the shadow gear you make with emypral recipe books the resolve is 150 and should be 160 and the stats also need to be updated aswell to match as the weapons armor jewelry etc are the same as mastercrafted
Yeah, in beta (I know things change) the empyral was 160 resolve up until the game launched live. Then it dropped to 150 resolve.
Shadowed rares cannot be refined. Regular rares can. Emphyral gear requires 150 rares and 187.5 plat just for fuel There is no sensible reason for it to have stats that are worse than solo quested gear.
I was looking forward to being able to make mastercrafted gear and leveled up my tradeskillers hoping the launch stats of 150 resolve was a bug and would change promptly as we saw 160 in beta. Havent seen any word so far of any changes - hope the devs will look at this otherwise its really not worth having some crafting proffesions anymore