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That would completely invalidate any reason to upgrade from fafnir.

Well, yeah. I'm not operating on the assumption that this set is actually any good, but instead what makes the most sense given the parameters of what they're trying to do, what they stated was supposed to happen. The fact that this set is 160 doesn't mean it has to be better than the 150 set, or even any good, it would make a lot of sense for it to be, but that isn't necessarily the case. As far as we know, you can only retain enhancement bonuses, which I would wager means all scrolling bonuses, and potential, which we now know only means rank, so I doubt you can actually transfer over anything else, including things like the attack difference between Empress equips and Fafnir equips, or the boss damage and ignore DEF.