Well if they aren't blessed then what is the point? Why not just make normal armor?
By the way, not everyone's post(s) or concern(s) are directed at Siege. /la
Ok, lets say I'm going to put on some armor and go fight some people.
I can put on plain old armor or runic armor or cursed arties or jewels or whatever and when I die the guy who killed me can take that stuff and put it on or save it for future use.
Alternatively, if I am in factions, I can take a piece of armor, or runic armor, or a cursed arty, or a jewel or whatever and using my hero/evil powers I can make those items hero or evil. Then, if I am killed by a member of an evil faction, he won't be able to use my hero items or vice versa. This option requires life force which you get by killing faction monsters.
Still another option is to faction craft armor. Now, that armor can only be worn by people in my faction. So, if I'm killed by someone not in factions or in any of the other factions, they can't use it. This option requires faction silver which is also obtained from faction monsters.
If it does nothing else, it makes silver worth something again. I think I've got about 50k silver right now and other than buying a faction warhorse, it has no use at all.
Edit: This is one of the reasons I harp on Jeremy sometimes about playing Siege. She seems to think that she can understand how Siege works without playing there, but since game documentation is so terrible, she really can't. No one could. That is why I wish she would get off her keyster and bother to create a character there. I don't like having a community rep who has never taken part in my community.
No one can accuse me of being Wilki's biggest fan, but at least he bothered to be present in the Siege community occasionally.