If so is it worth it? I’m thinking about getting it.
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I feel like this is a negative.... One of the bright spots of D2 was picking up interesting and/or powerful items for another class and wondering about how to make it work on that other toon. Then you'd start that character up, and they'd find some things for themselves, but also for other classes, and pretty soon you'd have a stable full of different characters. Some would be stronger and further along than others, but you'd be exploring the game much more and challenging yourself to build and play in different ways successfully.
Removing this aspect feels like putting the game on rails even more than it already is. If everything you get is tied only to your class, not only is that immersion-breaking, but it actively keeps you in the rut of your current character....
Maybe it was different for D2, but I found the random class loot to be a huge issue in D3 since it seemed designed to force players into using the auction house. Once the auction house was used you could easily get gear far surpassing what you would find naturally, which turned all loot collecting into a number crunch for getting ingame currency. Even if you only share to your other characters it makes those runs easier in a game that was already very easy at start, which doesn't help when figuring out that class's limits. D2 had a much higher baseline difficulty than D3, so getting high end gear from your other characters might have made a lot more sense there.