Never bothered tiering armour, as always relied on evade instead.
After the armour nerf, I was even more determined not to bother tiering an asset that required extra costs to perform at the original price I paid for it without enhancers.
Not to mention the avatar evade that lost it's usefulness, or the ever increasing aggressiveness of mobs that learned how to by pass any armour that it encountered, and puny mobs that hit hard on +40 evade profession.
I hardly see any point in trying to work out what is good armour or what is good evade.
All I do know is that at some time in the future, I'll let my pets worry about those issues rather than me, and request I buy it some new pet armour I'd imagine (smiles).
Rick