This is intriguing!
Good job Funcom! Seems intentional, as these items are on par with the old epics from Xiba.
Now add some more epics from the rarebosses, the tanky rare-spawn after Acheronian Warlord, and Meskit the fated one!
After that...Onyx Chambers please! Let us farm, and farm, and farm for hours and hours in that hellhole. I'll be there hoping for that low-percentage drop legendary! (re-introduce/revamp some of the mechanics while it at aswell)