I'd be ok with this, but they'd need to boost the power of NQ leveling gear. There's a reason why people use poetics and upgraded shire so long; you can only get better from whites if you spend a large amount of money to gear in crafted HQ whites, manage to do a lot of quests and get a full set of drops from it, or run a dungeon to get the entire green set well beyond what you'd need to outstrip it. Not many people on my server make or sell HQ leveling gear except for daily GC turn ins, with the result being each piece can hover 100-200k or so.

They probably need to look at itemization altogether some, anyways.