Spoilers.. There is some decent looking hunter armor that is coat free, also the qunari can wear the battlemaster / prowler / battlemage armor you get from the hissing wastes merchants.. end game versions of the scout / defender / enchanter gear
Cheers for confirmation. Is one of those armors you mentioned the one shown in the screenshot above your post, or plate-based for us Warrior Qunari players out there craving the heavy armor look? And do you have any screenshots of the armor your Qunari character managed to roll, and/or any Qunari-specific/unique armor (as in, only for Qunari) that you've found during your playthrough?
It sucks humans, elves and dwarves seem to get their own unique looks but nothing's been found for only the Qunari just yet.
So, basically I made my Qunari Female 2h warrior, and I'm somewhere 50h in to the game by these point, and I haven't had any racial bender bugs, and the equipment restrictions work fine, I can't use helmets can't use racial restricted gear and so on.
BUT everything I equip looks a slightly recolored variation of ONLY 2 armors, one ugly coat and one ugly scale armor both look more like light/medium armor. And I absolutely HATE those looks. But wen I try those same armors on my companions they tend to look pretty awesome(completely different).
And at first I thought that these is some kind of joke that Qunari can't use proper armor and that they only choose to render two variations for the whole game for a whole playable racial choice.
SO now your telling me these is a BUG or no!? Or is it intended that Qunari look like absolute crap the whole game, prancing around in what I see as beggars rags?
Side notes, ALL loot that dropped for me throughout the game was NEVER for my character, all that I have is gray gear and what I managed to buy of some T1 schematics and I'm lvl14. There are NO 2h sword dropping anywhere and no blue/purple armor that's not either race restricted or medium/light. ((still enough of a grey variation or armors that I can test the appearances on companions and see that its not all scales and raggedy trench coats.
People are basically confused and we're all trying to differentiate whether or not certain aspects are bugs or just that BioWare didn't give Qunari characters enough unique looks beyond the standard Scale/Leather look of the Defender Mail/Defender Coat sets, or the starting Mercenary Coat and DLC armor.
VilniusNastavnik just stated above that there are end-game armors that look different on Qunari and can be equipped, but we have no screenshots or further information if there is other armor sets that produce different looks for Qunari. VilniusNastavnik also confirmed unique standalone sets like the Warden, Templar and Orlesian armors are race-restricted and Qunari can't equip them.
What seems to be confirmed as a bug for Qunari is the starting Inquisitor armor sets which can be purchased at the camp in Haven at the beginning of the game. All three armor sets for the three classes don't render at all on the Qunari when equipped, and instead default them to their undergarments.
Others have reported future armors looking exactly the same as Defender Mail/Defender Coat's looks, or also (incorrectly) equip the Qunari's undergarments look.
A separate bug that users who roll a Qunari Mage also experience is the fact that they're sometimes considered Human Nobles as well, and thus can (incorrectly) equip non-Qunari armor sets, but can't equip Vitaar like they should.
My guess? It's a mixture of bugs (the Inquisitor armor sets not rendering properly) and BioWare laziness in not giving Qunari characters enough unique looks. However, what complicates things is the fact that in the screenshot posted a bit above this one, you can see Iron Bull in the background clearly wearing Plate Armor of some sort, and the Qunari Mage wearing a coat not seen in-game since the promo videos.