I don't suggest things often, and in fact this may be my first direct suggestion out of years of playing.
Animated armors stream for wizards, and sorcerers. To prevent everyone from prism'ing it and it being the new "easy non-undead, but basically undead alternative!" as the new skeletons, it should be limited to wizards and sorcerers only, and deeper than your usual wizard (3-5-10) dips. With less HP pools than undead, so they're not quite outclassing the risk vs reward of necromancers.
Thinking, crit-sneak immune. Animated armors that alike skeletons have different chances to spawn with different weapons. 3-4 summons. Halberd, sword and board, maul, battleaxes, great axes, greatswords, and heavy flails; or bow and arrow maybe? Akin to the armors you see at the Arcane Tower.
Epic level variants, such as the "i.e: mummy dust equivalent" or "tier 6 or 7 equivalent" would grant unique vfx upon weapons. Rainbow and random, acid/fire/cold/lightning. Archers would get Epic Weapon Specialization: Longbow, Improved Critical: Longbow, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot. Available maybe at LV 28, for balancing reasons for going full class progression?
I know that summons are really content where they are, but I felt wizards and sorcerers were really lacking summons that weren't elementals and not the mordenkainen's sword. Whether or not to grant them true seeing either is up for balance debate in the team. I come here with the idea, but care not how it's implemented. It is my only hope that one day it would be. It doesn't sound too difficult to implement. Rid of the head, and biceps to make it appear as an "animated armor" and use helmed horror sounds, you're good to go I'd like to think.
EDIT: After talking with some others, they think it would be a nice addition for transmutationists. Make them especially weak, and have to be "awakened" with the extended range of transmutation zoo buffs. The buff that transmutation specialists, or focused transmutation arcanists (in the sake of sorcerers) would need. It would exist as a great alternative for transmutation wizards that aren't shoehorned into being battlemages without being spellsword. A great alternative without majority of them having to turn to evil, and use necromancy summons. GSF and ESF Transmutation could buff this stream in a way similar to how Animal Domain or Conjuration works for elementals, or necromancy for undead. Lower tiers of the stream could be animated objects or weapons, such as individual weapons, battleaxes, swords, sword and boards, so forth. Their counter as a stream, could be player's uses of the crumble spell, as there is various sources of VS construct damage on the server that can now be put to good use. Including cleric domains that can turn constructs.
