Artifact Sets are Uninspired

[Roda]

Idk i like them? Rdm and smn are fun plays on the setting and premise, dnc and rpr look PHENOMINAL. The new jobs have nice looking sets,, if a bit basic.. The tanks all do a good job at representing their jobs. I will give you that the healers' sets are about as inspired as their current gameplay tho.

[LuciaMirain]

I honestly can barely tell all the red mage sets apart.
When it comes to the other sets, primarily the WHM one. I understand that they have to be white and red, I really wish they would stop making ROBES or LONG DRESSES and instead made a set of a top and a skirt so it would be a bit mor varied how we use them. Im guessing with the 2-dye option coming it wont matter that it is white and red so my only focus is really on build of the pieces.

[Wasselin]

I think these look great! I don't think relic sets are the place to get super outlandish since they are primarily meant to be specific to the job so it's important for them to share similar elements with what came before.

I especially like botanist. I didn't see it here but I liked what I saw of white mage in the benchmark itself.

Also being daramined, it's important to realize these might get another look and minor updates before release.

[LilimoLimomo]

I can't speak on most of these, especially because the data-mined images you linked don't always show headgear, which is so important for many of these classes. I feel like I really can't judge these sets without that.

But I will say that this Summoner set is a home-run. It keeps some basic colors and shapes that are recognizably Summoner while using materials and a style that seems to draw from Tural's culture. That's absolutely fantastic and I love it. Fresh yet familiar.

Other than that, I see some flourishes that I find neat here and there. Chesty Red Mage, chesty Reaper, tribal tattoo mid-riff Warrior, a "Kung-Fu" aesthetic Monk...these are pieces I look forward to trying on and seeing out in the wild.

In addition, it will be interesting to see how these work with 2 dye channels...that's another way they may distinguish themselves from the existing AF we have, if different sets use those channels in different ways.

[Kaseladen]

Without the hats its a little hard to judge but I like a few of these quite a bit (Summoner especially)
That said, a few look a little wonky (as others have pointed out with Viper on females).
Reaper has had some good variation as a new job, has a theme it sticks to but you can tell the sets apart, but Sage keeps getting the same boring setup.
I would like a warrior or paladin set to not look awful for once though

[AvalonBright]

Some of them are fine, but it really does feel like they're not trying much with AF sets a lot. Especially as a RDM main uh... Yep. That's a RDM alright. Again.

[HollowedDoll]

Let's be real a lot of the AF gears peaked at 70
Out of these I think like RDM RPR and the new class VPR ( Edward Kenway ♥ )
RDM hasn't had a good AF gear in 2 expansions imo, so it's all very subjective.
At least these will be dyable presumably without much grinding.

[ameliaw]

Hmmm yeah I must agree, some of these look like previous sets a bit too much.

[Laerune]

Personaly, I like them, the only one that I dont like is the Red Mage, but Red Mage without hat looks odd.

[HeyMcFly]

I love all of them, especially AST. I like the pretty mage look & I like how it looks soft. Like Merlin almost- I do wish it had gold embroidery on the collar.
the ones I don't care for are viper and scholar