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Why I dont understand the reasoning for rangers with mando armor. I see the use for ranger skills

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TarannisBane wrote:
Why I dont understand the reasoning for rangers with mando armor. I see the use for ranger skills

with BH the traking is a great help. But as a stand alone prof why Rangers and not say CH or combat medic. Mando I feel should be a BH only armor they are the only people that wear it anywere in the SWU they are eather mercs or BHs.

Not saying rangers dont need some love I just feel this is one of those well rangers are rare so lets through them a bone.

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I agree with you here, Tarannis. I see no reason why we should get the Mando Armor. If we want it, we should have to get at least Novice BH. I don't see why rangers should be considered in the same vein as BH, as we are completely different. That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

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TarannisBane wrote:
Why I dont understand the reasoning for rangers with mando armor. I see the use for ranger skills

with BH the traking is a great help. But as a stand alone prof why Rangers and not say CH or combat medic. Mando I feel should be a BH only armor they are the only people that wear it anywere in the SWU they are eather mercs or BHs.

Not saying rangers dont need some love I just feel this is one of those well rangers are rare so lets through them a bone.

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The current form of Ranger is not something that the community finds acceptable. We are pushing for the Devs to make us a lot more than an Uber Scout. Along these lines, many Rangers are pushing for the profession to become the stealthy element of an army, also acting as debuffers (from the wayfaring and advanced trapping lines, respectively). Such roles would make us essential to any well planned army, providing scouting information and applying various state effects to the enemy. This sort of Ranger would fit with the Mandalorian cert and with the GCW endgame that the Devs are proposing. I'm not even going to comment on giving the armor to CHs or CMs. And the Mandalorians were a very militaristically minded race. They would need Scouts in their army. They didn't need Medics or pets.

As for the link to a previous discussion on this, check this thread.

The others are being nice. I am not nice -

We don't care what BHs think. Take your KMart specials and move along - nothing to see here.

Technically - only commandos should get the cert. The armor is military, so are they.

The reason it hasn't been discussed much here is simple - we don't much care, most of us don't wear armor. We don't have to, we are smarter than our prey and don't get hit.

have a nice day, go find something you can find and kill.

JB

Hmmm. I think putting Mandolorian armor into the game under any circumstance is wrong, regardless of who is getting certs for it.

As far as Rangers getting it....well, since I've never actually seen or read anything official on what Mandolorians are/were, what they did, etc. it is hard for me to know whether or not the certs fit the EU or not.....

it is indeed weird that they give heavy armor to a ranger. A ranger should wear camouflage, not a heavy armor suit. I was actually expecting smuggler to have the cert.

Message Edited by Owen-Lars on 05-11-2004 01:07 PM

Aren't they revamping Ranger to be more combat oriented with the combat balance? Even then it is odd that rangers get this cert *shrug*.