Quote Originally Posted by onero S
Option 1, there are better ways to make csted armor/imps worth it.

What I would do, is add slots to armor and imps and then let players mod items to customize the stats on it. So for armor you can, to a degree, choose to specialize in 1 resist or spread resists out. This is going to be even more useful with the new armor system.

For imps you can choose to mod them with small boni to things like agil, atl, resists, or subskills. This could also be used to offset the maluses on many imps, you can mod them to emphasize their functions or choose to negate their negatives.
Armour would have to have so many slots to make it useful so that would require either armour to have 5+ slots, or buying/building alot of armour!