Quote Originally Posted by Steelstar View Post
We tried to do that with the end reward list items in Wheloon and the Storm Horns; those items had one affix that was much higher than other versions of that affix at-level.

Players pretty universally claimed to hate them while continuing use them as the standard of balance for all future loot (i.e. "I can get STR +8 at level 15, it should be +8 on ALL ML15 items").

We're not likely to do that again anytime soon.
People didn't like it because it was autogranted on completion of quest and it was way over most named loot at the same level, making named loot people had looked for through grind, trade or luck worthless. Kinda like how random deadly of accuracy items destroyed the value of named loot with deadly (such as the visors out of EPOP