you're not very good at math, first of you didnt have 8k armor, blatent lie.
Second even if you did have 8k, then the your new armor would be 6133 not less than 5k.
I would deffinatly prefere the way it was before, but the changes are not even close to beeing as gamebreaking as ppl make it sound, unless you're really bad at playing the class.
But then again if you're small, then even the small things will seem big.