Crafting: Full sets?

Going into 1.19, I'm growing more worried about whether or not we're going to see a repeat of the gear scaling we've had since launch. The scattered pieces of gear - the incomplete sets. Unless I'm mistaken, there's been no official word saying that they're going to introduce full sets of crafted equipment for every class, just that we'll obviously be getting new gear. But will it again be only half sets?

As it stands, we have very little full-sets that can be crafted. (High ranking. I'm not talking about low rank sets at the moment, which we do have plenty of.) In fact, the only one I can think of is the plate set. That has a head piece, chest piece, gloves, boots, and belt all the same rank and part of the same set. Haubergeons come in a close second with a head piece, chest piece, and boots.

Other classes just have a jumble of random pieces of gear that they end up having to piece together to make full sets. Often of varying ranks and usefulness. Let's take pugilist for example. If you were to go the crafted route, the highest rank gear available just doesn't match up - both set-wise and rank-wise.

Highest rank head piece is 48 - A silver Tricorne, not matching to any set.

Highest rank chest piece and gloves 45 - Harrier's Jackets, which only match spiked leather armguards.

Highest rank belt is again only 45 - a voyager's belt.

Highest ranked boots are R43 - armored caligae.

Most of those pieces of equipment aren't even optimal choices, simply the highest ranked pieces of gear.

Am I the only one who is nervous about this happening again, or is everyone else confident in SE's ability to deliver full sets of same-rank equipment for every class?

For the most part, the gear is quite harmonious, and so it can be quite fashionable to mix and match stuff. But I guess that's a fair point to make. For Pugilist, it's almost like the more stupid you look, the stronger you are. Iron gloves, pirate hat, armourged caligae... it's not really a good look.

We'll probably get full sets or at the very least several options of styles for each slot, since their plan for equipment is to make it so you can customize your ideal appearance through various means to suit your combat needs. With dye restrictions being less lenient we should at least be able to get colors that match.

i would like to see gear sets that give additional boni if combined as well, i always liked that idea. for JSE or something like that.

Was discussing this with some people in my LS the other day, we definitely need more complete sets.

One of the coolest things about Monster Hunter (yes I'm going there again) was that each wyvern/boss had its own full set of armor/weapons that could be made from it and they all resembled what they came from. It would be cool for all the big NMs/bosses to have their own full sets to be made from them. It would certainly keep some of them relevant due to the number of kills it would require to get all the materials at the very least.

Aside from the NM/boss sets, I think we just need more sets in general. Some things you can piece together but are inevitably missing one or two pieces which is annoying at times.

I know what you mean about mixing and matching. It took me quite a while to work out a good rank 10-20 PUG set for Ren that actually looked good. Ended up with blue cotton shirt, blue cotton kecks, black dodo shoes and black dodo wristbands with a brass circlet and a bit of evasion jewellry. It looked really good till I hit the rank 20's but now I'm wearing Eternal Shade and it's hard to find a pair of trousers to go with it. At least the Zorro mask from Nest Commander and Howling Claws kinda match it though.

The pink canvas conjurer set works too, but there's no shoes to go with it. Seems the biggest problem with these sets is finding a decent pair of shoes to complete the whole thing.

We do need more complete matching sets, otherwise we end up with people running around looking like our clothing was patched together by Picasso!