NQ is almost indistinguishable from HQ, but it's definitely worst.
And no, no one's stupid enough to sit around parsing nq ring, then switching to hq ring to see what the difference is. When your teachers told you there's no such thing as a stupid question, they were lying to you.
I don't see how it's stupid to determine whether a ring is significantly better or very marginally better when factoring the cost, but it guess that's just me.
Its a SMALL difference, but small difference when added together make a Big Difference.
This ring by itself is nothing. The ring doesn't change your entire build, as such (since beginning of the game) 1 STR is a Very small difference, and if you need other stuff, get that before this. If this is all you need, then its up to you.