Quote Originally Posted by Yuraq View Post
I think glamour is truly completely arbrirary. lorewise, you can see Papalymo, A THAUMATURGE sporting plate gauntles, Yda's legs are clad in those tank-only sabaton models, pretty sure she's a pugilist.
All the Archons wore mismatched gear like that because that was also how they looked in version 1.0, which originally had no class restrictions on gear - instead you had 'recommended class and level', but you could equip any piece of gear on any class at any level if you wanted to. You coped a massive stat penalty though if you equipped a piece of gear that was not recommended by class, such as tank gear on a mage, or was more than 5 levels above or below the 'recommended' level, but you could still do it. The thing is though, players complained about it - they wanted gear to be restricted to class and level, and thus SE changed the game accordingly - adding AF and relic as a start that was restricted to a Job and level 50, and ARR just built on that.

Thus the Archons carried their 'non-recommended' class gear into ARR - considering that with Heavensward SE has been giving them entirelly new outfits that more closely resemble/are more appropriate their classes, it's obvious SE are trying to move beyond this 1.0 holdover, so don't read into it to much.

Basically, players wanted class/level restricted gear, and SE gave them what they wanted. So if you don't like this, blame other players, not SE.