Demon Hunters should wear mail, because they are frontline fighters that typically fight enemies larger than they are.
“bUt ThEn ThEy CoUlD’nT uSe ThIeR WiNgS tO fLy”
They don’t fly, actually. A heavier armor class would actually help to explain why they have no flight capabilities.
Dracthyr should wear plate, like Deathwing…And every single other dragon we’ve EVER seen wearing armor. Like they are actually able to wear in dragon form with the customization options. Maybe then they would be tougher than used napkins.
I’ll never understand why blizz decided to do things this way.
Chromie wears cloth.
Pretty much every other female dragon wears virtually nothing, which is common among leather and Mail tmogs.
Nozdurmo could easily be in Mail. Definitely not plate. It’s more on the robe - cloth side.
Wrathion is at most in leather.
Malygos wore cloth.
Kalecgos wears leather.
Even historically, frontline fighters have sometimes opted to use leather.
Regarding Demon Hunters though, they are specifically trained to hunt down and eliminate demons.
A quick and deadly strike, they aren’t for waging large scale wars with thousands of warriors, so they don’t need chainmail, leather is fine.
Even in the novel following Illidan’s creation of the Illidari and his rule of Outland, he did not use the Demon Hunters for such battles. He kept the Fel Orcs around as his bulwark of his forces, or the Naga. The Demon Hunters were the original “elite squad” before Blizzard decided to make up Void Elves, and they just had to get into a unsuspecting Legion World, hit their target, and get out.
Not to mention, Demons aren’t normally armored except for a few and they don’t even normally have armor protecting their chest, just head and arms/legs. So you just wearing leather armor are already at a major advantage.
As for monks, “because they’re monks” isn’t really an argument? It only makes clear you have a particular image of monks in your mind and thus believe that the in game monks should follow it.
And for Dracthyr, many dragons don’t wear plate, the iconic example as Galedron stated could be Chromie, Malygos, Wrathion, Kalecgos etc. Not to mention they are casters/fire breathers, so mid range to backline fighters, and thus don’t need plate.
Like, every other game I’ve played that had monks (D&D, forgotten realms, etc…) uses cloth armor for their monk class. And I mean, even historically monks wore cloth habits. Tibetan monks-which they are pretty clearly based on- wear cloth.
I’d totally be on board for that. The only issue, is that the Dracthyr already have the highest level of customization in the game. So I would feel a bit slighted playing anything else with less normal customization and then on top of that they get more armor customization. Blizzard would be too obvious when playing favorites then.
It would make more sense to let us mog anything. The way armor-as-wearable is distributed is mostly due to stat allocations (though that is way less of a thing these days where only weapons have one main stat).
In the real world people mixed “armor classes” quite a lot. The iconic full suit of plate was more of a status symbol than a regular thing.
Here’s an idea, dude: make your own game and you can make your characters wear whatever you want them to wear. Also, you might want to look up the definition of logical cause “what I think” isn’t what it means.
Because when I think of a highly-trained demon hunter that uses agility and speed as their main focus as a frontline fighter, I think loud, clunky, and heavy chainmail!
Hey it’s almost like visual depictions of npcs has absolutely no bearing on what armor type a class wears. Because armor type is a gameplay mechanic. It’s not necessarily a literal description of what a character wears. Look at all the chunks of metal on a lot of the “cloth” armor.
Logic is kinda all over the place. First you claim monks should wear cloth but then you claim Demon Hunters should wear mail because they’re front line fighters but monks are also front line fighters so shouldn’t they also wear mail?
Obviously we need to go in the direction they took body types. To avoid stereotyping instead of Cloth, Leather, Mail and Plate, they should change it to Armor Type 1, Armor Type 2, Armor Type 3 and Armor Type 4. Is there no problem that can’t be solved by bland genericizing?
It’s all about the logic of it. For demon hunters that fight like beasts, using raw power to overwhelm their equally bestial opponents that they have derived their power from, it makes sense that they would want heavier armor to resist claws and weapons.
As for monks, not only do they wear cloth in traditional reality, but monks in most lore rely on spiritual fortification so that physical fortification is not as necessary.
And as for evoker, would something that has scales need anything less that plate armor to further defend themselves? If they are wearing anything less, than it’s not for practicality but for decoration only.
And yes, deathwing wore armor from necessity, but he also embraced it as his new identity, so it worked for him AND made him stronger than any other individual dragon. Of course he wore plate.
You’re right that most dragons wear nothing, or if they do it’s mostly bling, but there are notable exceptions. Basically if a dragon is wearing armor, it’s plate. Archimedes, Deathwing (of course) basically all of the demi dragons we’ve seen, to name a few.
It would make more sense to let us mog anything. The way armor-as-wearable is distributed is mostly due to stat allocations (though that is way less of a thing these days where only weapons have one main stat).