By Bahamut.Razorback 2012-07-21 10:28:57
The koenig set focus' heavily on VIT. Before pld/nin tanking became the norm, PLDs stacked VIT to boost defence and reduce the physical damage taken (this was long before gear with -pdt and -dt was readily available also).
Homam gave plds haste and fast cast. Useful for building tp (haste obviously) and recasting shadows and flash.
Ares was primarily a WS set and the body was for idling with refresh. The set also gave a +10% HP vs. the Koenig flat 170hp. This may be less but it also gave MP, atk, acc so a nice trade off.
Askar gave some ok stats. tbh I was never pushsed about it for pld. Feet were ok for -%dt
Though typically the good plds never used full sets of any of these. Everything is situational. Though I do understand wanting a set because it looks nice.