Well, if it's like the Ember's stuff, you can go in and modify the items yourself. I improves the starting items that Nym and Ambrose starts with, I just need to find a way to enable him to wear human armor...
True... but if they are going to incorporate it into an official patch, the average user should not be required to mod the items in order to make them balanced. Things like that make a game look sloppy.