I've the Rabanastre Jacket, and I've to say... The stats are good, quite better than the Allagan one. And it's not ugly.
And I agree, I don't see so much difference on a dummy with a better stuff, but it's quite hard to play with Wildfire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swx8T85ElZ8), we have to know the whole fight to line it up.