Quote Originally Posted by Lukha View Post
What I really want to know, though is why this outfit was chosen in the first place if it couldn't be made as-is for whatever reason. There was no community voting on the sets, all winners were chosen by SE reps, so there's really no excuse to pick something that they can't or won't render faithfully to the original design.
Ooo! Reading this made me go back to check their comment on the winning entry on the lodestone:

We received a wider variety of designs in this category of the gear design contest when compared to the Tank edition. This lead to quite a bit of trouble when it came to selecting a grand prize winner, but in the end, we chose this design based on the fact that it was something we’d never done before. The design will really force the dev. team to answer questions about how they would replicate aspects of this design into the game. It seems the team took up this challenge, and the character designers and animation designers are already racking their brains trying to think how to replicate the cloak and flames. We’re expecting to feature a ranged magic DPS outfit that has never existed before, so please look forward to it!

Suppressing my inclination to break this comment down sentence-by-sentence and make snide remarks, I will say that it's almost like the outfit was chosen just to experiment some things; faithfulness to the original be damned.