Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post
A ranger implies a wildsman, someone skilled with bow, blade, land, and beast. The bow is their favored weapon, but their strengths are more skilled towards wilderness survival. An archer is a person who's a snap shot with a bow, nothing else.

In regards to the thread in general, let me put this in bold. Your character is not defined by the class they have currently equipped. They are defined by what skills they equip. It doesn't matter if I currently have a Thm scepter equipped - if I fill my action bars with healing and buffs, I'm a white mage.

The problem we have at the moment is that we don't have all the class skills necessarily to create the classes we want. As they add new classes and skills, that should be fixed.
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You can put all the abilities you want from other classes on your THM but you won't be doing anything but gimping yourself.

People are going to be okay with this type of thing while leveling but when the game matures and everyones into endgame, no one is going to pick a THM buffing with CON spells over a CON.