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Theres a decent amount of armor in the game as is, and thats great! Having a variety and decent customization is pretty good for a game to have. However, a lot of the event gear is literally just reskinned versions of already existing armor. And thats where the issue lies and I think its time to suggest something a little more.
Personally, as someone who enjoys the game and could probably sit in the customization maxing and matching different armor sets and weapons for my characters, I think having a wider variety of armor and weapons for characters would be pretty cool. For example, for the Samurai story line, they show an Orochi without his helmet. Why can't we get that head gear for our characters? How about for the Knight's Warden, a helmet that resembles Apollyon's helmet? Or even a maskless Kensei?
These little tweaks to armor sets would be pretty cool, definitely bring more unique characters to the table, and widens the variety of armor sets across the playing field.
Knights
Warden - Faceless, battle damaged, or even opened helmets. Chainmail, chain and plated, or just plated armor.
Conquerer - opened or faceless helmets, chain or full plated armor
Lawbringer - (its already in story but...) Opened helmets
Peacekeeper - Unhooded helmets, helmetless hoods. Chainmail, or chest plates
Centurion - Maskless helmets and capeless armor (torn capes)
Gladiator - Weapon variant: Trident moveset but is a spear. Armor: Centurion styled armor parts, roman helmet variants
Viking
Raider - Helmetless or visorless helmet sets. More leather armor for the chests or arms.
Warlord - More chain or even fur styled armor.
Berzerker - Helmet or visorless headgear.
Valkyrie - Visorless, or even full headed helmets. Chest plates or chained but light armor.
Highlander - Full helmet, visorless helmet. Pants...
Shaman - Spiritual piercings through the face, helmets. Light plated armor, or even cloth armor similar to the Peacekeepers but in a Viking style.
Samurai
Kensei - Helmetless with the mask, maskless helmets, or even completely helmet and maskless head gear. Armor missing the shoulder plates or even scaled armor.
Shugoki - Honestly not much to do here for the masks as he is supposed to resemble the Japanese Oni. However, the armor could use styles similar to the Kensei such as with Kimonos, and more defensive looking armor.
Orochi - Helmetless, maskless, mempo styled masks, helmet and maskless head gear, Traditional style helmets much like the Kensei. Armor missing the shoulder plates, armor with a Kimono similar to the Kensei's, a flag representing the players emblem or specific pattern attacked to the armor (this may fit the Kensei more), or chestless armor (Kimono with the shoulder plates)
Nobushi - Maskless hats, hatless masks, or hat and maskless head gear. Samurai Armor covered with the open Kimono she usually wears. Kimonoless garb, Sleeveless or tattered sleeves, or even traditional Geisha top.
Shinobi - Not much to do here since the Shinobi's armor is a little too accurate to modity other than with whats in the game already.
Aramusha - Although the Aramusha is quite literally For Honor's take on a Ronin, he could wear: Samurai helmet with mempo, hatless masks, completely maskless and hatless head gear. Samurai chest plated armor, Kimono, or even Kimono covered armor (like the Kensei).
After doing a little bit of research, a lot of these armor sets could have been made so much more customizable then they already are, with a lot of classes typically sharing some of the same armor assets. And a small amount of whats listed is aleady in the story line. The only thing is, if they were to do maskless and helmetless warriors, they'd need to map an actual face to the characters that can have their gender changed to fit the characters. Different variants of these pieces of gear could be different face styles, scars, or even face paint for some factions.
It might just be me, and I'm kind of hoping its not, but I really do wish there was a little more customization in the game and having sets with different customizable assets such as what I listed would be pretty awesome!
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