Hi Hunter
Not sure what your intention with the Blue Diamond Armour is - but it seems to me this stuff just isn't being used. I know a few people have made various items (what else are we to do with all the God's Majors that drop) but to a large extent they just sit in our bank accounts gathering dust.
This seems a shame to me.
So, I was thinking (dangerous I know) - could you consider adding a DS (similar to a bard), Regen (Similar to Druid II spell), Spirit of Eagle (Druid Spell effect), and Kraken to the various pieces.
The effects could be something like this:
Chest effect = DS
Legs effect = Regen
Boots effect = SoE
Hands effect = Kraken
In doing this you would also reduce the amount of boxes people are loading into the server to do RoA (thus freeing up more valuable server resources).
I know you wanted to increase the difficulty of doing RoA but I think the reality is that most people doing it have at least a druid, shammy and bard at their disposal to do the quest. The quest difficulty hasn't really increased - only the amount of support toons required.
Some thoughts anyway
Strix