I doubt very much you'll be able to +1 a NQ after you did trials on the NQ. +1s aren't that great anyway except to set them apart from the other stuff so you could get a NQ rep and store armor as a set so you weren't doomed to holding four pieces of useless armor just to use the one piece. That's not a problem anymore.

I suppose both pieces having the same stats is a small price to pay for static augs. In before the hellstorm of people wanting their cake and to eat it too, though. It's anyone's guess whom will be first to utter the words "but hqs should have better aug stats than nqs because I made the effort to obtain the hqs typical se I rather do random augs atleast they make logical sense" hey it's too late now. You wanted the benefits of static augs. You got it. Stick with the devil you know. That be the lesson learned here on this day by all who hold dear the white lines, 16 of November, 2011.