Legendary Armor in Dauntless is Kinda Terrible 

He called Malk gloves good, now they gonna get rid of them

I recently was making a hammer build and I noticed all of these sometimes have good armor pieces, but most of it like you said is Aetherhunter and only Aetherhunter. At the end of the day I was able to find a combo without any Legendary armor and I'll use it because it's really good.

i disagree..ppl still use parasitic. speedrunners dont

well the game is kinda terrible

Honestly, the issue with legendary armor is there's no reason to pay the absurd material costs you can get from ONLY attacking one behemoth from the top of escalation ladder over and over ... just to get stats you could get elsewhere. In fact, with the two prismatics from getting a much more valuable legendary weapon, you never have to wear legendary armor at all. Now if legendary armor pieces had extras like the exotic armors, or set bonuses, or prismatic slots, or ANYTHING at all, then yeah, it might be worth it.

So basically just weapon unique effects but on armour sets ??

They need to utilize those escalation specific perks to specialize each armor. Imagine entering the umbral, become invulnerable and have increased crit damage and chance or you become a ether charged for 60 secs

this is why I still think we need some sort of passive for armor, the more pieces of an armor set you have the stronger that one passive becomes, right now armor is exclusively for cells and only weapons have unique effects, giving armor unique effects would allow late game armor to actually be special, obviously this would probably be a balancing nightmare but giving malkarion armor something like a discount thunder mantle amp passive would make sense considering the innate grace cell. Stuff like that

Idk, having set bonus unique to legendary would invalidate a lot of the other armor sets

My thoughts are that it's good to have the game like this,you have to go in depth with your build to make it good,instead of killing a legendary monster and take its armor just to have the strongest armor from there

The only thing good about the vast majority of the armor pieces is the way they look

I think the legendary equipment should either 1 enhance Omni cell uses or 2 give bonuses.

Like I said before, this game needs to let you actually advance by leveling and refining instead of just being stuck in a loop.

would be cool If each legendary armor had like some special ability that matches the behemoth. examples

I still think we need hunting horn equivalent in dauntless and people can make support builds

for thrax, after doing x crit, your next attack creat a corruption pool that deal dmg?

I was just thinking about this topic and then I saw your video and I agree with what you said.

I imagine for Trax it could be after a certain amount of critical hits you get the Umbral transformation like the Amp in scalations, except fixed to a certain dng% to balance.

As someone who just got back playing after a period of time away from the game (I stopped playing when the chronovore was new, just kinda lost steam) I don't know a lot about the new game. I think maybe an overhaul for the armor mechanic is needed, but an interesting idea might be to be able to choose the in-built cell? Maybe talking to the middleman after finishing a unique quest will allow for you to choose a piece of armor and a cell you own to be infused together. Make it a once a week thing that refreshes, and make it a stupid amount of aetherdust to actually do it, so that people who really like the armor can grind and get the armor piece they want. So like I can trade off aetherhunter for knockout king if I'm willing to not use that cell anymore (completely gone and id have to get a new +3) and I have to wait to use the armor. I feel like armor is the one thing the game is trying really hard to box us in on, and it doesn't make much sense.

We already have amps that would work well for set bonuses. Maybe if you have four parts of legendary armor it would open up a slot for you to bond one of the previously existing amps based on the which escalation it's from.