Diablo 4’s most annoying issue is finally getting fixed

pcgamesn.com:

Diablo 4 items have this very specific, but occasionally very aggravating, little problem that makes building and strengthening alternate characters in the Blizzard RPG game especially difficult. If you’re after Diablo 4 uniques, specifically Sacred or Diablo 4 Ancestral items, there’s a fiddly kind of block on trading between your main and lower-leveled characters. Fortunately, with the Diablo 4 Season 1 release date, that’s about to change. Loot, level caps, and leveraging your alternates with higher-end gear are all being made more accessible, as one of the most annoying item issues in Diablo 4 finally gets a fix.

Picture the scene. You’re playing with your main character. You’re level 100. A Diablo 4 Sacred or Ancestral item drops with fantastic rolls which is scaled against your level, i.e. you have to be level 100 in order to use it. Sounds great, except you already have a slightly better item and you don’t need this one, so you naturally want to trade it across to one of your lower-level alternate characters.

But you can’t, because – yep – Ancestral and Sacred items are level-locked based on the character that finds them. Since the item is level 100 and your chosen alternate character is level 60, it’s a no-go.

And here’s another problem. While Sacred and Ancestral items have their usage scaled against your character, their stats and abilities are not. You can be a level 100, get a Sacred item drop, and it has the same stats as a Sacred item that you might have gotten at level 50.

However, since you got it at level 100, it’s scaled against your player level, meaning, again, you can’t trade it down to a weaker alternate character. Essentially, you have what could have been a level 50 item, but since it dropped for