Quote Originally Posted by dynus View Post
It might be better to have Fending gear as body and the Casting Gear as accessories, though.
Then it would be severely lacking in health compared to the other way around since Casting accessories don't have Vitality on them.

As for the Scouting gear argument, it's possible, but the sole reason why Scouting gear exists is because of stylistic components (a.k.a. make them not look like bards) since the longer-standing implementation of Aiming gear makes Scouting gear statistically redundant. Yes, they could have "Warding" gear, but it would mostly be a glamour thing unless they were REALLY desperate to make it statistically unique to current Casting armor.

The other thing to factor in for another armor type is that it's one more armor type on the loot tables. Ever get annoyed when you down an awesome boss with great loot that no one can use because no one there's playing a job that the loot's for? Yeah, Warding gear would just expand that issue.