Polished Tin Mail Shirt  

 

For anyone who can get into the factory to do this, this item is pure junk. Factory access requires killing the dragon in PoI who is tougher than fighting dragons and wurms in Halls of Testing. So anyone who can get to the factory likely has Halls of Testing or better level gear.

Verant has neglected chain classes for 4 years. Rangers and rogues especially have been overlooked time and time again for major slot items like breastplates, legs, and arms while plate gear rains down in every expansion.

These toys from PoP do nothing to fix the fundamental problem of someone playing a chain class up for the first time. These items are twink gear for an alt of a plate class.

Verant has such seriously bad itemization issues that you can make a good guess at the size, structure, and composition of the live team and where their personal preferences are. If you want to see more proof of this, look at the stats and effects on plate hybrids versus warriors and clerics in PoP.

This item is only of use to an alt ranger, alt rogue, or alt monk whose main can make the cash or loot the item himself.

They have started making chain class only and leather class only armor. There are some tunics that only Monks Druids and Beastlords can wera. As a pladin, I didn't gripe when I saw these, because before now, plate classes could wear most leather and chain armor. Plate classes also had a section of the armor market all to themselves. Now all armor types do.