[caliaca]

The real strength (lol) of dragon king is increasing your cap. It's not really about stat efficiency, the point of the item is to push damage a bit further than you're supposed to. So the gloves are comparable to crownbleeder but not outright worse. In many builds, they're better.

I agree that it could use a little buff though, especially in the set department. Even a handful of bonuses being given for having 2-3 pieces would push it to the forefront of the meta imo.

Mathematically, increasing your cap is actually not that impact full I hate to say. Like as a critter if you're going raw str you can go into cap and take 5 out of luck for crownbleeder and put that extra into str and get more than the soft cap increase gives. The breakpoint for this is like 25 into soft cap, which if you're doing that it's uh

It's bad

You can do the same with ten points of res from nullstone gauntlets and so on and so forth. 

There's rarely a case where anything outside of the accessory is worth it. I have the hands specifically as never use.

If you have an example where they give more stats I'd love to see it