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Message: <blockquote data-quote="irdeggman" data-source="post: 4556354" data-attributes="member: 16285">I was going with the fact that armor does not affect manifesting powers and that the attack is part of the manifesting - or is it a separate "action".if the attack is a free action then it is part of the manifesting is it not?Per table 8-2 making a ranged attack while in a threatened square provokes an AoO.Now if making the attack is not part of the manifesting/casting then there are 2 AoO openings being generated. If it is part of the manifesting/casting then there is only 1.If it is part of the manifesting/casting then the rules for casting/manifesting apply (as a precedence) and it states that armor does not affect manifesting powers.Just to point out additional ramifications of not treating the attack as part of the minfesting (or casting). If you manifest/cast defensivel then you would still generate an AoO when making the ranged attack. This happened to me when I was playing in PbP game. My PC successfully manifested energy ray defenesively only to take an AoO from an Ogre. I argued to the DM to no avail on that one - I also pointed out that if that was the "proper" interpretation then any attack roll made by an archer would generate one (so using firing multiple arrows in a round would generate multiple AoO, even though a single action type can ony generate one AoO per opponent).</blockquote>