Cloth on low level moonkin

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Hi, I recently started a new moonkin on a F2P account.

I haven't played in a few years and was wondering if there is a penalty for wearing cloth gear? I vaguely remember there being such a penalty. Does that apply for low level?

[Lodreh]

Shouldn't be a problem til 70 or 80... forget which

[Elunedra]

well there is a bonus for weaing all leather +5% interlect.
but this doesnt become available until level 50

[Lafdet]

Most of the time, no. The 5% int is so easily overdone with secondaries and more int on cloth gear before higher gear levels that you should not worry of it, the 5% also requires like level 40 or so.

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At level 50 you get a passive that increases your intellect by 5% if you wear only leather armor. Until then there's no real drawback from cloth.

[Bluesftw]

at lvl 50 you'll get leather specialisation (+5% intelect when wearing leather in each slot) , but it shouldnt even matter till like 70-80 lvl

[Lunnar]

There's no real drawback to wearing Cloth while Leveling. I've used Cloth Heirlooms on a Boomkin all the way to Level 85 before. Just think that 5% Intellect Bonus for all Leather is going to be bigger the more Intellect you have (higher Level). Once you hit Level 85+ and Heirlooms stop working you can start focusing on just Caster Leather Gear while Questing in Pandaria.

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Thanks all!