Capes in other games look like garbage. The physics are very hard to pull off. Also, see the movie "The Incredibles". It has a comedic yet awesome reason for not having one.
In a game this buggy; with 50% of the classes severely underpowered, 2/3 of the weapons skills nearly useless, and 2/3 of the armor skills severely gimped; where it's a huge pain to find a group for a
Cloaks/Capes would need to be done carefully, they would need to match the armour type (Ie you shouldn't have a cloth cloak over leather armour, or leather cloak over cloth armour)(no metal cloaks eit
Cloaks and capes are boring and hide the far better variety/appearance of your armor from a significant percent of your (and other persons) view. Tabards are bad enough, let's not add cloaks.
This is the kicker for me. I dont want capes/cloaks as an additional stat booster. If they're purely cosmetic and optional to wear, then I'm all for it. If other people want them, cool, I just don't w
Arnt cloaks and capes the same thing? But yes, and no if they look as crappy as the tabards i mean seriously, if you look at a banner outside a town shop and compare it to the tabard texture...bloody