I don't play anymore but my opinion is still clear.
There's far worse things to worry about than these, rod is like 200m and it hits 55s or god knows what. Battle robes are op on def looks like it has divine bonuses.
Anything that comes ingame is a good news, if it's balanced correctly.
There's op items ingame and items that are nerfed to nothing, and here are you worrying about something that perhaps will be coded perfectly.
Anyways, pking with those armours is an expensive game. And it gives a new item to pk, they wont be protectable probably but still worth a bit.