I haven't had much luck finding any good armor vendors yet. Good luck making your own armor. I know when I had my legendary smith, seems like I should have been making better armor and weapons than I was with Copper and Bronze hammers. As far as tailoring goes, you might have a bit more luck making what you want with kits. I used to use Spined kits here and there to make newbies some decent armor. Right now my armor is really bad on all my characters. Been trying to piece stuff together from random vendors. Especially for my pally. When I get my mining up and I can mine/smelt dull copper, gonna raise my smithing a bit make some good Physical Resist armor. Maybe I will have some hammers by then. Whatever happened to vendors having a surplus of Dull Copper and Shadow hammers? Don't people turn in Bods anymore? Lol...
My mage needs some med armor. Some LRC would be nice or anything of that nature. But I don't want to have to shell out a bunch of gold for just one piece of armor. (like 200k for a pair of sleeves with a LRC on them)
If I find any armor shops I will let ya know.