I'm pretty sure they said they were gonna reduce the stat difference so that NQ items wouldn't be useless, let alone worth less than the mats used to create it. They said something about reducing the stat difference from 20% to 10% or something, but didn't account for the fact that there's stat inflation, or at least the difference is still very, very significant...that a NQ master's mainhand is equal stats to an HQ'd adamantite mainhand.