Artifact Sets are Uninspired

[LilimoLimomo]

I can't speak on most of these, especially because the data-mined images you linked don't always show headgear, which is so important for many of these classes. I feel like I really can't judge these sets without that.

But I will say that this Summoner set is a home-run. It keeps some basic colors and shapes that are recognizably Summoner while using materials and a style that seems to draw from Tural's culture. That's absolutely fantastic and I love it. Fresh yet familiar.

Other than that, I see some flourishes that I find neat here and there. Chesty Red Mage, chesty Reaper, tribal tattoo mid-riff Warrior, a "Kung-Fu" aesthetic Monk...these are pieces I look forward to trying on and seeing out in the wild.

In addition, it will be interesting to see how these work with 2 dye channels...that's another way they may distinguish themselves from the existing AF we have, if different sets use those channels in different ways.

[Kaseladen]

Without the hats its a little hard to judge but I like a few of these quite a bit (Summoner especially)
That said, a few look a little wonky (as others have pointed out with Viper on females).
Reaper has had some good variation as a new job, has a theme it sticks to but you can tell the sets apart, but Sage keeps getting the same boring setup.
I would like a warrior or paladin set to not look awful for once though

[AvalonBright]

Some of them are fine, but it really does feel like they're not trying much with AF sets a lot. Especially as a RDM main uh... Yep. That's a RDM alright. Again.

[HollowedDoll]

Let's be real a lot of the AF gears peaked at 70
Out of these I think like RDM RPR and the new class VPR ( Edward Kenway ♥ )
RDM hasn't had a good AF gear in 2 expansions imo, so it's all very subjective.
At least these will be dyable presumably without much grinding.

[ameliaw]

Hmmm yeah I must agree, some of these look like previous sets a bit too much.

[Laerune]

Personaly, I like them, the only one that I dont like is the Red Mage, but Red Mage without hat looks odd.

[HeyMcFly]

I love all of them, especially AST. I like the pretty mage look & I like how it looks soft. Like Merlin almost- I do wish it had gold embroidery on the collar.
the ones I don't care for are viper and scholar

[Yencat]

I think they look pretty good! Monk, Picto, Gunbreaker and Summoner especially.

From what they showed previously the AST one is this really lovely velvet material that doesn't come across at all in the screenshots posted. That doesn't help if you just don't like the design of course, but in-game it will come alive a bit more.

But for me the star of the show is the Dancer one. The gradient colours, the material, that translucent sleeve and loose hanging bits of cloth, just gorgeous. It even beats the lvl 80 set for me. I hope it dyes well!

edit: wrong lvl.

[Ryok95]

I agree they look very bland and safe
Also the female viper set just looks like they just stretched it to the female form and didn't bother to change anything, despite the concept art. Pretty disappointing compared to some AF armor sets from previous expansions

I haven't got the benchmark uploaded yet but I kinda wished they let the viper's hood be visible to vieras

[Yencat]

I haven't got the benchmark uploaded yet but I kinda wished they let the viper's hood be visible to vieras

Looking at the Viper trailer, the hood looks pretty form fitting and it appears to completely remove the hairstyle (and inexplicably his ears) on the Miqo'te, so there's a decent chance Viera can actually wear it when it's out.