Actually, I think it would be helpful if I were more constructive and actually said why I think they’re all ugly:
Heavy – …Looks like a robot. It’s also incredibly plain and symmetrical. The female pants are actually pretty cool, but the male version fails to match the rest of the armor, has very low detail in general, and the belts are just lame.
Medium – With the male version; the skirt is horribly rigid and fake, the studded belts across the chest are too S&M and don’t match the rest, and the shoulders are WAY too big and also fail to match the rest of the armor at all. All of the gears across the set look tacked on and don’t blend in well. Like pins or something.
The gloves are just a mess and don’t even match themselves let alone the rest of the armor (sharp change between hands and wrist).
The pants are just all kinds of bad without any redeeming features; they look like something a comic book superhero would wear. Which is bad. They’re not Steampunk, and I could never picture them on an actual person outside a hardcore Sci-fi setting.
The boots are WAY too bulky, too many belts, and match nothing else in the set except the gloves, which also match nothing else.
The set as a whole also has much too strong of an Asuran feel. I understand that the Sky Pirates are working with the Inquest, but Asuran gear only looks good on Asurans. The Inquest dungeon armor suffers this same problem, much like the Twilight Arbor armor and Sylvari.
More of that wool pattern seen on the gloves and boots should have been woven into the rest, like a visible undershirt made of it with a collar, and the Asuran pattern should have been replaced with a more rugged Steampunk pattern.
With the female version; the chest is too shapeless and bulky with a big ugly spotted area right in the center, the skirt matches neither the rest of the outfit nor the theme itself by breaking off into full-blown cyberpunk (more Inquest theme problems), the shoulders have the same problem as the male version, and the boots are very bulky and plain. The pants and gloves are both basically fine.
Light – on the Male version; the chest is good, the shoulders share the same problems as the Medium armor, the gloves don’t match the chest and have a clumsily abrupt and plain end at the forearm, the pants share the same issue as the Medium armor, the boots are totally plain and devoid of any real style or detail, and the skirt is both rather plain and fails to match the chest piece at all.
With the female version, the skirt is good overall but flares out too much, the chest is horribly bulky and shapeless, the shoulders are just all over bad, and literally no two pieces in the entire set actually match. At all.
Every version suffers from a few problems. The biggest issue is that they’re supposed to be Steampunk, yet Inquest style was ham-fisted in for arbitrary reasons despite being a completely different theme; Cyberpunk. It’s all a mixed up mess as a result.
The other problems would be the helmets and shoulders. They’re all horribly bulky and just irredeemably hideous in every regard on top of failing in every case to match the rest of the set properly. Like they were lazily tacked on just to have them, without even trying to tie them into the rest of the outfit.
