Smith of Kitava buff plz

I think this ascendency is close to being good, but there is one glaring issue. The idea is you get to craft your own body armour. Well we have plenty of crafting in game and when doing the usual crafting with orbs and such what does literally every crafter do? THEY INCREASE THE DEFENCES ON THE ITEM. Like seriously GGG you limit us to a white armour and it feels terrible because you use ascendency points to lose a ton(50% or so) of your defenses. Your telling me Renly never taught the warrior how to make a proper piece of gear?

Here's a simple fix make the node that forces you to use a white body armour to also grant said armour 2% increased defenses per level, such that at level 50 it has 100% more armor(double the base) and at the end game 200% more. At end game the armour would have roughly 3000ish armour close to T1 rare armour.