Late Allagan what?!?!?

[ArianeEwah]

You do realize this set was actually based on a design made by a player who won a competition SE ran last year? Maybe SE shouldn't do 'design your own armour' competitions anymore then if this is the sort of criticism they get. No matter what Yoshi and his team does it's always wrong to someone.

The design was actually a melee DPS only entry, everything else was SE design team decision. (announcement here)

[Caitlyn]

Tank gear may look a bit clunky, but mostly ok in my opinion.
Melee gear is slick and very sexy. I m jealous.
Mage gear is also nice, because you can look like an operator or something.

... ...

but WTF happened with RANGED? A slight modifaction of the melee gear would be so nice, but Ranges are the thin version of the tank gear. What am I? The heavy artillery robot?

Left is Melee, right is Ranged...

[Ultimatecalibur]

but WTF happened with RANGED? A slight modifaction of the melee gear would be so nice, but Ranges are the thin version of the tank gear. What am I? The heavy artillery robot?

My guess is that the Ranged set was originally going to be the Maiming version with the Maiming version being the originally intended Ranged version, but they realized that technically the contest was to design both Maiming and Striking gear.