Lity, unless you are going to increase the strength requirement for those higher level armors and weapons. The reason being, you can currently run around with 15str wearing:
heavy plate
plate mittens
sugarloaf helm
black greaves
All that armor, which is a shitton....and wield weapons like.....
bec de corbin
danish greatsword
any 1h you want
arbalist
hornbow
jarids
Seriously unbalanced gameplay. You want to have the community move to balanced builds, then adjust the str requirements so they are balanced about 18str.
Cause right now, you can easily roll a 15-24.