Hehe, I know people who are abusing the "imbue option". They find all the new items from ACT II (they don't want to go too far to repeat the game). they will use the sprint mail, broad sword, tower shield and all of the best stuff in ACT II and keep repeating the game 'till they get each item with the best stuff.
I only did it once with sprint mail. It took me around 30 tries with sprint mail to get:
fast recovery
enhanced defense (133 defense),
+9 to life,
-1 to magic damage,
-1 to damage,
I got other versions of sprint mail that were pretty good too but this one edged it out.