After all ancient RoP and liars are done, why not look into armor designs. I know wepons have different looks, why not armoer have different designs that make your character different.
Or with emblems, not only would they give you a title, but a neat "sponser" art type thing on the armoer your wearing (like a tattoo)
I know a while ago someone sayed something about armoer duribility, some armoer would have to get repaired...cant find the post where it came from but...
If you did something like that, maybe with the metal armoer, when it got to a certain point where you havnt fixed it in a while, make it case a certain effect like bleed because the armoer got rough poiny edges hehe