Diablo III Interview, Part Three

Diii.net continues to post portions of their conversation with Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson, with the latest set of questions focusing on equipment.
Diii.net: Are we going to see returning set or unique items from Diablo 1 or Diablo 2?

Jay Wilson: *pause* Uh. probably. The game's itemization is done fairly late in development. The itemization in general is done fairly late in development. So at that point we'll be building unique items and looking all over the world for ideas and I'm sure we'll look at the previous games.