Hey Tyler,
While putzing around doing tradeskills, I got a tell from someone who gave me an interesting piece of info. He says he saw that the Kael armors have recipes associated with them now and sure enough, they do.
If you aren't actively putting these in as alternate progression for non-raiders, I highly suggest this. It would give people the ability to get the armor and get to the point where they could do some stuff.
I only have one suggestion, make the items required for combines as no drop! The skill req at 255 should be doable by people at about 150 skill + tailor mastery 3.