bottom line, if you are looking for all around easy ice up to WI5, go for quark. super light weight.
if you are looking for all around hard mix/dry up to m7,8 ,or even 9, go with nomic.
If you are looking for drytooling tool up to M13(i guess..) ergo really make a difference on hard dry tooling routes.
but for me,... nomic is more than enough.