every time that monk armor shows up I just want to go into a fit of rage; we're supposed to be monks, not gypsie dance kings. The artifact armor for 1.0 and 1.5 looks pretty decent; they looked like normal monk attire. Every thing before and after that is just awful though, it doesn't exude the personality of what the monk is - a warrior who uses sheer will and the power of his body to decimate his opponents. Instead it looks like we rolled around in the back of some theater dressing room, bursted out and yelled "Ta-da!".

Every other class their gear contains elements of their motif. Warriors get heavy armor or animal pelts, paladins get your typical knightly armor or something which looks holy, dragoons have a great deal of dragon aspects incorporated into their armor, etc.

Did the designer get Dancer and Monk mixed up? Because that's what it feels like.