Armor Appearance

Druley

I know each race has it own specific armor. A suggestion I have is that whichever race makes that armor it keeps that appearance if another race were to equip that armor. So for example if I were a dwarf and wanted to have the Vek armor appearance I would need to get the armor crafted from a Vek.

Ludullu

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Gear_appearance

Racial appearance of gear sets is tied to the character model of that race.[43]
When you say, what if I'm an Orc but want to look like an Elf and I want my Eagle set to be the Elf representation? Well the issue becomes there that Orcs have a different organic model. You know, their body is different than that of the Elf. So, from a scope-creep standpoint, it's one thing to add different influences that represent the cultures that are donning the armor; it's another thing to adapt each influence as a matrix that can be worn pretty much by everything. From a scope perspective, that's a very difficult task for the character artists to tackle. So instead what we've done is, in order to facilitate a variety of cultural representation between the races but allow for the sharing of assets like different armor sets, we give different representations of those armor sets to each race.[43] – Steven Sharif