It looks like the main concern is balance. I think if you can boost the resilience and toughness and rework there crit stat etc I would say yes. Customization and reducing one shot is key. Maybe have leather/cloth specific ones.
I would just like to say that since I didn't play 3.5 on live and there is a lot of controversy around the update. I would like to see a PTS before this patch is ever finalized. I think Crafting, Trade and Progression is the main factors of this game. Currently everyone understands those and...
also i believe those links are their hosts. not sure why the client isn't failing over to them.
to be specific this is what i did
download these two files
http://cdn1.archeage.to/archerage_na/build.version
http://cdn1.archeage.to/archerage_na/launcher.version
setup or use a webserver you have...
I was able to work around this issue. I was failing to reach this server.
http://nacdn2.archerage.to/archerage_na/launcher.version
I edited my hosts file and pointed to my own server with copies of the file as a workaround.
This thread here kind of covers it...