I think silver-plated legs are better than mithril greaves for bards,
but this is just my opinion. Mithril Vambraces on the other hand simply
cannot be beat by anything else a bard can equip. The arms are ac 10 +7
str +5 sv magic if my memory is serving me well, while imbrued are ac 16
+9 intel +10 sv vs poison. The mithril still have clearly better stat
modifiers than imbrued, but I wear the imbrued for 1) color-matching, 2)
I felt it would be selfish to keep mithril when I was lucky enough to
have gotten planes armor (mithril goes back to guild), 3) That ac 16
becomes +27 ac with my AGI.

On Oppaline earrings, I think these are fantastic for bards, and many
enchanters wear them. Like Elwyn I still wear mine at 50, and have seen
nothing that even interests me as a possible replacement. A Fishbone
earring is very useful, but I swap that in for Kedge, not something I
wear full time.

Ariell Thunderwolf, Karana