Correct me if I'm wrong or if you think differently...
Who would spend so much time raising factions, getting either huge groups together or setting up raids in Kael Drakkel so you can get Items with about the same AC as Deepwater in some cases lower, have poor stats, poor resistances,poor Procs, and are No Drop, so when your done using the crappy things you can't even make a profit. If you are worried about AC go with DW, or Crystal Chitin. Scaled Knights are just as hard a quest, but guess what... you will not be finding much that will get better unless you are in a high Guild. By the time you are a 50 Pally you will be making more then Enough platinum while leveling to at least buy Deepwater, and I know there are much better things out there then that! These items are all around crappy, and even the faction in the end is yay i raised... oh wait nevermind I raised Coldain, now I can.... they are... no wait... that was ANYTHING ELSE!
It is fun to do do quests, but Isn't it more fun to do quests that get you something Good?
For everybody who did this out there good for you it is a hard commitment and you did well, I guess one thing you got out of it was some learning to do more advanced quests, but anyone that does not have plans on going to any of these places anyways, this quest is old and far, far outdated... Just buy DW for 500-700 pp and be done with it.