Lol it kinda make rushing more interesting for anyone that rush for items. No more noob in the way trying to leech xp he has to stay in town the whole time.

Edit:

I had to try it to find if it worked with baal and my sorc got rushed till act 2 in nightmare i ws level 2. I wanted to get a low level merc and get it to have high level aura. It seem it been fixed for the merc since my holy freeze merc is still doesnt have his aura