BRING BACK CAPES (mantles)!

[mbncd]

I am beginning to understand why they removed it...
Maybe for database reasons, but also because it kinda feels wrong to have the following exchange:
"Our tank didn't even have the tank bra and panties!"
"I finally got the uberthong!"

Yeah having statted underwear...not one of the game's better ideas.

Actually they never ended up bringing in end game underwear, just level 1 and (if I recall correctly) level 21 pieces. They also weren't class specific, only race+gender specific, and I think the only stats they had were defence and magic defence. They could be HQ'ed but that was the only stat variation and it was just more of the same. Many of the low level hempen items we have now are actually the old underwear in new slots.

[NozomiKei]

And have female gamers beat the dead horse about female characters tanking in underwear again? Hell no.

As long as they let guys wear the same thing I'm all for it! Also, Odin wears a mighty fine cape.

[mbncd]

I've always loved capes :3 I don't even care if they look like cardboard but gimme, gimme, gimme~

[Colorful]

I can picture all the Miqo'te/Aura tails clipping out of the cape, no thanks.

I feel like if they were to add capes, armour would be designed with them in mind so if you were to hide them they'd look incomplete so to speak.

[kyuven]

I can picture all the Miqo'te/Aura tails clipping out of the cape, no thanks.

This is pretty much the whole reason, combined with how complex everything else is.

[Galliano]

Capes like this would be pretty awesome.

[SylbharF]

I don't think I want any capes anytime soon.
The last time I wear a capes in NWO, the capes physic strangle me to death.

[Zumi]

FFXI had them but it was non visible.

[Kelg]

Ps3 limitations.

[Fleur]

No capes! D: I play(ed) SWTOR and they just love sticking capes (and other useless ugly bits, but I digress) on perfectly good armor and ruining it. The capes clip horribly with mounts and a lot of weapons and hair and, well, pretty much everything, plus the physics tend to be kind of funky. Not to mention that capes, unless done very tastefully, tend to make the wearer look like a super hero wannabe.

Cloaks, though, I think would be kind of neat. Still, any flowy long thing tacked on back with that much clipping potential I wouldn't want to see unless it was a hide-able back slot item.

Just my 2 gil.