Ugh, why did the Kaoru SRare have to be from the Production Match event of all things? My adorable little Kaoru ; ;
I'll keep her around then. Dress Collecting is a pain now because everyone has SRs at my level and I'm only hitting 48K attack atm since getting rares is super hard to do for an unverified player so I have a hard time just throwing them away. Valentines Chieri has been my leader since I first got her. I'll probably turn my Yukino into a medal whenever I max out her affection.
If you want to be cheap about it, you should be able to easily find opponents for the three common colors that have really low (often bare minimum) defense and no higher than a Rare as a leader. If you fight these same kinds of people between outfits, you can also go into your list of previous opponents and see if they have a rarer piece you need, then you just beat them again after selecting it.
Dunno how much the JPs frown on that, though.
As far as not being verified, I'm seeing some good improvements as I go along. I just picked up the costume rare for the newest job set (Mayu, unless there was another set added and the JP wiki hasn't been updated yet) last week and she has a higher attack boost ability than anyone else I've had. She's also looking to be my #2 as far as attack power goes. My attack is hanging over 61k in an ideal fight (both offense boosts activated and no stat drops from the opponent) and there's still room to grow since I haven't maxed her level yet. It just takes time to get to a good point. I'm level 74.