Athaya

Will only comment on Heavy as i pretty much only played my warrior extensively through all campaigns. Other chars that i used to farm were just given max armor of whatever was cheap. Anways the ones i like:

Female Ancient Armor
Female Vabbian Armor
Female Elite Sunspear
Male Ancient
Male Elite Sunspear

Not sure why i like these, but out of all the available armors these were the ones i used most often.

I dont see much of a problem with ascended gear, and it was kind of needed. Exotics are just way too easy to get right now, after hitting 80 you can get full exotic armor for a couple gold. Weapons might take a little longer but seriously....most are only 1g or less. If you didnt make a few gold leveling to 80 the only thing you must have been doing was grinding mobs like the gold sellers. It was anets mistake making exotics so easy to get, and after getting them, doing the fun achievements, and some spvp, theres nothing left to do, unless you go for a legendary, which is just a grindfest which i see ascended gear being as well. And if the ring comparison is anything to go off of then stat increase is negligible. If your in exotics playing against a guy who just bought a char with full ascended, you should easily be able to kill him, and if you cant then you have other problems than gear.

One reason i can see is that many of your leggings, at least for females, are skirts or have some sort of long flowing look. This would lead to MAJOR clipping issues that i doubt ANET wants to deal with.

Easy fix......make it so stealthed/invisible foes cant contest points, like in spvp. Wait.....that makes too much sense.