How about giving use to dark totems and adding new armour in the process?
My suggestion is to leave skotizo the way he is. Add vespula to a new an instance which requires a dark totem to enter. This would give vespula a use since its not used in raids. (If you want to sue in raids you could always just design a new boss).
The boss could drop new armour with the same defence bonus as bandos but no strength bonus and instead an accuracy bonus in meele stats, such as +14 for the whole set or around that area. This would give the armour a niche use such as at corp or even tecton.
What are your thoughts ?