Quote Originally Posted by Zikh View Post
There is no consistency what the color of the item really means, so change like this doesn't really matter. Only thing that has effect on the item quality is it's item level and quality.

Someone in the itemization department really doesn't know what s/he is doing.
Seems pretty consistent to me:
Purple>Blue>Green>Pink>White
HQ items moves color to next tier. Seems more like common sense to me. There will never be Blue and Purple crafted gear, or else no one will do the endgame content. If you want craftable blue gear, then HQ green gear. There was never a shown purple gear besides the best weapon in the game, so why would they want players to circumvent the process of achieving the best items in the game by buying gil?