Scarred Kite Shields now come from multiple 40 Gridania regional levequests. The Ripped Haubergeon comes from a few 40 Limsa Lominsa levequests. The equipment rewards from the regular faction levequests seems to have become less common but the vintage versions of gear are awarded more often now. (Vintage Hoplon, Vintage Guisarme, Vintage Buckler, Vintage Jester's Cap, etc) Onion gear still comes from lower rank faction levequests as rewards and chests like before but less often then before perhaps.

Horn and Hand faction levequest rewards do need some balance because the new rewards are extremely meaningless to most players. (Crafting goods don't mean anything to players doing regional levesquests) Other then that they seem to have changed the faction rewards to be vintage version gear that was formerly crafted only and moved down the worn versions to various 40 regional levequests. The pool of possible items rewarded from a chest are always identical to the pool of rewards possible for the same levequests completion which is the same as before.