Raider to Non-Raider: an exhibition on thoughts and misconceptions

[Malzian]

This is false. Aetherial items have identical attack/defense and primary stats to equivalent green and blue items of the same item level (though there's only one instance of the latter), and the numerical values (determination's slightly different budget aside) for secondary stats are also identical.

Okay, I checked this and you're correct. Pink and green items of the same iLvl have the same stat values, though pink's secondaries are unreliable for what you get. I could not find a comparable set for pink to blue.