It's a lot of effort getting HQ out NQ mats as you say, cause not only is the RNG there as you said, but getting the appropriate gear that you talk about, also takes a lot of time to craft, and to get that to HQ for more chances for the HQ combat gear, you're throwing us into a huge amount of effort, which you have to go through every few levels when you upgrade you gear... where the quest gear is still equal to the HQ which is a huge amount of effort in the way you state it and dungeon gear is still better, and literally Augmented Shire gear is 3dmg higher than NQ lvl 68 crafts. getting the HQ as shown above is huge amounts of work.

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