Do all armor sets have racial appearance and should they?

I think the question should be "do cosmetics show their own racial style or do they change to fit the wearer's?" I personally want visual clarity for fights so I want item's own style to show up, but fuck me cause everyone will just wear cosmetics over their gear, so it's all pointless. And the whole point of a cosmetic is to show off its special look, so I'm guessing that it'll always show up as its base race style.

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Yeah, I'm still waiting for the details on this. If they really have no true limits on the stat dials - yeah, there'll be no difference between a crafted item with nearly randomized stats and just a cosmetic that hides the gear underneath.

As for the icon that shows the gear - unless it's always visible, it's useless. Ain't nobody got time to click on 8 different people during a super fast party pvp encounter just to figure out who's wearing what.

Though again, if the first point turns out to have 0 limits - this feature will be kinda pointless as well

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And that's roughly what I'm expecting. Which would mean that there'll be a rough spectrum of potential stats on an item, especially in the context of a class/archetype. So seeing the true gear would still give an idea of what stats the person might have, because there'd always be a certain meta for them.

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The style should always stay the same, but the form should change to fit the race. I loved how L2 did it.

This is a fanmade set afaik, but it demonstrates the point well and works how other sets worked. The base style is particular, but it looks different on different races and char types (L2 had inherent split into fighter and magic classes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i__D1LXiMTI

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No sense at all.

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Nope Guess I've just seen/given this response so many times that it's ingrained in my brain.

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Technically we do not. They haven't addressed it directly, only indirectly, and ignore clarifying questions about it rather than referring to a wiki quote or page like they normally do when they 'think the answer has been answered/obvious'. Probably because if they answer that question but not the freehold cosmetic questions it'll just bring more negative attention.

@Noaani , there are a few things that make it less cut and dry unfortunately. Costumes are separate from cosmetics, for example. Cash shop vs in game cosmetics again a completely different beast. Plus their promise to not have pay for advantage mechanics. There is more than just those points and just a lot that doesn't add up.

And again, whenever I and a few others have asked about if they /would/ require restrictions, they did not tend to point to that quote when it gets asked, they ignored them (in the Q&A.)

I encourage others to read https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Cosmetics for themselves as their cosmetic system is full of holes if you pay attention to their wording and phrasing.

Edit to respond to your edit: 'kinda'. But ultimately it's a (valid) assumption based on current data. I would rather they just give clear cut answers and therefore am in a position where I cannot assume.