he couldnt move fast enough
Knights started wearing plate armor for better protection against arrows and weapons in battle. This armor increased their defense but also reduced their mobility. Additionally, plate armor allowed knights to display their status and wealth.
Death Knight don't wear "DK Armor", they can wear anything from cloth to plate. In a DK's first 4-6 levels you can get armor and weapons that no one else can get because they are rewards for DK only quests. If the other plate wearing classes could get it, they also could wear the armor.
for protection
chainmail armor helmet chest plate gauntlets footwear
chainmail armor helmet chest plate gauntlets footwear
You cannot get the Lich King's armor. However, if you wish to get armor that looks similar, there is level 80 plate in Naxxramas that resembles Death Knight armor. Similarly, the pieces of Deathbone plate armor that drop in Scholomance (level 58-60) also have a similar style.
well if they went naked they'd be cold
A knight in armor typically wears a metal suit called a full plate armor, which covers the entire body for protection in battle. The armor is made up of multiple pieces including a helmet, cuirass, gauntlets, greaves, and sabatons. The knight's armor is often adorned with emblems or designs specific to their family or lord.
A sabaton (or sabbaton) is a part of a knight's armour which covers the foot.
Some knights began to put plates of metal over vital parts of their bodies for added protection. Soon they were completely covered in plate armor and they stoppedwearingchain mail. By the 1400s most knights were wearingfull plate armor. ... Many pieces of the armor had a unique name.
No - Light armor is leather, cloth, etc. Plate armor is considered heavy armor.
yes Not always in the early stages of Plate it was nessercary since the armourer could not cover most of the body. However when we reach the Gothic and then later Maximillian and Grenwich style armour the chain becomes useless since there were so few openings in the plate that wearing chain would only slow the wearer down, there are even examples of late period armour where there are no openings what-so-ever and every plate overlaps on itself.