SE has made three generic armor types. First being the heavy type, usually with high attack / defense stats, second being light type with evasion / accuracy stats and the third being mage type, which is usually filled with crap "every mage" stats.\

I absolutely hate how they group all the casting jobs together on a piece with mediocre stats. BRD, SMN, BLM, WHM and ... RDM (kinda) require different stats for their spells and abilities, putting a bunch of half powered stats on a single piece doesn't make it good.