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.