[DEV] Grammar error

[Alhanelem]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spat_%28disambiguation%29

It covers the ankles and below, basically. So it's footwear really. They were/are mostly worn over boots. Regardless though, they should probably only associate one obscure noun with one equipment slot.

By the way, what the heck are Consciales supposed to be?

In the game, the spats are really just the lower part of the armor you wear. Many armors in the game can encompass more than one actual real life piece of armor, due to the limited number of gear slots in the game. Pauldrons for instance are usually included with body armor but are not mentioned in the item's name.

Take the summoner's spats for example-
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...rthor/hmph.jpg
The "spats" are really just the blue part covering the lower leg and top of the foot, and not the pants that they are being worn over.

But for the most part I think SE is just taking creative license with terms not familliar to the average person. However, they may not realize that it's actually spreading misinformation. But they may just be picking words for things that are "close" to other things to allow more variety in item names.