Are items shared in co-op?

[Vertibird]

For example do I benefit from cooldown book which my friend got? What if I have max lightning wand and my friend has duplicator ring: Can I evolve my lightning wand?

[Gamerzilla]

Nope, not shared. Stage pickups are shared I think though, like +luck. I am not a fan of the system, but then again, every additional person playing would exponentially increase how easy the game is if they did share items.

[Blazerik]

Originally posted by Gamerzilla:

Nope, not shared. Stage pickups are shared I think though, like +luck. I am not a fan of the system, but then again, every additional person playing would exponentially increase how easy the game is if they did share items.

I don't think that is necessarily true. it might be true for certain character stats or effects. however by the nature of it, if people shared item effects it would be the same as base game. The way its currently done actually makes everyone weaker regardless of the fact that you have people in multiple locations or anything, because you gain a fraction of the stats you would normally gain. and most items stats are relevant to your strength.
Having less weapons and items simply makes you weaker regardless. because of how its broken up, callback to that old math problem of dividing something up, and then putting it back together and it not adding up again because you secretly lost something during the division.
The friendship bracelet is the attempt of counter balancing that flaw, but its effect is also pretty limited because its still taking up a level-up option for a small split effect