Patch Available - KMST 1.2.456

Are you saying many more items are going to be like Zak helm and HTP and not be freely tradeable until equiped?
Which equips is this happening to?

No no, it's happening to all level 140 equips including the equips you pick up from the ground that have additional stats (You'll know because they have the same graphic but the level requirement is different). As every equip sans special ones can now drop it basically means that you can either SoK or drop a level 140+ equip that would have been ideal for another character of yours if you got it on the wrong character because of this system, it would have been much better if they only started to require SoK/PsoK after you equip it like the current Cygnus equips.

EDIT: As an additional note- I'd assume this limit is imposed only on the level 140+ equips as it's mentioned that those have extra options and I'd assume that means you can get things like %boss and %allstat off the bat but there's nothing conclusive yet. Doesn't make it less dumb though.