Given the current drop rate and additional item drop stats, I suggest removing rare and unique items from the game because they quickly become invisible. As for beginner players, make them level 5 elite and give them 1 LT, or give them a starting level 1 weapon with some damage to make it easier for them to get started, and for a month, a true poison set.
True poison set at lvl 1 & HH at lvl 100 (so they can do both early + HH easily) : Good idea
Removing rare/unique items not sure, because it's still a source of gold (even if not such an oustanding amount) for them early..
Giving them more access to Lucky Tickets (regardless of the way) could be a smart idea. At the moment LT's mostly are accessible for people who do BG bosses (too hard for early players) & tesseris (same).. That would probably also help them getting items without having to pay too much from very bad items in AH.
Mostly interesting suggestions, worth thinking about some improvements.
EDIT: But in any case, it would need to be monitored to avoid any kind of abuse. Maybe make the LT's bound on account (those specific "low level friendly" LT's).. or some stuff like that. Because else, we can already foresee it being abused by some players..