In terms of defense vs. mobility, what does Mail offer that leather or plate dont?
If you’re talking about in game there’s absolutely none
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The ability to be sent via the postal service.
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Trash transmog options.
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In-game there isn’t really any. The unique trait of mail armour is that you have the ugliest transmogs. You get no advantages.
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Shaman’s actually have some good looking armor sets…now hunter that’s a different story
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Simple it gets your letters from point A to point B.
Bad joke aside Mail armor, in fiction and real life is supposed to be a lighter alternative to plate. A bit lighter on the defense, but it offered more mobility. In actual history Mail was usually paired with pieces of plate to form the more common versions of armor that soldiers wore.
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??? It’s more armor value than cloth and leather and less value than plate? What do you not understand about this?
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Blizzard told me to ignore all Shaman posts.
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Why do shaman even wear mail? They’re not medieval footsoldiers or something. They’re like tribal bog-people. Should leather.
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Mobs see how ugly it is and get a debuff
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To show hunters what is possible in armor design while we keep getting garbage.
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Funny seeing a post like this in a high fantasy game where female characters wear some skimpy armor and actually even male toons.
Like we want to have a remotely deep discussion about armor when there’s chest pieces that the entire stomach is exposed?
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Is that an issue when everyone has rock-hard abs?
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Best I have found is mix-n-match pieces from different sets and hope for the best.
Light weight and still helps protect against stab attacks and blunt attacks. That’s the realistic reason.
In game? No idea.
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Took the words right out of my mouth.
Or fingers, I guess.
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The middle ground between both?
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Same but I just want to be excited about a mail tier set lol oh well I guess maybe s2 of TWW could be our time to shine?! 
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The only thing mail offers is some protection in the gaps that plate wouldn’t be used to cover for the sake of mobility.
Because plate armor is actually made with mobility in mind it restricts you very little if at all beyond having to carry around the added weight.
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