well I would say it depends on what you are planning.
I’m wearing shade top and bottom, vubbe gloves and roxona boots. 800+ evasion without Guardian and level 50 leather attribute. what I was planning is to be evasion based and at least be able to dodge 80% physical damage and only have to worry about magic, but the new update is hard on evasion it seems.
leather sets usually contains better stats for dps, while plates tend to go for survivability (with the exception of demonas and oghmar). still waiting for a pierce glove, kinda like demonas/oghmar but its probably never gonna happen. lol.