I like creating different classes and different looking characters. I like to look like a viking / rus warrior / samurai / middle eastern / western knight / armored knight and use weapons that suit those styles.
The problem is stats. If I want to look like a 14th century western knight I can find transitional armor and helmet that looks nice and a nice shield. OK... but the best weapon that I can suite for this is warhammer. I would like to use flanged mace, but with its 25 blunt it simply sucks.
For an 13-14th century middle-eastern knight I can find armors ok, but iron mace or arabian sword again suck with stats. Yet again a few items that aren't used because of their stats?
Who uses military pick when u can get steel pick? Why use iron battle axe when u have iron war axe? Many low level 2h axes that look nice are not used because they suck in stats.
Most of the lighter and cheaper equipment look nice, but often are totally unused, because of their stats. I got money to do all kinds of characters, but what pisses me off that some equipment that look nice sucks badly in stats.
This problem is the same with many other games. Once u have the money u don't use items with poor stats and those nice looking items get unused. 90% of the items are just waste, when they could bring more life into this game. I want to use all items, but I don't want to suffer from significantly poor stats. Same with armors. I also would like to use armored horses with poorer stats and look awesome. I would like to look like an armored archer instead of a peasant in rags, not breaking the gamebalance of course.
Looks is everything.
