Ask a Warrior Thread.

Top and bottom offers twice the potential compared to the overall, and you'll gain 10% ignore def for free.
Weapon comes with a free 30% boss damage outside of the set bonus.

I guess it all comes down to what goals you have and what your current gear gives. If you plan to scroll and pot to the max I think the top and bottom would give you more omph if you have an empress sword done, but the fafnir weapon really is a big improvement over the empress one, even if they have the same attack and pot.

If you can, just get the whole set and use empress and Visitor PQ stuff. Or Tyrant, if you can afford it.

I already got the whole empress set including the shoulder.

My emp sword is 221 att: 35% boss 9% total damage Str 9%

I mainly want to boss. In the past i was able to get top 10 gloves with no problem, but now with this dojo change the gloves are out of my reach again =/ So i need to do some types of upgrades