another solution to this would be to make crafted gear with good stats but requires drops from NMs or from raids or whatever. something that XI did very well. SKy armor required Crafted cursed items, and the NMs dropped items to make it useful. Or Scorpion Harness was one of the best body pieces for evasion tanks for years, but the main ingreidant to make dropped form an NM.

They attempted to do this with dodore doublet Silver tricorne and mosshorn mail but no one uses those anymore