The only point of contention I have with “renaming” it to leather is that at some point developers will just start developing the armor to look like just leather sets.
There are so really cool chain mail mogs. Take mine for example, the one I’m wearing now. They won’t continue making cool looking “mail” sets if they push everything into a leather category.
If anything your argument makes me want to suggest putting chain mail crafting into its very own profession and take it away from leatherworking. You’ve made a great argument for the fact that LW has an unfair advantage making armor for two entire sets of armor class types where everyone else only has one type (cloth, plate)
See, the thing is, I think hunters and druids could wear similar armors and it wouldn’t be a problem. Both classes lean towards a theme of nature and the wilds, so the clear bias against hunters in particular leave me scratching my head.
I’ll allow that personal taste shouldn’t be a basis for a collective niche to be screwed. In fact, the popular phrase “the customer is always right…” actually has a critical part of its meaning missing: “…in matters of taste.” I’ll adjust my argument, then. Mail shouldn’t be thrown into the bin just because someone has a taste in what is already offered. But I don’t think the current status quo in regards to mail armor is a good attitude to have, either.
Unfortunately, the sad case is this: Nothing’s going to be done about it aside from people sniping one another over the topic in the forums.
How about just NO… LOL
If anything they need to do more with armor then just adding more armor to it and calling it a type. Would like to see mail get broke down into chain mail and ring mail. With heavier armor type like plate lending towards more armor and geared for defence, then with chain and ring mail being more for mele dps classes and lighter the armor the more agile the gear with leather lending to more int and cloth being more caster focused. You know, like any other DnD styled RPG games.
No… it’s not… but you seem to have missed the point of Rollo’s posts… “It looks bad” is not a good reason to remove mail armor from the game… “It looks bad” is however a good reason for them to change how they design mail armor. Cancel culture is bad. You see something you don’t like, you should look for solutions to FIX it, not jump immediately to “remove it”. Valid opinions can be bad reasoning, just because someone tells you your reason is bad doesn’t mean your opinion is invalid.
I vote we just use whatever, not like there’s much reason to really use anything in particular outside of stats. And even the stats have gotten flatter.
I mean it’s a fantasy world where Druids/Warlocks can do this to somebody just casually:
I always found it silly they didn’t just remove mail a long time ago, and kept this pointless concept. At this point, it would probrobly be more work then they’re willing to spend to change it.
Following this logic, armour types themselves should not exist. Armour hardly matters as a stat anymore and loot drops specific to individual characters, so why make the distinction at all?
What logic? That mail is really just leather armor? I suppose that’s why leather workers make it.
Or the logic of an extra armor that really isn’t needed. There’s not even a tanking mail class, and the only point when you would even remotely notice the difference in armor is tanking. Mail is leather with pieces of metal added… which is already a graphic for alot of the leather visuals anyways.
This makes as much logic as the removal of plate wearers wearing mail first and mail users wearing leather first… a concept that was killed off a loooong time ago.
It was. Along with weapon skills, language skills, and so on. And I believe the game is lesser for it. WoW would have been much stronger as an actual RPG if these elements were embraced rather than discarded.
Becoz the NPC wore leather and cloth, Hunters should do the same. Blizz should not bother with these trolling posts. If I want to make fun on these trolls, my answer would be:
Easy Fix: Have NPC wear Mail Armors. But I know it’s a waste of time of resources.
Yeah my hunter uses a gun. Not the most silent weapon. There’s nothing wrong with the concept of mail, they just need to make some that actually looks good or looks like y’know, mail.
