Barbarian Armor; No Leather Clad Freaks pls

[:1]I like knights better than barbarians – yes yes I did admire the leader of the Franks or Vandals or whatever tribe it was that was berserker crazy and later killed by Maximums in Gladiator but I still like the armored knights in full plate more – though I hated the paladin in D2 because I could not relate to his ummm his ahhhh personage… anyhow I like the look of Full plate and shield or full plate and sword – so I am hoping the way Epic Sweet 60 gear is not decking me out in Magic Bear skin Leathers – I do not want to look like a ranger or a skin wearing thief barbarian – I want cool breast plates and heavy steel vambraces and greaves …
I realize we have many Necromancer freaks out there wierdos who want to wear animal skull helmets and have bone spike armor that looks like a bad sorcerer in a Conan movie – I hate that celt hippie looking savage look – if I want to look like a bone armored Indian I will go to the South West buy a ton of wampum and go dance like an insane hippie at the Burning Man freak fest. I disliked the look of the Barbarian sans a helm in D2 he looked like a freak from a Wu Tang Clan Kung Fu movie with a long topknot. The warrior in D1 was not a hippie was he? I forgot actually but I think he had good hair fashion…
Further I am not wonton to fall in deep and pathetic romance with some hippie looking spiked haired leather clad Barbarian screeching shout girl. I have no doubt there is a build for that but I prefer that my female playmates are comely and adorned in good hair and shiny breastplates buffed well. I do not want an internet girlfriend wearing a frayed orangutan skin cloak and wrapped about her loins in giant stoat skin Capri pants. I like the classic chainmail and exposed belly girls not the rough shod les miserable’s cloth and hide bound beggar shanker alley barbarian waifs.
The game must be aesthetically pleasing to me and not force savagery onto me – the first thing I bought in D2 with my barbarian was a proper half helm – those awful leather caps were quickly sold – I do not see cool kids at Blizzard conventions in Leather coifs – all the high fashion cos-play kids have coil silver helms on – don’t let me down on my metal buff fixation.
|||I want a gimp outfit fo rmy witch doctor.
As much as I like looking badass too I think diversity is a very important aspect in D3. Maybe this time around we will get more choice as to how our characters look?|||

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I want a gimp outfit fo rmy witch doctor.
As much as I like looking badass too I think diversity is a very important aspect in D3. Maybe this time around we will get more choice as to how our characters look?

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There will certainly be more looks for each character, as well as more ways to customize (dyes, more equipment parts). I guess the problem comes from the fact there will actually be less looks per difficulty than in D2 because they're not repeated (I think).|||

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There will certainly be more looks for each character, as well as more ways to customize (dyes, more equipment parts). I guess the problem comes from the fact there will actually be less looks per difficulty than in D2 because they're not repeated (I think).

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Blizzard has learned from this mistake before though.... they dont like spending time on content that the majority of the playerbase wont be using. So why would they do this with d3 and tiered looks for loot (rhetorical)?
One thing is (pulling it outta my ass) maybe we'll have options end game so we can pick throughout whatever armor skins we've already "earned"?
Another thing is im expecting free gameplay altering updates including new loot. Maybe this is one of blizzards ways of keeping it (endgame aesthetics) fresh?|||I will play as Barbarian if the Lv. 60 gear looks like the fully plate armored Warrior from Diablo 1.|||Leather armor lets you run faster, unless you're using a great hauberk/archon plate.