I recently got my hands on these and tbh I can't say that I'm too impressed with them so far. ;;
Losing the 9 elemental magic skill kind of hurts on puddings but then again I don't have any merits into that yet.
MAB really doesn't do too much for you if you are getting resists 25% of the time.
I'm still undecided on these. I'll post again once I have some merits in ele magic skill.