I dunno if it'd be lower tho, really. Cuz there's only, what, a max of 24 ppl per shard who can get first place rewards? If they cycle up each hour, which is unlikely. And that's if they spend insane amounts of time slogging thru revan after revan every day lol. If they equalized it, or made it based on participation, players in the lower and middle end would get much more from it.
As it is now tho is pretty terrible for the average player.