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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5085407" data-attributes="member: 54846">But, notice your examples all preclude guys who stand in the BACK and fire ranged attacks. Getting in and out of melee isn't what they're focused on doing. Hell, all of those guys have powers to get them OUT of melee (teleportation or powers that let them flee).They aren't about movement because they don't need to move. Any class that gets into melee and gets out (Avenger, Barbarian, Rogue, Melee Ranger, Assassin, Monk) is heavily encouraged to move their ass. Heavy armor would hamper that. Even the Tempest Fighter, which does a lot of shifting and moving, has incentives for light armor. Namely these strikers move because they don't want to get surrounded (as they can easily get splattered having low Hp and low armor), or need to move around the front ranks to get to the back ranks. Or chase down fleeing enemies (in the Avenger's case).Thus, a heavy armored melee striker would have issues getting around the front ranks to the better targets.</blockquote>