Full Perle

[Dauntless]

I tend to associate full perle/aurore/teal users as "noobs" (being the general term for incompetent) because of the lack of effort it takes to obtain these gear sets. It tells me that they either don't care to improve themselves, or they simply display ignorance because someone else told them it was cool. In either of these cases, I don't care what you do personally, it's your choice, but I won't associate myself with you, and that's my choice.

It's not like Empyrean armor is hard to come by. If you have one or two good friends who also want to upgrade armor, you can do pretty much anything Abyssea has to offer if you guys are focused and skilled enough. Seriously. I've got about 8 jobs worth of new armor give or take, some are full sets all blue box, and I obtained these farming mostly with only one friend. You can do it too if you put the effort into it and stop getting babied around all the time.

Salvage has been made much much easier now especially with the 3 person minimum instead of 6. At least Salvage gear looks prettier and still takes some time and effort to obtain. You're likely better off sporting old gear over perle simply because people would respect you more as a player. Unless you were one of those Scorpion Harness sporting DDs.

If you want serious, specific advice on the directions your should take on your priorities, feel free to PM me. I can give you a big list of chores that will get you where you want to go.

Hrmm I see no PM function on the forum. ;/

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Hrmm I see no PM function on the forum. ;/

It's not that kind of forum.

[Yashii]

Im just going to say this to get it out there, It is Acceptable for DRG and DRK to full perle. ONLY DRG and DRK.

And heres where I justify it. (atleast for DRK)

Unless a DRK has E body and Dusk gloves +1, there is no reason to not full Perle, The only gearset that beats it out is Homam E. Body and Dusk +1 gloves. (Its been parsed somewhere.)

I dont know about you guys, but I dont have the 20m(Ifrit Price) just lying around for Dusk gloves +1.

So. I dont associate Perle with n00b, unless you're doing it on WAR/PLD or anything like that.

JUST LIKE FULL PINK NINs. /rage.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Im just going to say this to get it out there, It is Acceptable for DRG and DRK to full perle. ONLY DRG and DRK.

It's ok, I play sam in +72 eva.

[Nacht]

Im just going to say this to get it out there, It is Acceptable for DRG and DRK to full perle. ONLY DRG and DRK.

And heres where I justify it. (atleast for DRK)

Unless a DRK has E body and Dusk gloves +1, there is no reason to not full Perle, The only gearset that beats it out is Homam E. Body and Dusk +1 gloves. (Its been parsed somewhere.)

What kind of shit is this? any set with more haste will beat perle, which is not that hard to do for drg or drk.

Full perle is NOT acceptable if you've put any reasonable effort into getting seals.

[Yashii]

It's ok, I play sam in +72 eva.

Its okay, You gotta evade the rape from the awesome WS damage you do lol.

[Kwate]

The way I see it is, people tend to wear pearl and jobs that they do not really care about as much as other jobs. For example, I use AF3+2 for my MNK because I love MNK, but if I were to be on BST or another job I am not interested in enough to aquire AF3, then I would usually wear pearl because it is very very easy to get and the full set can go on most DD jobs. I remember when Perle first came out and people thought it was amazing. I think people are just tired of seeing it.

IMO, due to how easy it is to obtain and how many jobs can equip it, Perle is tends to be associated with a lack of effect which in turn is then related to (n00bs). As for the gear itself, it is not that bad of a set, and it is certainly better than most gear people used pre-abyssea.

Bingo. you hit the nail on the head.

[Komori]

People have to wear something while getting said seals...don't they?

Aurore, Pearl and Teal don't bother me as long as the person in them isn't asking me what weapon skills or spells are or something.

[Mirage]

What Komori said. Full AF3+1, while not super hard to get, isn't done in a day if you've just started with all the abyssea stuff. There could be a lot of things you have to catch up with, and removing a single piece of the perle set also removes the bonus, so it might not be worth doing while you only have some of the AF pieces, not for TPing anyway.

When I try to find out who is a dumb player or not, I look for stupid gear choices more than which "tier" the armor is of. Full perle, while not optimal, is not a stupid choice. Combat behavior is also a much better to use to identify poor players than if they're wearing bleeding edge gear or not.

[Karbuncle]

My Opinion on Full Perle.

Full Perle should only be considered a "Gateway" Armor, Once you get even 1-2 Pieces of your +1 Empyrean, For most jobs, thats where Full Perle stops becoming useful. You should never be happy or Comfortable in full Perle, It should be "Okay, This is base ground, Now i need to get out of it as soon as possible".

Cause I'm forced to Agree with Nyr, those who generally wear Full Perle/Teal/etc Are generally those who either wear it cause it looks pretty, Or because they heard somewhere it was okay. I do not hate the people who use Full Perle as a Middle-Ground, I however, Dislike those who wear it like its the End-all Armor set of Awesome. Also I hate people who wear Perle Hands over Dusk or just odd things like 4/5 Perle and then Something stupid like a Haub or Askar head. (Which completely negates the idea of what makes full perle decent, the Set Bonus). those people irk me

At the least Full Perle isn't as awful as Full Pink.

I can never forgive Full Aurore gear. Its complete crap by even NQ AH Standards. I especially hate Thief's who wear Full Aurore. HTURGHIREUG It rages me so so hard. especially with items like Raparee harness iwfghwiueghwriughwrgu. I've gone and upset myself


TL;DR Perle is a Decent Gateway Armor, But try your best to replace it as soon as possible.