Sipahi Set

[Schlim1]

Yeah the Gloves and the Hat are nice, I would like to have the Alpine War Jacket instead, and my Bladedancers Jackboots are sweet, but all in all i like the set, looks useful. Would be nice if they added in a bonus for completing the set to make it more appealing.

[REDace0]

How to get these fabulous items. Thanks Bluegartr!

[Akuun]

Other than a couple of chest pieces like merc pants and sentinel gear (- the pants) these sets are garbage compared to nq gear with 1 piece of materia.

Yoshi himself has said in an interview that he plans for dropped pieces to be better than HQs, but not better than HQ + 1 materia, which will soon be guarantied HQ and 1 materia is 100% so drops will still be junk.

My personal opinion is that they need to stop replacing gear with better gear every patch and that crafted shouldn't be better than difficult to obtain NM drops. Instead make the gear equally good each patch, just different. It may not work as well as it did in 11 due to pieces being purely on situation and gear swapping being a must, but it should help reduce this WoW effect that the game currently has.

[KRose]

It kinda depends though... better in what sense of the word?

Pugilist for instance can wear Sipahi Turban which has the highest STR for that slot. So for someone going for a STR build, there isn't a better piece regardless of HQ or Materia at the moment since you cannot slot STR or even Attack for that matter to head pieces.

I'm not saying it works like that for the entire set but it's something to think about.

[Akuun]

I did say other than a couple pieces. (though it should read few pieces)
Since there really isn't anything materia wise that really benefits melee for the head slot Sipahi and Merc pieces are probably the 2 best pieces for DD and evasion builds

[panzertroll]

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[tymora]

My personal opinion is that they need to stop replacing gear with better gear every patch

Just don't do it for 7 years like FFXI lol...