The Weathered noct Lorica on Females.....

[Estellios]

Functional armor isn't going to look sexy, guys.

I'm honestly pretty happy it's gender neutral instead of having an exposed stomach or cleavage "just because".

By the way, it looks way less bulky if you wear longer gloves like PLD AF/Myth gauntlets or Crafted gauntlets as the arm parts get covered up by it. I believe my friend said one of the crafted items matches really well with the Lorica.

[Gardes]

Functional armor isn't going to look sexy, guys.

I'm honestly pretty happy it's gender neutral instead of having an exposed stomach or cleavage "just because".

By the way, it looks way less bulky if you wear longer gloves like PLD AF/Myth gauntlets or Crafted gauntlets as the arm parts get covered up by it. I believe my friend said one of the crafted items matches really well with the Lorica.

This isn't about the lack of exposed stomach or cleavage though. If you switch back between heavy allagan, warrior myth, paladin myth, and the lorica quickly, you'll see that the lorica's torso is several sizes larger than the other 3 and are really apparent when you're wearing gauntlet glamours and the elbow guard is gone. The abs are also raised higher than the warrior relic's abs with the belt raised way higher than the other armors' waists. This is mainly due to the pecs. They're wider but their height is also shorter and raised higher. The metal skirt is also jutting out to the sides on the hips as if it's being padded for all races and gender, similar to female skirts atm (flat buttocks when wearing no skirt but wear a skirt and it'll look as if it's not flat but that's another issue), which bothers me quite a bit because it looks just plain weird.

I've also been looking around in mordhona for people with noct lorica and I've only seen one specific combination that does not look weird with noct lorica. Male roes. Male hyurs, male elezens, male miqotes all look as if their torso fattened up. Male elezens look like twigs with a barrel on their stomach. This armor makes it look like they all have smaller heads than normal.

I conclude that the team who made this, modeled the armor with male roegadyns as the base, copy pasted the armor on every other race and gender, resized it and then high-fived before calling it a day.

[saber_alter]

Functional armor isn't going to look sexy, guys.

its not functional.

-the arms clip through the body in idle poses.
-the elbow guards are too big, they would restrict movement by a lot.
-the chest plate isn't segmented, restricting movement.
-the shoulder plates would prevent anyone from moving their arms in any angle greater than 90 degrees.
-the middle strip of cloth that runs down the middle. definitely not meant for aesthetics, oh no.