Ascended stuff gets common, and looks very uniform. Consider making some ascended only skins to differentiate.
It might be nice to have some semirealistic looking ascended stuff, I like how the musket looks, so what about a rapier (iirc the only exotic rapier in the game is pretty popular) and a matching stiletto for offhand?
Or maybe whole matching weapon and armor sets, like a japanese samurai, chinese warrior, german lancknecht, scottish highlander (shape the warhorn like a whisky bottle!), 15th century knight, 17th century musketeer, whatever.