Without even trying to be apologetic towards Funcom, the obvious is still the obvious. The price for an armor set (5 pieces) is:
(-250) → 1,000 ← (+250)
So basically, they just introduced a 3rd Ophidian Armor.
If you already have all of it from the BP – well… there were already less exciting armors in the Bazaar. So all in all, it’s a compromise, a new armor + slight variations of the BP stuff. Expensive… yeah, fair… depending on one’s point of view – to me, nice as I already liked at least the short skirt.