Mezzmyrelda@Unrest wrote:Well, if you feel like everyone looks alike now, wait until everyone on your server is running around in plate. 
On a more serious note I doubt armorers would ever sell another piece of chain again, except for appearance slots. The scouts would wear plate MC/Treasured and upgrade to class appropriate legendary/fabled once they can get it I'd imagine.
It would be terribly confusing for new players when they inevitably pop onto the forums with their first post of "what type of armor should my [insert class here] wear?" They'd get absolutely slammed with a flood of varying suggestions on the merits of all 4 armor types and their various stats rather than debating between 2 or 3 suits of stats.
Furies could grab a set of SK stat plate and absolutely blast through mobs. I'd imagine a warlock would take the SK set for a whirl, too. Or at least the old Fury Leather set with INT.
On the up side, the first plate brawler out the gate might have a blast showing what an awesome MT a brawler can be with a full suit of plate to soak up the hits he doesn't dodge.
Personally I'd rather see fluff only stuff added for those who want to RP an unorthodox look and have the existing armor itemization improved where needed. Of course, I still don't understand the logic of a martial artist (brawler) wearing leather. /shrug I won't bregrudge them the mit, though.
I don't think *everyone* would run around in plate. Plate doesn't = the best look in the game any more so than Cloth does and even though every single person can wear cloth, you don't see everyone doing it. People would buy what they want to look like...I dunno if crafted chain armor is so poor that scouts would all use crafted plate instead of quested chain. As long as it was only treasured/crafted, no class would be able to use another class' set gear anyway, so a warlock wouldn't get much out of wearing plate. I definitely see brawlers/healers/scouts getting better with plate to a point....but they'd be sacrificing class-specific stats (i'd have to look, but I bet the fabled brawler gear is still better mit-wise than crafted plate or very similar).