inferior items - which are worth picking up

Inferior items (cracked, crude, damaged, low quality) can be turned into normal versions with

Recipe: Normal Quality Armor of Same Type or

Recipe: Normal Quality Weapon of Same Type. However their item level is then set to 1 so the number of sockets is limited. In addition to those two recipes there is also the imbue quest (

Tools of the Trade) for which the item quality doesn't matter. Giving

Charsi a low quality or a superior item is the same as giving her a normal item.
This raises the question: For which items is it worth it? This is my personal and rather short list of which inferior items I think are worth picking up. Please feel free to let me know if I've overlooked any valuable items.

Tools of the Trade
for a +2 skills

Circlet:

Tiara (the char should be 73 before using it) and

Diadem (any clvl is fine)

Recipe: Normal Quality Armor of Same Type
for a 3 socket armor:

Mage Plate and all light elite armors
for a 3 socket paladin shiled:

Zakarum Shield and

Vortex Shield (these are the only two with a high enough qlvl to get 35-45 to all res)

Recipe: Normal Quality Weapon of Same Type
only

Phase Blade since phase blades are never ethereal anyway and a 3 socket

Phase Blade has some use cases.

Throwing weapons have a fixed sell cost regardless of quality and wands/staves/scepters can be worth a lot of

Gold for A1 Normal, but otherwise, I never even bother picking up inferior items.