So you’re saying it’s a katana still? I’m confused. Katanas are relatively small and thin.
I’m saying the artstyle has been highly stylized and samurai was the aesthetic intended for blademasters
So you responded to for me no reason, gotcha.
Monks…clearly…
Warrior. Samurai are heavy plate wearing warriors and yes I know anime has most kids thinking they also had some spiritual aspect to them but they are nothing more than Knights in Japan using actually mostly archery but thanks to anime people think its all about the katana.
Still 2h sword and heavy plate = warrior
You’d be wrong they used a cheap iron called Pig Iron and all their armour was plate.
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Or just go to a museum and literally look at all the iron armour plates over it. It’s not a hidden secret. You can actually go see ancient samurai armour today and it’s metal.
Blademasters didn’t use storm, earth and fire. They used mirrior images. It was even called Mirror Images.
Chen the monk in wc3 used storm earth and fire.
Everything about Blademaster is found in arms warrior with a slayer build they just need the mirrior images now.
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You could make an easier case for japanese lamellar as a kind of mail - especially since mail armor is mostly a grab bag of scale, light quasi-plate and basically boiled leather - which actually makes Hunter the best class as it masters the bow, the spear, and the sword!
Which has been my opinion since Legion.
A proper daikyu model would be nice.
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I would think Warriors culturally speaking, since Samurai are trained troops, fighters by definition. A shinobi or Ninja would be Rogues since they’re spies typically, and Monks are something entirely different.
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Lamellar is an early for of Plate not linked mail. So I still say its true to plate. Solid plates overlapping held together with silk if you could afford it or horse hair if you couldn’t.
That doesn’t matter, there’s only one actual mail set in the entirety of the game’s mail and it’s one of the hunter tier sets from this expansion. Mail in the game is just a random grab bag for everything from “medium armor” in spirit all the way down to sets that are essentially ranger cloth.
QED Hunter is a better Samurai (as a versatile combatant whose primary weapon is actually the bow)
I wouldn’t mind Blademaster being it’s own class.
That being said: it should have been a Hero Talent for Warrior. Slayer/Colossus sucks.
lmao.
Still not what they wore so it does matter.
Mail is linked chain or linked scales of metal or linked triangles of metal in chinesse style armour.
Plate is just that, large plates overlapping which is what warriors in wow wear and what samurai actually wore also.
Lamellar was definitely worn in Japan and is far more within the purview of in-game mail than plate.
Anyway it remains that you get more of a samurai from hunter even if you want to be a pedant about the armor.
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All things considered though, traditionally speaking, a Samurai class has merit, as they were trained in mounted horseman archery and melee combat, on foot archery and archery from a vantage, use of fire and artillery, wrestling and jujitsu, etc. We could very well get a class all its own with a mix of specs for mounted combat, aimed ammunition weapons, swords and melee weapons with limited influence form Monks for martial arts transitioning between the two.
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Look I would love a mounted archery thing but there is no way they’ll ever do this.
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It’s more lacquered leather, not as much metal as you would think. Yes some metal is in it, but there is a ton more leather and cordage
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It should be, we had them in TBC (?) and in WC3
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You can literally go see for yourself in any museum. Its 90lbs of plate armour and the mounted ones weighted up to 150lbs of metal plates.
Peasants called Bushimon wore leather. Not samurai. Thats like calling a peasant footman a knight in shining armour.
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It is metal plates.
This sounds like people trying to pretend there was ever a non-ceremonial use for meme nonsense like the Dendra panoply, common samurai armor is not even near your low end.
Sure the standard stuff is about twice as heavy as usable ancient armors but those usually lacked fittings for arms and legs to begin with.