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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theNater" data-source="post: 4292246" data-attributes="member: 62560">The wacky thing about this is that you can do it with many character classes.  The monster knowledge checks can, if high enough, give you all the information you need to target the monster's weaknesses.  The skills that provide monster knowledge are Arcana, Dungeoneering, Nature and Religion.  Wizards have all of these as class skills, while clerics and rangers have two each.  Given your desire to have full armor, I'd go with a cleric(in chainmail).  You'll need your first two feats for Skill Training in Nature and Dungeoneering, and then you'll be all set.You'll want high wisdom and intelligence for the ability bonuses to the skills, so if cleric isn't to your taste, you can go with paladin.  He's got full-on plate, but will need 3 Skill Training feats, so he won't be fully up to speed until level 4.  If you want the martial power source, none of them will require more than 5 feats to get into heavy armor with all four skills(rogue is worst, fighter needs 4, warlord and ranger need 3 each, and warlord has a good intelligence build avaliable).  Eladrin and humans can speed the aquisition of necessary abilities up, each in their own way.</blockquote>