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<blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 8593951" data-attributes="member: 7034710">Something I feel is unfortunate for the ranger(and while i love it this is a problem) is that it overlaps into several distinct archetypes but does none of them very well, the dedicated archer/ranged weapons user, the beastmaster, the herbalist/potionmaker/chemist nonmagical healer+buffer, the monster slayer, the explorer, all would be fine archetypes by themselves but because the ranger has one foot in the door of all of them it doesn’t feel justified making a new class so similar to something we already haveThe swordmage has been mentioned, someone who properly intergrates and synergies magic and melee into a single style, not just ‘im a fighter with a small handful of spells’ or ‘warlock who has a single magic blade but is 95% a regular caster’.A proper stealth magic user, who uses magic to supplement their sneaking, blink/invisibility, illusions, darkness/fog cloud, charm/mind control.A blue mage/chimera type, who can absorb/mimic the body parts or abilities of the monsters and beasts they come across.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CreamCloud0, post: 8593951, member: 7034710"] Something I feel is unfortunate for the ranger(and while i love it this is a problem) is that it overlaps into several distinct archetypes but does none of them very well, the dedicated archer/ranged weapons user, the beastmaster, the herbalist/potionmaker/chemist nonmagical healer+buffer, the monster slayer, the explorer, all would be fine archetypes by themselves but because the ranger has one foot in the door of all of them it doesn’t feel justified making a new class so similar to something we already have The swordmage has been mentioned, someone who properly intergrates and synergies magic and melee into a single style, not just ‘im a fighter with a small handful of spells’ or ‘warlock who has a single magic blade but is 95% a regular caster’. A proper stealth magic user, who uses magic to supplement their sneaking, blink/invisibility, illusions, darkness/fog cloud, charm/mind control. A blue mage/chimera type, who can absorb/mimic the body parts or abilities of the monsters and beasts they come across. [/QUOTE]

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