Something about looks... and armor!

[FlyingSquirrel]

Jonoth, let's also remember that that is X-men and this is WoW.

[Sourpuddle]

I honestly have a hard time seeing -why- a mage is restricted from running around in full plate. From a realistic lore standpoint.

Don't wear that out, you're not doing a good job with your analysis. For one, Mages wouldn't have the training to wear plate armour. For two, this is not your modern day armour set, so many those balances and comforts that were implimented into yours are gone. Why wouldn't a Mage just get plate mail training? Well, I'll tell you why, because a Mage, unless a Battle-Mage, wouldn't waste his time out of the blue to learn how to maintain and work a set of plate armour. That's like, in real life terms, being a computer science engineer and then all of a sudden learning how to be a cardovascular surgeon (a heart surgeon, yo!). It's just not something that a Mage would do, and what Mages would just never do. Why waste time learning how to wield a two handed axe when you could learn how to throw a pyroblast? Why waist time learning plate armour, in which the training is rigorous especially (ESPECIALLY) for a Mages physical status, when in reality he could just learn molten shield or something more effective for a Mage? You need to take in the fact that your character probably spent half his whole life studying to be a Mage, and unless the other half was spent on strength related exercise (and not sleep), then I don't think he'd appreciate wearing 40 extra pounds all the time, wherever he goes. I don't know about you, but that seems like a major drag to someone who doesn't even need it. But yo, THIS is a realistic and lore viewpoint based on the World of Warcraft, as that is what we should be focusing on. Thanks ya'll!

[TwilightDisciple]

I guess if we want to be realistic, no one should be wearing thorium because it is radioactive and can possibly catch on fire on contact with air IRL, no matter how cute the Enchanted Thorium Breastplate is on females. ^^ But, I digress!

The arguments of the case for and against that spawned from this thread are... interesting. What would the argument for non-class characters be? You know, someone who makes a human farmer and rolls a warrior just so they can wield a pitchfork* or wear a low-end plate item that doesn't look like plate for their "I'm Going To Town" outfit?

*I'm aware there are pitchforks on CotH with no weapon proficiency. This is just a general question.

[Kage]

I do recall something about a battle mage above, someone care to enlighten me on this? Oh and the whole point of this thread, from what I read at the beginning anyway, was to see if a mage could wear a leather armor, lets say for pants, just for that, so they have an outfit for RP.

[Kage]

Well here's something on war mages at least.

"Warmages are arcane spellcasters who accompany soldiers into the heart of battle. The generations of warfare on Azeroth have given warmages time to hone useful spells into simple and secret rituals, called "battlemagics", which are passed from warmage to another. Warmages are proficient with all simple melee and ranged weapons, and light armor. They can wield a sword in one hand, and a staff in the other. Armor of any type interferes with the warmage's arcane gestures, which can cause his spells to fail (if those spells have somatic components). As warmages accompany warriors into battle, they become better at defending themselves than other wizards. They develop greater martial skill in the crucible of battle.[1] Warmages are similar to battle mages" http://www.wowpedia.org/Warmage

So on this basis, they could wear leather, maybe chain mail, armor. There was also another post on battle mages, and how they were similar to these.

[Aphetoros]

I care not for wearing plate. I care not for wearing mail. But I don't see the dealio with leather.

[Kage]

Well based on the info that I found, if you were to be a war or battle mage, you could. Although they don't explain about the armor for battle mages, from the pictures I saw, it seemed to be plate.

[FlyingSquirrel]

Okay, people.

People have tried this before? Guess what the answer was.

It was a no, it is a no, and it probably will be a no for a long, long time, so please just stop bringing it up as it will change nothing. If you want to wear plate, then roll Warrior. If you want to fling fireballs, roll Mage. As the saying goes, You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

[Kage]

Oh I'm not trying to get a yes, just simply putting out facts.

[muhaha8]

Okay, people.

People have tried this before? Guess what the answer was.

It was a no, it is a no, and it probably will be a no for a long, long time, so please just stop bringing it up as it will change nothing.

... Thank you Danalthar.

One can only hope these requests will -stop happening- now.

[Kage]

Okay, people.

People have tried this before? Guess what the answer was.

It was a no, it is a no, and it probably will be a no for a long, long time, so please just stop bringing it up as it will change nothing.

... Thank you Danalthar.

One can only hope these requests will -stop happening- now.

Sadly, I doubt this, so long as new people keep coming here, this question, along with others, will be brought up again and again.

[Jurkey]

I don't think that they should edit armor profencies, just make a couple of breastplate items clothes.
Like 5 breastplates which are originally mail/plate, gets recreated as custom item with the cloth armor profency.
ICly they would still be plate, and you would have to act like that. But a rogue for example COULD wear a breastplate, in case he gets in an open fight - like a bandit.

[GeneralDefyre]

Just a quick thought... Can't you just make a warrior for the mail/plate proficiency,(along with cloth and leather of course), and when righting the profile just ask a GM to reset your spellbook to that of a mages? If not then I understand, but I just thought this would be a good idea for some unique RP.

[Kage]

I applaud your idea, but I doubt that will actually happen, it would have the same problems OOC that this whole changing the armor does.

[muhaha8]

Just a quick thought... Can't you just make a warrior for the mail/plate proficiency,(along with cloth and leather of course), and when righting the profile just ask a GM to reset your spellbook to that of a mages? If not then I understand, but I just thought this would be a good idea for some unique RP.

Ideas like that usually don't fly. Think about the GMs. That puts a lot of stress on them to remove each individual warrior spell and add each mage spell. And besides, all these armor proficiency ideas fail. I don't know why people keep asking the same thing in a different way. In short: IF IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, why should it, -ever-? Not like it -hasn't- been asked before.