I dunno if anyone else said this, but why kneepads ? aha couldn't they have just said "pants"

Well if you look carefully, it does not really cover his whole lower body parts. Just Mainly his legs.

what about the items?
will it be similar to d2? so there are non magical, magical, rare, unique items that can be sok'd? maybe have runewords?

I think so. Some of the colours are different, but I think the actual item types are the same. It's not been confirmed though.

Magic items are definitely included. They have already been shown (the Barb's elemental weapons).

Yeah the weapons was equip or fuse with the Frost, and electricity gems I think.

very nice! will there be runewords and such?

That we do not know yet, but more information will be updated, once they are available.

guess what i got my wd topic partially stickied