Never has there been an issue more important than this!

One of the coolest features in this game is how your armor degrades as it takes damage—it adds an additional layer of immersion and makes each of the outfits more dynamic in appearance.

Unfortunately, there's a severe lack of consistency among outfits in this game, especially across different classes.

One of the biggest culprits is the Dark Knight. I recently picked her up and was deeply disappointed with what I saw.

Featured is the Dark Knight's Karlstein outfit set. Both are at 0 durability.

To the left is an old picture of the outfit I found online. To the right is a screenshot I took a couple of days ago.

As you can see, the armor on the left showcases proper degradation that is on par with a majority of the other female Karlstein outfits. The armor on the right only has a dirty texture applied to it. Since the older picture does have proper degradation, that means it has since been removed from the game. It makes me wonder if this is more of a bug than an oversight.

Unfortunately, most of her costumes and armor sets suffer the same fate as the right picture. For example, here's a comparison between Dark Knight and Ranger's Canape outfits, both at 0 durability:

Nova suffers from similar issues, as I'm sure many other classes do. I feel like this is an issue no one is talking about, and if no one talks about it, it will never be fixed.

I reached out to PA support about this issue, and they basically just told me to make a post about it. So here I am!

I can understand this being a problem if a class was just released, but if you're going to claim a character is done, make sure its aesthetics are at least on par with the other classes. I believe degradation is a big part of the appeal regarding various outfits and armors in-game, and players shouldn't have to have a lesser experience just because of the class they chose to play (at least in the immersion/aesthetics department).

All I'm asking for is consistency, and I hope there are enough players who feel the same way so that this will be fixed.

Any thoughts?