Quote Originally Posted by Driskus View Post
Scrip gear isn't meant to be the best-in-slot gear. Its a stepping stone between normal gear and melded crafted gear. Typically you'd have to get crafted accessories and the offhand and meld them a bit. The rest you have to make up for by using food. This time around its actually not bad at all, and doesn't require much overmelding on the offhand & accessories to hit 1350 perception. See the post above for an example of the melds you'd need. If you were to overmeld the offhand more you can get away with lower-end food.
It's not about being the best of the best, it's that the augmented scrip gear does not allow you to meet the minimum threshold to gather HQ items by itself. This is unstandard.