People act like it's a horrible thing for more and more of the population to start becoming annoyed or outraged by the hugely male-centric view in the world and especially within video games. How dare women (and men) be annoyed at always having female characters in games being treated as nothing more than a walking pair of breasts, and having no options other than scantily clad robes, scantily clad leather gear, or scantily clad platekinis. Yes, what a travesty it would be to the straight men of the world to have no almost-naked females to oggle and harass in an MMO.

Sorry if I don't shed any tears over how those sort of people feel. Maybe it's the fact I and many other women are tired of having no choice in character or armor besides "sexy" or "pedobait sexy".

Bottom line is, the AF gear should have very little differences in design between the genders. The DRG bellyhole and bard's shirtless vest were ridiculous and unneccessary, and many people would rather the DRK, Machinist, and Astrologian AF armor not go down that route again. Either make both gendered versions sexy, or make them covering. You can't have it one way for one gender and another way for the other.