In order to better aid the casual player, many drops are made sellable. This way a person who does not have the time to fetch gear out of the dungeon can just buy it in the shops.

Plus, if we take Darklight as the 'HQ' gear available, there is already a plethora of equipment easily obtainable that would have stats similar to the suggested 'NQ' version, so there would not be a need to add more items.

We need to take care of having both easy mode and hard mode of this game implemented into one world. A better option (IMO) would be servers dedicated to easy mode or casual players, and another server dedicated to hard mode players. And all content can be scaled accordingly.