Gunbreaker Armour Sets (Aesthetics)

[LunaProtege]

I'm okay with Gunbreaker being a tank, it makes as much sense as anything else. But for some reason I don't see any of the typical tanking armours looking good on them; more specifically all of the full plate sets.

Personally, I think they'd look better in something like the Scouting, Striking, or Maiming sets.

The couple of times I've brought this sentiment up with others, they've mostly said that people will probably just glamour over the plate stuff with their artefact gear anyways, and others just said they're fine with whatever so long as they don't wind up with a set that's only for one Job.

I don't know what I should expect, but I figured I'd bring this up anyways; see what discussion this brings.

[Khalithar]

I will grant you that breaker doesn’t really fit in to the heavily armored tank archetype. We will have to see what the new armor sets look like.

[Jandor]

It should wear fending sets.

I would be fine with it getting a trait that lets it wear striking sets (with reduced stats, basically as a glamour fudge.)

I say striking because if I was to add that trait to gunbreaker I'd just delete maiming altogether and give dragoon the same trait but for fending sets.

[mosaicex]

It will be wearing fending set, that much is certain.

That doesn't mean all fending sets will be full plate. There are plenty of non full plate fending sets already.

Midan set, Alexandrian set, Diamond set, Fillibuster set, Skallic set, just to name a few from top of my head.
There's also plenty of non-role restricted coat glamor pieces.

[Seraphor]

Most of the recent Fending sets have been 'lighter' anyway, they're generally all coats and capes with a bit of chest armour or maybe a pauldron.
It's only the very early game stuff that's 'full plate' and with GUN starting at 60, it wouldn't be needing them.

[Kazrah]

Gear aesthetics are one of the finer aspects of the game due to the fact that the player has full control. If you don't like the aesthetic, then glam over it with whatever you want. Personally though, I might just be one of those gunbreaker tanks in the knight armor look, but mostly because I like using the Augmented Wolfram chestpiece with the glowy shoulders so other players can see where I am whenever I tank stuff.

Also, I'm sure there's gonna be at least one man'qote or male roe gunbreaker rocking nothing but that one couerl-print subligar like a champ.

[Nora_of_Mira]

the real question is:

Will Gunbreakers be edgier than their Dark Knight brothers?

[Nedkel]

Wait till you see his short weapon in comparison to big bulky armour.

[Saix027]

In my eyes we need a reworks for armor overall, have shared armor still for certain classes but give each class its own look evne if they wear the same armor set.
Basically let the class decide the armors look while it still shares it with the other classes of the same roll.
While we at it i do hope we get a immense boost of the projection cabinets limit, its far to small, at best it should work like Guild Wars 2's wardrobe.

[Lastelli]

I don't know what I should expect

You should expect the same thing that happened with RDM and SCH: very limited glamour options within their role gear and extreme reliance on the glamour system.

Best case scenario: they actually start making role gear that cyclically caters more to a specific job. Will it happen? Who knows.