Meh, I'm not really a PvP guy anyways. It's entertaining to watch but its one of those things I enjoy to watch rather than play. I just hope we get one big update at some point that adds a ton of stuff for people to do.
Discussion on Xeon/PVP Gear
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The PVP gear is powerful, but only when completed as a full set. The set can be considered questionable to replace your VC set before that point, with marginal defensive gains traded for large offensive ones gradually (even as soon as two replaced items off your VC set will cause you to lose a huge amount of Critical Rate and Critical Damage).
The big hit in switching two pieces from Vicarious Calling to Shocking Sun is the 10% crit rate loss. Max crit damage for VC set is 430, and the 5 set bonus is +850, whereas max crit damage on SS is 1290. In theory you can gain 870 crit damage by replacing 2 pieces, and gain an additional 1720 crit damage by replacing two other pieces of armor. We also lose 20% damage on a skill depending on character by switching.
Extra bonuses for each piece of armor gives HP, 1145 for boots and head, 2285 for shoulders, 3430 for chest, totaling 8005 HP. SS shoulder and chest gives 2700 and 4500 respectively totaling 7400 HP, which is a 605 HP difference. SS also gains 280 evasion from the other two pieces, however much evasion is worth as I don't know. On top of that, some of the stats on SS are triple the cap that VC has, as already shown, the max crit damage on 1 piece of SS is triple the max of VC's. PvP gear isn't common yet to see all stats but attack, accuracy, and xp are triple the max cap. HP is double. Evasion and shorter cooldown are the same on both sets. Defense is also higher on the SS, but I'm not sure how much more defense you would get from comparable equipment, but judging from my limited experience, there would be about a 5% damage reduction rate comparing +6 armors of the same refinement, and probably a bigger difference the higher + you compare.
