While I found the Allagan Luminous Surcoat a great and aesthetically pleasing design, I thought it was visually too similar to designs already implemented in the game. It is certainly not the worst in my opinion but I felt like if I wanted to pick a design to see in the game, I wanted to choose one that wasn't already similar to the sets in game.

For that reason I also hoped these others would have been chosen from the runner ups:
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/GearD...h9ot1p/019.jpg
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/GearD...h9ot1p/037.jpg

I would have included this set in my finalists if I could.
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/GearD...h9ot1p/012.jpg

While aesthetically very nice, I thought this http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/GearD...h9ot1p/026.jpg was more of caster set than a tank set.