I believe it was said that soft skills werent intended to offset pvp but someone in a warn plate carrier vs someone in a pristine plate carrier is most certainly not an even match. I recommend not changing the idea behind the skill but instead removing the slider and making them 2 seprate skills. This way its all about time invested in character, character importance. The incentive to keep your character alive instead of dying by a spawn and picking up your stuff for no reason if youre sick/low on blood/ect