In my mind this may actually hurt armorers and/or tailors. The T9 armor recipes already pale in comparison to shard gear. Making T2 shard gear easier to obtain will probably hinder us even more. That being said, brellium ore is in scarce supply on LDL at the moment, so people are either using it for 90 BG gear (possible, but unlikely), T9 MC (if so, for appearance or because they don't feel like grinding any shards), harvest depots (higher chance) or resist jewelery (highest chance seeing as T9 armor has no resists).
Ah well. Role with the punches I say!