I have seen a grand total of zero people wearing them, but one person that was going for I think the 4*? I'm considering going for one of them. I mean I could pull it off if I really wanted to, but I could also take a fork and stick it in my eye if I really wanted to.

The real issue is that they're essientially just costume armors; even if they were whisker free, I wouldn't use them as more than costumes... like all defensive armors they MUST be heated as they are basically just black kat cowl, but with crummy offensive stats and slightly better (dread skelly levels) of defense... therefore in order to unlock their defensive prowess, they need heat and being crafted to 5* way way way more than the black kat setup.

I mean they're technically very powerful, as they offer reasonable class benefits with a larger amount of specialized defense and a single bar of ice resistance, making them superior to dread skelly, armor of the fallen and even snarbolax set... but it all comes down to whether you would rather have:

A) The greatest offensive stats of all time, along with the ability to dodge better and close in on enemies?

B) The greatest ability to handle one or two extra hits from an icy turret?

This isn't a hard decision, and should really be fixed.... if 15 black kats spawn in quick succession and each drop a book of dark rituals, I'll be sure to craft 'em all, but until then it isn't worth the effort when I can instead save up for the next big mixmaster/black kat raiment, so that I don't have to practice EXTREME MERCHANTING to acquire the newest kajigger.

I guess really I'd craft and use it just so that I could be the only knight on all of cradle using that armor set. But then I'm already the only knight on all of cradle using quite a few sets, should I choose to, so why..

@Poetry

Well yeah but if trends continue there will be something new next event for us to farm for, and we won't supposed to be able to get it all in one event either XD

Then there is the bit where they all cost the same as the black kat variant and are quite frankly just not worth it regardless of how many events you are made to fight through, as we've been discussing in length.

endgame content? you mean like... 5*?

as far as I know, armors are all equal to one another except for the fact that they specialize on different things, the only thing that changes between each armor is where the bonuses go to.

status resist and special damage protection= dragon scale set, divine set, radiant silvermail

normal damage protection and stun resistance = ancient plate and the plate lines

offensive bonus in trade for status weakness= chaos set, fencing jacket, Armor of the fallen, Kat armors in general.

standard armor with specialized class bonuses= wolver line, gunslinger line, demo line.

all of these armors in their respective 5* version are already endgame content, they have strengths and weaknesses that are generally the same and none should be considered superior to others, but then there is the fact that offensive bonuses severely outweigh damage protections and status resistances due to them not really affecting gameplay to a level that a player would consider them valuable over having ASI, CTR, or DMG increase, wich give great advantage to a knight in everything that the clockworks can throw at him.

so when people come up with this "endgame content that shouldn't be available to everyone" argument I just think that they're losing the original concept of the game as it was back then when chaos wasn't so OP and everyone just use wolver armors with DAs, at least there were no armors with exessive ammounts of dmg bonus and stuff and the unbalance wasn't as noticeable as it is now.

To further prove my point of all armors being equal to one another there's the fact that the game devs actually paired up black kat, claw, eye and hiss armors because they are supposed to be equal in terms of what they can offer to a knight (being that class specific kat armors have less status weaknesses)

to fix this they could add a new mechanic like idk... making it so that when you are wearing shadow protection, enemies that deal shadow damage cannot interrupt you so often, unlike how it currently works that you get interrupted by everything that touches you. or maybe having a chance of the armor completely absorbing the damage, and the chances increasing with the more you stack a particular defense. theres just alot of ways that they could go about it... but well, one can dream :,)

i used the word "should" for a reason, i know that there are armors that are better than others. but I blame that on poor design, not on an actually intended feature.

What i've been trying to say with that huge text wall up there is that the fact that this armor is better than the others is just a flaw of design and treating it as something that should be hard to obtain because it so happens to be powerful isn't a valid reason for it's rarity, given that if everything was balanced and damage resistance would actually be worth anything they would just be on par with everything else, so either the developers or the players have no real reason to treat it differently than other armors.

Unless that is what the devs actually intend to do with it. but i've given my reasons of why i think that they don't in my previous post.

*yeah i edit my posts way too much k? I know that*

I feel like I kind of.. derailed this thread a bit. Sorry about that. I mean I guess it isn't the worst thing, as long as people respond to the OP and the side discussion about SEGA's milking tactics, the horrid armor balance issues we face consistently, and the horrors of the RNG behind the black kat event.

Exactly none.

I wouldn't mind the BK sets being obtainable only with whiskers but I would like the others to be obtainable with kat tribe fetishes.

Aye, I can't really make sense of why the other, undeniably inferior armours require the hardest item to get in the event, and tbph, one of the hardest items to come across at all right now.
The armours are good and kinda quirky, but overall are just pretty garbage compared to how much money you'd need to sink into actually getting them. If you're going to be using 50k CE worth of items, time, heat and energy to craft it, it might as well be the BK set which is actually...well, ridiculously overpowered.
But there's no point spending all of that one...meh gear.
In the last event the hats got released and the BKC required a book, while the other ones just needed fetishes to make up for the fact that they were pretty crap. Seems fair.

Who decided that logic was too boring?!

I've seen nobody with those armors. This event is just designed badly and only armor that should need whiskers to craft is BKC armor, because those three armors are not worth the price.