Yes. I've been testing out low tier gear mainly myself.
Insight, Splendor Book, Enigma armor(only using it for teleport for QoL, can change it for Authority with no major difference besides speed), Telling of Beads Amulet, FCR rings with leach and res, laying of hands, Hellwarden, rare boots with high light and fire res, torch, anni, then a bunch of resist charms.
basic prayer/cure/insight/treachery merc so no aura buffs.
Besides the torch and anni, all of this can be found in Nightmare. Still clears all of hell, and TZ 96 of p1 fairly easily. Only has issues with t3+ ranged Heralds, souls and dolls. those guys are massive pains to kill. lol.
you're not wiping the screen in half a second anymore, but you can still farm pretty much anywhere you want. and Heralds are pretty easy to spawn now. Only real downside to this, repair costs xD You'll want some kind of indestructible weapon eventually. Your weapon doesn't break constantly, but you'll probably have to repair it at least once an act.
Cool! thanks for sharing.. great to see its still viable at least with budger gear - would have been a shame if it didn't.