I just realized something

[Raicolette-moon-guard (Raicolette)]

No, you still can. If someone enables the hide their profile on the forums, it makes it a inconvenience to look at their armory; however, I also hear it’s a bug but I don’t believe it.

@Raicolette-moon-guard

As for OP, there’s a option you can enable in your settings that hides your profile, post history, and makes it a little bit of a hurdle to get to someone’s armory, though not entirely.

Here’s my thread on showing how to do so, in case you’re curious: You can hide your profile and presence

If you hover your mouse over someone’s name, you can still see what realm they are from. So, if you go to your armory and type in their realm name and character name in the URL, you’ll still access their armory.