Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
This argument would be more believable if the people who espouse it didn't all want the females to be the ones getting the gear modifications. If half the people who agree with you wanted the basic Dark Knight set from that concept art to be just for women and that the men should be the ones getting stuff switched around to avoid looking like copies of the female form, then maybe you'd have a point. It's the very notion that the basic form is inherently male that leads to the whole problem.
Um, the entire context of this thread is a request not to modify DRK AF for female characters. That right there is why the notion that the basic form of the gear is inherently male, it's implicit in the topic of the thread. Throwing up a highly contrived point that ignores this as a response to my post, is no repsonse at all. I don't much care whether you find my argument believable or not because you've very effectively shown that you skipped the context of the discussion.

Aside from that, it's fair to say that the majority of armor sets in this game have a very clear and definite male feel to them. Once again I fail to see why female avatars have to wear such gear sets, rather than ones that have ben modified to fit their form. if that situation were reversed, I would make the same argument for male avatars. To some extent it's possible to make that argument already with DoM gear, although typical casters in other cultural references usually wear robes of one sort or another, which does rather weaken the case.