Delete Mail Gear

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For real. At this point, it’s taking up too much art time to supply armor for only 2 classes, and compared to the other 3 armor types, the mail sets never look good. There’s a few that are okay, but they are rare. It feels like mail sets are usually an afterthought from the art department, probably due to only being used by two classes.

As for existing mail armor, don’t touch it. Hunter and Shaman can still wear and mog mail, but new mail armor will not be created in the future. (This is just so heirlooms, twink sets, and current sets don’t become unusable.)

This is a bit of a stretch, but as for the armor types they should be? In order to make the armor sets a 4 x 4 x 4 combo, move shaman into plate. (They use mail reinforced by the earth, so it fits.) And as for hunters? They move down to cloth. (They gain a passive to grant them more armor to fix the survivability issue that would arise). Just add agility to both of the armor types.

You might say “But cloth doesn’t fit hunter”, but… it kinda does.

Rexxar, arguably the most famous hunter, is very clearly in cloth armora apart from his shoulders, which arguably could still be cloth with how WoW’s designs are.

There’s also some lore figures with mixed classes like Tyrande, who wear obvious cloth.

Not only would it fit, it would mean the art team could be more creative with cloth gear. Instead of robes and soft armor, they can make the armor sometimes look like something you’d wear in a battle.

Now, if you’re planning to add tinker, for instance, then make one of them cloth and one of them leather, which would put us at 4/5/4 once Tinker is released. Or if you’re planning on Necromancer, then give hunters leather and shaman plate. That’d give us 4/5/4.

The entire point of this is mail armor is outdated, and art team resources are being wasted having to make sets for only 2 classes. It’s not the same as making a glaive for demon hunters, as a glaive is quick, a set takes a while.

Plus, one could argue that mail armor is really just a lesser plate armor, so hunters and shaman could both arguably wear plate just fine. That would result in a 3/4/5 situation, so unless the next class is cloth, I don’t think that’d be the best.

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lol, so now there is no master loot, hunters want to be leather

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So… you didn’t even read the post, I see.

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you don’t even read your post if last thread is any indication.

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Just move hunters to leather. It makes total sense that they’d make armor from the animals they hunt

Honestly mail makes no sense on either class. Both would be much more likely to wear leather since they both tend to live off the land and have close ties with nature

Mail armor really only fits warriors or other plate classes… But since they wear plate, mail should just be deleted. It’s really has no strong reason to exist

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Would be cool if they loosened transmog restrictions a little bit, like

Plate classes can mog plate/mail

Mail classes can mog mail/leather

Leather & Cloth classes can mog Leather/Cloth

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Four armour types always seemed a bit odd, guess it’s a relic of D&D.

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why is 4 odd? I see no reason to change things, I am pretty sure this would not have been suggested AT all when master loot was here because hunters benefitted so much with master loot.

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A lot of mail gear has the appearance of Leather… why go down 2 tiers of armor all the way to cloth?

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No electrum for monetary exhanges.

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-Drop Holy Paladin to int mail
-Delete druids because no one likes them

Balance. Now chadrogues, chadmonks and chaddemhunters can share leather and mail has another spec tied to it. Also, we get rid of Druids, which is a healthy positive for this game.

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I say, give us another Mail class.

Dragonsworn would be quite suitable, donning dragonscale.

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There have been discussions about the place of mail in WOW, especially after the addition of the extra leather wearing classes. Usually there were regarding why there were now so many classes vying for leather drops but also some about the lack of mail.

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Getting the nostalgia vibes here when int plat was as rare as hen’s teeth.

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:c

On topic, I don’t think we need to remove armor types. The higher armor values is technically supposed to be a balancing aspect of the two mail classes. I suppose in theory you could solve that with a passive ability but at this point four armor types are too ingrained into the game to bother removing.

I think instead Blizzard should be more liberal with the appearances available for each armor type. For instance, Fury Warriors have somewhat limited options if they want to go for a wild berserker look. Outside of heritage armors, Mages have limited options if they want more of a battle mage appearance a la WC3 spell breakers. I think every armor type needs to offer a wider range of appearances for players who want a wider range of styles. That includes more leather-looking appearances for mail. Despite elven archers being an iconic character archetype in the franchise since WC2 it’s remarkably difficult to find too many ways to emulate that style.

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This guy is on to something.

While we’re at it, can hunters get some decent looking ranged weapons? There’s maybe 3 bows and 2 guns in the entire game that are worth mogging. Even the new Nightborne-themed weapons conveniently skipped over bows in lieu of a WoD pvp bow recolor.

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Delete mail gear?! But then I would be naked!

…oh Maizou, you saucy vixen :wink:

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I’d like to see more bows come with quivers since as far as I know, Thas’Dorah is the only option.

I’ve seen some people suggest adding quivers in the back slot but I like the quiver-over-cloak look. If they were to add in “accessories” that we could just wear overtop our equipment that would suit me too.

Though honestly I’d like to see cloaks get more… cloak-y. Right now they all just look like blankets or towels extending from our necks. I want to see cloaks that can go over our shoulders or clasp in the front. Or even some with hoods and some depth to them.

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Oh, I get it!

Good thinking, Maizou.

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