Full Perle

[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.