I think I was level 10 or 12 before I checked my stash and saw those items so you're not alone. I believe forneach new character you make you get additional copies as well as I had made 2 before checking and had 2 sets when I finally did.I tried it last night on the PS3 and I think I might prefer it. I liked the controls better and using the controller to move. The inventory is nice too. Just a flat number of spots rather than having to try playing inventory Tetris.
I'm a bit embarrassed that it took me some time to figure out that there were legendary items in my stash to use right away though.
I'm trying a barbarian. One thing that was super different to me was all the difficulty levels. At level one I had easy, medium or hard. And a whole bunch of locked ones.
Has anyone tried those?
They still have the standard tiers of hell, nightmare, inferno etc. but I believe that the difficulty levels you're refering to are the consoles version of monster levels.