Warlock chest armor in D2 is awful except for the Forge chest piece. It looks like something a sith lord would wear..I haven't taken mine off since I got it.

[quote]Title. There’s so many impressive and diverse themes in the Destiny universe, and so many places to pull themes from, yet we end up with bland and boring gear. Why? Why is it the only really unique and thematic pieces are Exotics and SOMETIMES raid gear? Everyone always refers to Age of Triumph gear from D1 but that’s really an impressive feat on Bungie’s end. Why isn’t there more of that? Consider Last Wish. I was EXTREMELY disappointed with the Last Wish raid sets. The weapons weren’t TERRIBLE, but can you imagine if they looked more chaotic? They’ve got these nice little constellation patterns, but what if we had ornaments that replaced those nice constellations with the swirling Taken abyss? And the armor, COME ON. The Great Hunt set just looks like world drop legendaries. There’s even less Taken/Ahamkhara theme there. I was so disappointed to see the gear, but held out hope that the Prestige Last Wish would bring cooler gear or cool ornaments... but wait, no Prestige Last Wish. Scourge had a decent theme that followed the whole of Black Armory, but now with Crown of Sorrows we have this weird mashup of rusted, tarnished weapons and bright, flashy Calus armor. As it stands in Destiny there’s no Cabal themed armor despite an entire campaign focused around them, the Tangled Web set is the only Fallen themed armor (reskinned from the Taken King set without the Taken) (Scatterhorn doesn’t count. Look at the Hunter set and tell me that’s Fallen themed) there’s no Scorn Armor besides the random Scorned Baron chestpieces that don’t have random rolls, no Hive themed, no Vex themes except MAYBE the year 2 Omega Mechanos Set from EVERVERSE??? There’s so much room for really impressive armor sets but we end up with things like the Scatterhorn sets and it’s just really dissappointing. Tldr: Bungie, re-hire whoever you fired. There’s opportunity for some of the most impressive armor design in RPG history if you just take the initiative and work with what exists in the universe you’ve built. There’s fanart that really exemplifies this, with Cabal Gladiator Titan, Psionic Warlocks, War Beast Hunters sets, really really cool stuff.[/quote] Just a small correction: The tangled web set is originally from House of wolves. You mentioned Taken king so you might be refering to the reprised sets from the 2016 april update. Had to do it, it was bugging me.

The artists weren’t fired, they just moved on which is natural in the industry. I [i]really[/i] miss a few of the old artists, they hit my personal style right on the nose. The new artists are talented, but either their styles don’t vibe with mine or the art director is just trying out anything they can think of which leads to too much of a mix-and-match look. The armor styles are [i]very[/i] confused right now. I’d love it if they took a cue from the old Titan Spektar chroma set. Hands down my favorite armor set from D1. The Forge sets from D2 were also some of the better futuristic looks. I’m cautiously optimistic and I know they’re capable of making cool designs, but seeing the teaser armor from Shadowkeep reminds me they still haven’t gotten past the scavenged “trash” aesthetic just yet.

Agreed. D1 armour was better, although towards the end they did start to reuse armour assets and slap a new paint job on. With D2 they've been extremely lazy, weapon and armour design is awful and Hunters got the shaft big time with their homeless hobo look. The only decent armour sets are from Escalation Protocol, the rest are garbage.

D1 = Bungie D2 = Blandgie 😉

Barons have whole armor ser. Not just chest pieces

Hopefully shadowkeep has armor just as good or better than age of triumph stuff. Saw some blurry images of some possibly new sets during the vidoc, could be raid gear but it looked like it could be really cool. Definitely had a vex, black garden vibe.