I really don't get it why out of sudden armors are race restriced. In DA:O every race could use every armor and everyone was happy...
I don't mind this because armor in DAO looked like they were made for humans first and then scaled down for dwarves. It didn't look right, especially with the oversized shoulder pads. The exceptions were the dwarven armor that came out of Orzammar, particularly the Legion of the Dead. I had mixed feelings about seeing humans run around in them, like the armor somehow magically got bigger. Legion of the Dead is a very specific group of dwarves and I definitely appreciate that their armor is race-gated now. If a human player wants to pretend they're a badass in black armor, they're free to re-roll into the master race.
I need to find the qunari only armor. I found an elf-only, and the Legion of the Dead armor is dwarf only. So somewhere out there will be a qunari-only. I'm really enjoying my qunari's play-through more than I thought. At first it was just to try out the "new" playable race, but I stayed up the whole night playing with him. And I haven't done that for a while.
Check out the second post in this thread:
http://forum.bioware...e-only-armours/Edit: Oh, forgot to include screenshot of my character riding the dwarven mount. I am so tickled with the amount of dwarven stuff that has made it into the game. I am just floored, I really am.