Thanks to Repose, these aren't so limited in usage any more. Still not worth breaking the bank over, but certainly a nice macro item to swap in for sticking Repose in Mission/BCNM/KSNM/etc fights.
Well I am the proud owner of a pair of these on Fairy server (the only pair to have gone through the Jeuno/Whitegate AH it seems), and I can tell you they have a lot of value to my WHM for a few reasons.
I macro them in along with my MAB gear and my Divine earring for my Banish spells (There are much stranger things to be seen than a WHM nuking) as well as Flash though I don't know what effect that has on it (if any at all), makes me feel better though.
But really, what you're all forgetting here and what I feel is the coolest thing about this piece of armor- the novelty :D. 1) They are gold plate boots (lords sabatons model) that you can wear on WHM! They'll go well with your Voyagers Sallet, Reverend Mail and Light Gauntlets so you can run around town fooling people into thinking you're a melee job. 2) They go 'clink clink' whem you walk o_o. This is nothing new for PLD obviously, but it's fun to run around with pantaloons on obscuring the boots, making a clink clink noise and have half the PT /check you to find out where the heck the noise is coming from.
Oh and I suppose the fact that I don't know anyone else on the server with a pair comes in as a close third :D. A fun piece for the experimental/completist/wierdo WHM, but don't break the bank over it.
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