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As always the primary source to look at for this discussion is the Wiki on Racial weapons and armor
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Introduction
Quote from the source: "Let's say for example you have the Eagle set or something, right: The Eagle set has in art, it has a thematic design that's going to include certain attachments to the armor. It's going to include color palette and theme. It's going to have some aspects to it that define it as the Eagle set, right. When a Elf wears the Eagle set or when an Orc wears the Eagle set, you obviously have two different cultures there; and you don't want to stomp out that culture by assigning a de facto 'This is the Eagle set and this is how it looks on everybody.' What we want to have is cultural influences play a role in showing how that set looks." - Steven Sharif
So as written in the quote we have a fairly straight forward answer to what seems to be the current intent, which is to offer a racial appearance for all armor sets. This however raised a few questions on my end and I hope to get a discussion going regarding that or just simply finding the answers to them as they might be somewhere I haven't looked yet.
The main topic
There are factions (of which we can find/craft armor sets) clearly associated with a specific culture or race, let's take as an example the Oakenbane Keep which is the former academy of the Aelan Empire that we have seen during the tank showcase. This specific zone is associated with the Aelans Empire and the Aelans are split into the two races of Kaelan and Vaelune humans. As such it would make sense that even if a Dwarf were to join the ranks of the military academy and get an armor set the displayed alignment in my opinion would logically still remain that of human origin.
In light of the fact that crafted armor will tend to be better than quest reward gear and drops (in most cases): Should racial appearance be primarily associated with crafted armor as a visual sign of it being better (because it has been adjusted to the one wearing it)? Of course I am aware this is mainly a question for race associated armor sets.
And on a more general note: Would you want to be able to at some point be able to wear armor in another races style?
As always the primary source to look at for this discussion is the Wiki on Racial weapons and armor
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Introduction
Quote from the source: "Let's say for example you have the Eagle set or something, right: The Eagle set has in art, it has a thematic design that's going to include certain attachments to the armor. It's going to include color palette and theme. It's going to have some aspects to it that define it as the Eagle set, right. When a Elf wears the Eagle set or when an Orc wears the Eagle set, you obviously have two different cultures there; and you don't want to stomp out that culture by assigning a de facto 'This is the Eagle set and this is how it looks on everybody.' What we want to have is cultural influences play a role in showing how that set looks." - Steven Sharif
So as written in the quote we have a fairly straight forward answer to what seems to be the current intent, which is to offer a racial appearance for all armor sets. This however raised a few questions on my end and I hope to get a discussion going regarding that or just simply finding the answers to them as they might be somewhere I haven't looked yet.
The main topic
There are factions (of which we can find/craft armor sets) clearly associated with a specific culture or race, let's take as an example the Oakenbane Keep which is the former academy of the Aelan Empire that we have seen during the tank showcase. This specific zone is associated with the Aelans Empire and the Aelans are split into the two races of Kaelan and Vaelune humans. As such it would make sense that even if a Dwarf were to join the ranks of the military academy and get an armor set the displayed alignment in my opinion would logically still remain that of human origin.
In light of the fact that crafted armor will tend to be better than quest reward gear and drops (in most cases): Should racial appearance be primarily associated with crafted armor as a visual sign of it being better (because it has been adjusted to the one wearing it)? Of course I am aware this is mainly a question for race associated armor sets.
And on a more general note: Would you want to be able to at some point be able to wear armor in another races style?