Without trying to sound rude- yes- I know- I have written a few of them. Mostly the - sampire in plate series (I believe I did 3 of those).
I am specifically looking about information about reforging and too see if I am over looking something or if there is a better way.
I am sorry. I was tired and misread your question.
As far as reforging - I try to limit the number of pieces I reforge. Generally I need 2-3 with HCI. If I use metal armor, I enhance with Agapite (high fire resist). So I start by making a lot of every piece selecting the ones that have a specific fire resist that would get me to 95 after enhancement (spreadsheets help a lot) and then one or two other resists that are at their minimum or within a point or two. This ensures that other resists on that piece are high. The minimum resists will be the ones I imbue when the time comes. This is a very long and boring person. One of the crafters on my shard claims to have 2 castles worth of such pieces. You need to have 5-10 of each piece that fits above criteria.
Then you reforge with a single name. Hopefully out of those 5-10 pieces, you will get one with the quality you need. If not, back to the forge you go.
After you have your 2-3 reforged pieces completed, plug all of your pieces (reforged and non-reforged) into the spreadsheet. Adjust the minimum resists to their imbued values, and see what you are missing. You might have to make more non-reforged pieces to fit the reforged ones.
If you are patient enough, you should get the armor where relatively few resist imbues are needed. That leaves a lot of slots for the good stuff.
Using studded leather would potentially make a better suit (LMC cap), but because there are only 3 runics, you will get wrong reforged mods much more often even with a single name. So it all depends on how many days and nights you want to spend snipping leather and looking at resists.
You probably know most if not all of this, but this is how I do it.