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I am not sure who would be responsible for the fix/changes, if its art or server side code that originally controlled this. But the souls robe looks like this:
Thank you in advanced to whoever tackles this.
I think original art is the monk robe.
This seems to be a very common topic among players. ~ M A G E ~ was lobbying Faldon congress to fix this too. They were very popular unique items, and now they look really bland. So.. I get that.
It's not the art itself, but a difference in how the new client draws. From what I understand- the old client used destination color matrix, and the new one only uses source. Basically that top layer piece of art can't affect the layer behind it to give the same translucent effect.
I don't know enough about the draw code to tell if this is a simple, or complicated thing to change. Then there is the question of priority versus fixing something else.
FWIW, this affects (or is it effects? 
) Nature Shield, Soul Blade, Aegis, maybe some others. Here is a side by side of how they used to look vs now:
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