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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Llamas Notsheep" data-source="post: 4874964" data-attributes="member: 69006">You can make a pretty effective balanced ranger, although he won't excel at either.  He'll only be *gasp* on par with most other strikers.  The main disadvantage you face with splitting things up is the heavy feat cost.  You're going to have to double up on focus and expertise feats.  If you want big hitters, you'll also probably need two weapon proficiency feats - one for a greatbow or superior crossbow, and one for bastard swords or triple-headed flails.  You'll also find that stuff like TWF and TWD don't benefit you when you're using a bow, and vice versa.  You'll also find it massively expensive trying to keep all of your weapons up to date.  You also won't be able to get (e.g.) both iron armbands of power and bracers of archery, and it's those static bonuses stacking up that make rangers so incredible as pure damage strikers.All of that said, if you balance your feat and item choices well, you could make a very effective generalist that (without doing the math here, because I'm hungry) would probably do as much damage in both ranged and melee as most other strikers who aren't using one of the snazzy tricks (half-elf crit fishers, hybrid eladrin feychargers, etc.).</blockquote>