Quote Originally Posted by Duuude007 View Post
While an interesting point, the militia gear was in 1.0 long before a recipe existed for it.

They probably kept the recipe simple enough to be easy to make for entry-level 50 content, and didn't think altering the texture was a priority.
I mean only to change from hippo leather to coeurl leather (both are leather for lv 50 and both use only 1 black alumen, but hippo leahter is used in everything and i have a stack of coeurl skin rotting in my retainer)