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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3377677" data-attributes="member: 8158">What surprises me is that you speak with such an air of authority about something that you're speculating about yourself. I suspect Monte has a better inside track.As to my own speculation, when Monte says rangers were given 2WF with the intent of providing them a &quot;niche&quot;, it's probably not so much that 2WF is very &quot;rangerly&quot;, but rather it has to do with the simple realization that once you sit down and analyze it, &quot;ranger&quot; is more of a general idea than an actual class with a unique party role. Other than being a character that can fight like a fighter and creep around like a rogue, what else really makes a ranger unique, special, and worthy of its own class, particularly in the offensive class features department? If a ranger isn't fighting giants or whatever his favored enemy is, is he just a crappy fighter? Or even more broken, is he a fighter-plus even when not fighting his favored foe? Perhaps at the time, 2WF was the best the designers could think up to give rangers their own combat angle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felon, post: 3377677, member: 8158"] What surprises me is that you speak with such an air of authority about something that you're speculating about yourself. I suspect Monte has a better inside track. As to my own speculation, when Monte says rangers were given 2WF with the intent of providing them a "niche", it's probably not so much that 2WF is very "rangerly", but rather it has to do with the simple realization that once you sit down and analyze it, "ranger" is more of a general idea than an actual class with a unique party role. Other than being a character that can fight like a fighter and creep around like a rogue, what else really makes a ranger unique, special, and worthy of its own class, particularly in the offensive class features department? If a ranger isn't fighting giants or whatever his favored enemy is, is he just a crappy fighter? Or even more broken, is he a fighter-plus even when not fighting his favored foe? Perhaps at the time, 2WF was the best the designers could think up to give rangers their own combat angle. [/QUOTE]

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