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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CardinalXimenes" data-source="post: 3947903" data-attributes="member: 58259">A fighter can use a bow just fine, so simply being proficient at bow usage doesn't appear to be the issue here. The evident issue is access to a ranger's suite of bow-related abilities, since the degree of bowy awesomeness possessed by a character will always be measured against possessors of those abilities. Because fighters can't acquire those talents without extra resource expenditure, it appears you're seeing a problem.I'm not seeing it. Fighters are Defenders, and rangers are Strikers. If you don't want your fighter-archer's bow skills to be overshadowed by the ranger-archer, you're going to need to move the entire suite of bow talents to the fighter, or else your archer-centric concept will always be better off picking ranger over fighter. If you do move the entire tree over to the fighters, then you don't have a Defender any more, you have a melee Defender class that can alternatively turn into a ranged Striker without any crosstraining costs.I think it has to be remembered that the fighter shtick _is not_ "If you want to master any weapon, pick me!" It is now "If you want to be a melee Defender, pick me!". Objecting that the fighter now is no longer the optimal choice for weapon mastery in any arbitrary weapon is a complaint about what a fighter does now, not a complaint that the fighter is poorly designed for its shtick. Default archer-centric concepts are rangers now. That's not a bug, it's a feature.</blockquote>

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