With all the complaints with the changes to cranial which is now affected by your opponents headwear ... perhaps an echo would be useful. This would atleast give the mace spec an idea how your opponents headwear is affecting their cranials. I believe if you were trying to smack your opponent over the head you would notice how much protection your opponent is getting from their helm.

You bring a blacksmith's forge hammer around to hit Warrior's head!
Your cranial hit is somewhat slowed by Warrior's Great Battle Helm.
Your cranial hit MANGLES Warrior!

Perhaps a few different adjectives: barely, somewhat, etc.
Anyway you get the idea.

The help file states that: "This ability is most effective against a foe wearing soft headgear, or none at all." Can you be a bit more specific about that is it the kind of headgear that affects it i.e helm, crown, circlet, helmet, skull or the material or the AC or a combination of all three so we never know what kind of lag we will be doing Or will we only do the two round lag on someone wearing a crown, circlet, cloth helm?

Cheers