xyz said:

In most areas  the Saracen gear is outperforming your specialist ranged gear.

What you have to consider is the Saracen gear  gives its benefits no matter what troops you are attacking with or defending against.

What are you basing this on? So youre saying the troop specific gear from the clan stronghold gets outperformed by saracen gear? No. 

Focus on one troop type. Always. Even if your gear supports all troops, your hero skills will not. 

alright, I see what you mean, im more familiar with special gear being called troop speciality gear, troop tier1 gear and tier 2

Saracen is also required to craft some special equipment., so its a good stepping stone till one can get their hands on these gears.

OP got all the equipment though, he should ask someone to help him test attack on a tile to see the difference.