Well one thing I notice about all of those item level increases, they are all things that are in the advanced queue (EDIT: manycoins isn't actually I notice now) which itself had the item level raised from 16k to 18k recently. So basically you could finish a campaign to unlock a dungeon or skirmish and get in the queue and…
I don't understand the notes on this one. It says it is removed from the leveling queue but it was never in the leveling queue from what I saw, it was in the intermediate queue. If they removed it from that then I agree, not an improvement.