Personally I believe all ranged rangers should get into chain armor. Why? Because broken arms mean you can't shoot and you get the nice CvA that chain has over hardened leather.

I originally had my ranger as a sniping ranger until he kept getting pulled out of hiding. I moved from brig to a nice set of augmented chain and I have never looked back.

That being said, my question to you is the following. Besides sniping, you mentioned you may want to become more magical. Being fully trained in your armor your hindrance in Brig will be 6% and with Augmented Chain it will be 9%. What hindrance will you be able to tolerate? I know Droit casts a lot and he is in augmented chain. I will cast mass calm when I do bandits. My Sorcerer wears Doubles and his hindrance is 2%. Sometimes even 2% acts like 100% in game.

I don't use scripts when I hunt. I too can't type fast enough or be typo free.

So...

I have setup up macros for my game play.

get 1 arrow from my quiver\rstance off\rfire\r
aim left eye\r
aim right eye\r
gather wooden arrow\rput arrow in my arrows in my quiver\rstance def\r

Macros for haste amulets

open my sack\rget amulet from my sack\rwear my amulet\r
rub my amulet\r






Peace
Zhelas

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(Lord Paladin walks around Droit examining his equipment.)
Lord Paladin: How does he....How does he work?

Hauberk Hauberk Hauberk. 'Nuff said I reckon

Only the dead have seen the end of war - Plato

Radeek Andoran
General, Drakes Vanguard

As a capped archer ranger I've been in both double chain and brig. I far prefer the brig. If you have the training for it you can 620 your own brig but not chain. I've always found hiding and staying hidden easier in brig, especially if you can get a rogue to give you armored stealth. As your DS is primarily dodge based and you lose 2% more of your dodge DS in aug chain than in brig. The cast hindrance has already been mentioned but it cannot be understated as the difference between 6% and 9% can certainly be felt and, as a sniper, you'll be casting 608 frequently.

Keith/Brinret/Shiun

Be nice to Wyrom or I will cut you!

As others have mentioned, I prefer aug chain. I found the extra 2% spell hindrance in hauberk to be just infuriating enough that it bothered me. Plus, I like how the action penalty reduction of aug chain is nice and round (100, 150, 200 ranks), and it allows you to max out the AP reduction whereas hauberk's AP reduction couldn't be maxed out without armor enhancives (220 ranks). I wear my aug chain with the action penalty of cuirbouilli leather. This is obviously more relevant once you hit cap, but even those rangers only approaching level 100 might want to consider bumping their armor use from 70 to 100 to take advantage of that first action penalty reduction; in practical terms, this would make your aug chain only hinder you like chain mail for defending against maneuvers and such.


Droit

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Speaking to you, Ceyrin asks, "Do you spontaneously come back to life when you die?"
Speaking to you, Ceyrin says, "Because I do."
You say, "Yes. I have a condition called Annoraxia.""

I had some amazing FGB way back when and then when I became an archer, started moving up into chain armors...was wearing double chain up till 60ish and then went from there to augmented chain. Its 5x and very very light...used points to get it crit padded and have been insanely happy (was before fusion). Have taken hits that I know would have torn through brig or lower chain armors, even survived a Vaep cast to the head the other day. All told, I would say the min that a ranger should be getting into is double chain after 50. But to each their own.

>Well pup went up to about 90 in 5x brig. Really storyline invasions and warcamps really pushed him into chain.

I think that's it, really. This character has always chased after the quests, jumped into invasions and basically, he lives a very dangerous life, so I like the heavier armors. I have a younger ranger archer, his protege', who does not get involved in such things, and I've got him in brigandine, and will probably keep him there for a very long time, if not permanently, just to tinker with a more traditional build.

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~ Bill, Coyote.
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

>>I was in FGB until my late 70's or early 80's and moved to Hauberk then.<<

I always considered the main advantage Hauberk had over FGB was spell protection the increased CvA. From what I have read, the crit reduction from the padding makes FGB about equal to hauberk as far as physical protection from blows is concerned. Did you notice much difference after switching? Of course, if your hauberk was padded, then that's a serious advantage.

"So, what does that green line on the graph represent?"
"Oh, that's the projection of a hypothetical offspring from a union between Sauron and Cruella de Ville; we use that as a baseline for determining character alignment."

Right; if both armors have the same crit padding, then, as I mentioned, the hauberk will clearly offer more protection. Question answered.

"So, what does that green line on the graph represent?"
"Oh, that's the projection of a hypothetical offspring from a union between Sauron and Cruella de Ville; we use that as a baseline for determining character alignment."

Lol damn i forgot about that feature. Since it may be a while before i can get it on there i may go this route for the storyline. Thanks brian.