Will gear be reflected at all, on your avatar? I.E. If I find a really neat looking helm or weapon, will it display visually? If not, please accept my humble suggestion that it become so. Neat looking game either way, brings me back to the SNES days. I'll definitely consider purchasing this closer to release.
Armor will not reflect in game appearance, But there is some color customization when creating a character. I hope I answered your question.
Yah, it is just one of those things that would take A LOT of development time to do, that we would rather spend elsewhere in the game. We made sure we had a bunch of skins to pick between, along with color customization per class.