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I'm curious what the thought process was when designing this body piece. And how through playtesting no one saw that people's arms clipped right through the obnoxious frills of the body piece. Or maybe they obviously did see it and just didn't care?
The set would look so much better without the side "skirts", side wings and tail.
SE has a tendency to make models that don't really fit with the default idle pose. The Ironworks tank body (as an example) is like that too, the hip area puffs out and clips like mad if you're just standing around.
Anyway, yeah, I don't like the hipwings at all. They don't fit the rest of the model's aesthetic and just sort of look like they were added so you know that it's a dragoon piece because hey, these are dragons, right? The tail can also get lost on the cutting room floor, because I would have rolled a race that has a tail if I wanted a tail.
The DRG Esoteric Gear is just horrible Imo.
It's clunky, clips like crazy, is WAY over the top in the "Look at my BS Armor Design" department, and as far as lore goes is completely impractical.
The Drachen and Wyvern Armors were suppose to be designed to be aerodynamic to help with the fact that we have to jump dozens to hundreds of feet in the air in order to fight a flying enemy while we're in mid fall.
All of these frills and decoration would do the exact opposite. Now could it be a ceremonial armor? Maybe. Or possibly a recreation of the Dragon Knight Armor of Eld that the Dragoon Corp recovered from the churning mists? Lore Wise, a good chance. But the design is completely observed for the way the job is suppose to work.
The amount of clipping in game is horrendous, it does make the game look cheap.
I thought se standards would have been far higher then that.