[Autumn]

Dragon King set pieces grant the stats in addition to increasing the soft cap and are already meta pick items, Akmedis is horribly strong to compare it to currently, and Dragon King Armor has always had a high base armor stat. Is there something I am missing in people suddenly thinking it's bad? I'd like to think it's the opposite. I'll give you that on the gloves, crownbleeder is generally better for basic attackers.

I believe the archetype that Dragon King is supposed to fulfill is weaker than a few other setups, that being the melee warrior focused upon special attacking rather than basic attacking. That said I was always looking forward to if there would be a 5-set effect for the pieces, something critical and well meaning.

I'd be okay with more STR granted from each piece personally, something like bumping it up to +10% STR per piece, you can only go so far in scaled STR before the soft caps bite your ass anyway.