Yes that's precisely what I thought too about that set. 4x accu melds on the right side leaves only 1x possible vit meld on the ring.

For progressing through a8s I can use lore spear and lore boots with 1x accu meld (60 accu vs 24 from midas boots with 2x accu melds), and that frees up 3x accu melds from the right side. I guess the problem would be once you get the spear and need to swap the lore boots for midas boots. But if you still absolutely need/want vit melds even with a8s spear and chest then you can give up the 2x crit melds on the weapon for 2x accu melds and replace 2x accu with 2x vit from the right side gears.

Personally I haven't seen much of a8s, and I've only entered it as drg once (up to vortexer/swindler), so I can't comment on how bad the J kicks are.