What's up with the Monster Hunter armor?

[Wanzer]

I'm not against the idea of an "Eorzean made" thing, but some details are missing or are totally out of place, especially about World. There is no scoutflies, the wings on the female armor aren't wyvern's wings and the colour scheme is not quite accurate too (they went for bronze instead of steel - in FFXIV, the metal pieces are mostly bronze or gold, so I guess we are lucky this time). Even the headpiece is too close to things we already have in the game (a lighter headpiece exists in Monster Hunter, on the rathalos beta variant, but they didn't use it as reference). At first sight, it's hard to tell it's something inspired by Monster Hunter. It could have been an armor from a regular dungeon that nobody would have said "eh, wait a minute, it's rathalos !"

It's not a bad design, and I do like some of the details on them, but it could have been great during Heavensward since some of these details are close to this era ; however, I still think they should have went for the original rathalos armor à la FFXIV. The point of this event is also to celebrate both series, and there is nothing more iconic than rathalos and its armor set.

Oh, and a bit off-topic, I think a wingdrake with the grappling hook instead of Rathalos as mount would have been much better, but I'm probably too picky about that. ( '-')

So where is the Eorzean version of the Yokai minions and weapons? (And that mount..) Where is the eorzean version of the Garo stuff? Honestly it feels strange to have them using that reason for this event, while completely ignoring that especially the Yokai stuff looks so out of the Eorzean style..well the gear will just gather dust anyway (since the female version is just another skirt..) and I am just doing this for the minions.

When I read the reasons behind the Monster Hunter armor my first thought was the mount from the Yokai event, then my character stucks inside and bobbling here and there.

The skirt is another detail that bugs me. It could have been something close to the massive belt from the original design instead of just another skirt.


SE, give me back my scoutflies!