Sephrick brings up a very good point, and raises questions about "uniqueness" and fairness between mutually exclusive items.

Like the debate about Raid Items being better/worse than Crafted Items (and one set of players feeling left out, or worried they're marginalized)... so here with Grand Company items.

If they make one nation's Company Items better than others, then it marginalizes the other 2 nations' players.

But if they make them all the same (or within, say, 1 or 2 points from each other), what's the point of making Company Items except for looks or something to spend it on?

Promising future items that will make up for the "imbalance" may seem OK, but then when those come out, the nation(s) that got left out for those future items will complain as well.