Quote Originally Posted by Awful View Post
The shire gear is pretty terrible nothing but parry and accuracy however, if you don't raid it is a straight upgrade over lore the only contenders are the crafted gear pentamelded and with materia being cheap and easy to get it's not that much of an issue. The problem with Shire gear is that the parry is not needed and accuracy is barely needed and i've seen tanks with like 900 accuracy and tons of parry while their crit det n are super low with sks being really really high which leads to TP issues as a pld.

It's either raid and be well optimized or stick it out with Shire gear and have terrible stats all round.
Uhm... That is misinformation.

The full i260 Shire tank set has 696 Accuracy (most of the Alex Savage requirement). Only way you are seeing tanks with over 911 Acc is if they have the Shire body, pants, feet and earrings and the Proti-Alex head, hands, bracelet and neckband. At that point every piece but the belt and rings has accuracy on it.