Quote Originally Posted by Seinaru View Post
Since Plate Mail restricts head and feet equipment, Scale Mail can overpower Plate Mail considering it has better stats. For example, the first set of Plate Mail you get at around level 25 is better than Iron Scale. But it can be beaten by a full set of level 32 Steel Scale.
Understood, and I obviously take into account each set of armour when looking to upgrade.

What I'm not understanding is, for example, the discrepancies in-game. Eg. seeing a level 29 Marauder wearing iron scale (when the heavy iron, or company armour, is superior), or worse, a 37 Paladin still wearing level iron (not steel) scale....

Not being elitist or anything, but in my mind if my job is to take damage, one should try to obtain the best armour available for their level :/ In the same way that a dps character with a very outdated weapon is a poor dps. And maybe it's just my server, but I see a *ton* of tanks in scale. Hardly anyone uses the plate or "heavy" plate gear. Just seems odd and I was curious if I was missing something