Mail armor is horrible looking. I have pages of the stuff and cannot seem to make a decent transmog with the junk. If they made decent chest pieces for the female body (like the Revendreth gowns ( minus the skirt) they would be awesome . Otherwise let Hunters be able to wear Leather. It is not like we are standing on some wall protecting the town. Most of us are out in the wilderness looking all stuffy …
Hush up and go be undead or something~
O really you think so …hmmmmm~
But why? Does it bother you?
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I like theirs better than yours… hmmmmmm-
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In the end it is all a matter of preference …
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I do. And that is literally all that matters. Presumably, you also think yours looks good. I wouldn’t be caught dead in it on any character, but to each their own. I wouldn’t message you to tell you it’s ugly. The only reason I even responded to your insult here is to point out that we all like what we like and you don’t have the right to decide for others what is or isn’t appealing.
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While ultimately, I would prefer to get rid of transmog restrictions. A lot of mail armor is just… not appealing to me at all except a small handful of class sets. So my hunter and shaman never get to look as good. I think mail as an item class should be removed and merged with leather.
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Insult where are you coming from- that mail armor looks lame and you know it~I don’t have much on there is NO comparison…
I mean, it’s pretty good for stopping sharp objects (slashing and bashing damage), why do you think certain cultures use hide shields and hardened leather armor? Harden the stuff into stiff plates and you’ve basically got ceramic durability material. Neither mail nor leather take well to direct stabs from thin sharp objects, mail has holes and leather doesn’t take forceful puncture wounds well.
Factor in some of the hides on some of WoW’s mystical beasts skinned and made into armor and you’ve basically got high grade armor.
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I miss when the most famous of shaman used to wear plate 
My armor looks lame? The only problem with my armor is that it looks like plate. But it’s beautiful to me and I went out of my way to get it because I like is. With thousands of transmogs and many completed sets, I can wear whatever I want. I choose this.
Yours? Sweetheart, you look like someone threw you into a Goodwill bin and you had to fight for your life to get out of it. You are absolutely correct that there is NO comparison.
Please don’t misrepresent my position… I 100% disagree with removing mail. My post was more to point out to YOU, that mail armor in WoW is designed fairly realistically, in terms of ratio of chain mail to other armor types. It still very much is “mail” armor… in terms of protection and durability, the mixed composition of leather/cloth and metal chains/plates is stronger. It is rightfully NOT categorized as leather. To be perfectly blunt, the labeling of “cloth, leather, mail, plate” is a holdover from the past. None of the armor categories adhere strictly to those types in composition. They do however adhere to a defensive level in their design and composition.
In WoW:
Cloth armors are very lightly armore, if armored at all, most cloth sets are essentially unarmored.
Leather armors are just lightweight armor. Some are padded cloth armor, some actually leather, others are made of wood… there are even a few light chainmail and light plate armors under leather.
Mail armors are the moderately armored sets. Almost all of them have moderate to heavy amounts of metal, and most have cloth or leather comprising the main exterior body of the armor.
Plate armor is the heavy armor category. Like mail, they almost always have heavy amounts of metal. However, a few plate sets lack any metal at all.
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So, just out of curiosity, what do you think would be the best way to fix the armor classifications?
Rename Plate to Heavy, Mail to Medium, Leather to Light, and keep Cloth as Cloth… Cloth is the only category that currently tends to adhere to its “material” classification… the rest adhere to a categorical classification…
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Wow, it’s really nice looking!
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Hell yeah, give shaman plate.
Oh boy I’d poin’t you towards Vanilla and TBC Holy paladins who could find themselves using all 4 armor types.
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The other irony, is that when tested for how much damage they can take, layered linen gambeson armor took more damage to tear than the treated leather.
WoW’s armor system just needs a good rehaul.
Resistances as a stat back but extended to all damage types per armor respectively would be a good way to do this.
some armor takes less bleeding/slashing damage, some takes more or less crushing damage, less or more nature damage, etc, etc.
Yeah my shaman had full mooncloth. Those were the days.
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