Flash forward to Wrath of the Lich King. There are now three guild wars gold plate wearing classes. Two of them (six total talent specs) have absolutely no use for spell plate. Well, the Protection tree was revamped, so tanking Paladins do guild wars gold not wear it. Retribution has been giving spell plate the stink eye forever. So we now have 1 out of 9 possible specs wearing the stuff, and yet it drops everywhere. There is no guild wars gold reason spell plate needs to exist, much less be a protected species by Blizzard when they went out of their way to do away with tanking leather to get guild wars gold, for example.