level 75+ chest that ISN'T a "robe"Follow

Hmm, after a quick search the only item 75+ that isn't a robe is the Frost-Rimed Cloth Vest which is the gray random world drop which will do you no good. Looks like your stuck in a "ballgown".

Honestly, I'd rather have a robe for my cloth wearers. The cloth vest and pants combo always seemed boring, that's what I wear everyday. It never had as much detail as the leather through plate items did and cloth pants usually look horrible.
I remember when I was wearing the lvl 70 shadoweave set, it looked stale, unimportant, like a regular peon. Then they changed it to a robe and the details on the robe came out more and it's just seemed to fit better.
So I choose to wear a ballgown on my male toon and if the other people at the ball don't like it I can always set them on fire and feed them to my felhound.

there isn't.. so stop role playing and play the game properly :P

That sounds a very reasonable compromise. I might do that myself.

well, thank-you all for the suggestions.

I guess I made a male toon because I'd rather look at a male character than a female... and I'd rather my male toon wasn't a drag queen.
I do have some female toons, and don't mind them being in ball-gown style robes.

It just seems odd that there are both robe and vest versions of most major recipes along the way to level 70, but that after level 70, all that's available is robes. Leveling up, I could mostly choose the robe or the vest version of the sets I made (Tailoring), and presumed it would be the same all the way to 80.

I guess I will learn to adapt.

Personally, however, since I think our guild tabard is quite attractive (white with blue trim), I like how it looks over a vest considerably more than over a robe. The whole "tucked into the skirt" thing is just incredibly unattractive.

Now if only I could get my toon some teeth made of wood and a crappy looking hair piece made of animal hair I'd be set to look historically accurate, you know, aside from my hands being on fire and an imp constantly giving me crap.

actually, so far, I've always had a choice between vest/tunic and a robe, with identical stats, or nearly so (many sets have both tunic and robe versions of the chest piece).

and I see nothing either wrong or "ridiculous" about wearing a chest piece that isn't a robe. Do Paladins look ridiculous? Or Hunters? or Death Knights? Rogues? Warriors?

Since the option exists throughout MOST of the game as you level, I'm perplexed as to why it suddenly changes at level 75+.

It didn't just change at 75+, you just notice that now because the level cap is 80. At level 60 and 70 the pants/shirt combo disappears as well, you just wouldn't have noticed it as much as you were leveling past and not picking up or making the old end game stuff.

The pants/shirt combo is like the scrub gear for a caster, someone sees it and they don't think much of them(Imagine if Merlin wore a t-shirt and jeans), but the decorated robe gives people notice, "be careful of that guy in the robe, I heard he could make your eyes pop out just by snapping his fingers". For casters the robe is a status symbol and it makes non casters weary because they never truly know what your capable of. A shirt and pants makes people think "Why is that peon carrying a wand?"

if you honestly think people will mistake one class for another in pvp (and still be a threat at pvp..) then you're seriously mistaken and diluded...heck if i were to come up against a 2v2 or 3v3 team who were to actually fall for that trick i'd ask my pvp partner to stand back while i solo the noobs.

the most you can ever hope for in that sense is when a hybrid class wears the head/shoulders of one of their other specs in pvp to TRY and make the opposing team think the dps is actually a healer (or vica versa) and well.. this doesn't work often and when it does it only works for the opening few seconds.. after that it becomes obvious what spec you are

I guess you didn't read the whole thread.
I don't PvP. I don't raid. I barely do instances.

and the concept of "humor" is alien to you?
read the preceding post. it was a tongue-(firmly planted)-in-cheek retort.

Considering I have an 8-ft tall demon walking by my side, I think it would be rather difficult to masquerade as anything OTHER than a Warlock.

(p.s. "deluded" not "diluded")

Edited, Oct 15th 2009 10:30am by capcanuk

only in your opinion.
remember that humour is relative.

who's talking about role-playing?

I merely asked if there was a "short" version of the cloth chestpiece available after level 70-ish.
I'm the one who has to look at my toon.
I would have liked to see him NOT in a robe.
I've avoided wearing robes through most of the game on my male cloth-wearing toons.

It was a question.
About a cosmetic issue.

It seems here that the person taking this far too seriously is you, the "non-RPer".

I tend to laugh at people who take the game too seriously.
See?
We all have different things to laugh at... meaning it's all relative.

Take a chill-pill and relax a bit.
If this thread bothers you so much, then why participate?

I got the answer I needed.
Someone joked. I joked back.
You didn't think it was funny. Did you really need to be a ***** about it?

I guess that Alla gets its occasional O-boards visitors?

So you don't want a robe because you don't want to cover up your character's butt?

Because you want to look at it all the time.

Your male toon's butt.