Questing, no. Making sense, yes.
Rare armors should be few and far between, most adventurers should be found wearing cloth, leather, hide, ringmail, and maybe a few pieces of platemail. Guards and people who have a meaning in society, which does exclude adventurers if you think about it, would be wearing either cloth, merchant tradesfolk, or platemail, guards and nobles. Much was the way of our own world. Course armies were always supplied with a diversity of armor.
I dont think that making armor should be so simple, or making GOOD armor should be so simple. Tailors would probably be more popular among the lesser folk, and smiths more popular among the rich, and noble ones.
I think different animals should drop different hides, able to make better or worse armor. There should never be regular "leather armor". Hair or silk should make cloth, hide should make leather, ore should make, well metal armor.
Then there would be soandso many stages in between turning the raw material into something useful. Ore into ingots, into whatever. If you catch my meaning.
Then again, this may only apply to strong player based tradeskill economy servers, where a Rat Skin Hide Tunic would make a lowbie adventurer well kept for the time being.
In other words, it could get real complicated. How to get most of the material is pretty easy. A bear could drop a bear pelt, when you skin that pelt you get the hide, and hair. The hair can be thrown away, or used to sew. The hide can thrown away, or refined and used to make armor.
Ore on the other hand, could be a problem. Maybe there is a way to code it in... make a mob that looks like a rock for instance, when you attack it with a pick, you have a chance of recieving the mineral it would supply you with. This may be possible, kind of like a pickpotting skill, for a miner unto a rock. If that at all makes sense.
Gemcutters would pay miners to find rare crystals(Crystal caverns comes to mind), that could only be found in one place, or hides of unimaginable strength, could be found on only one beast(dragons =P).
Just some thought, if not too much.
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