I'm seeing this new armor class and I see that it's in the ranger SOI. I don't expect this will be "better leather" but i'm curious where the stealth hindrance will be and what kind of protection sewn plate armor will give. I may be willing to backtrain LP if it meant i'd not be a one shot wonder in invasions.

SOI only impacts the bonusing of skills. You aren't better with Brig because it is in your SOI, it just means you get the full bonus when your Brig is bonused somehow.

Rangers have no way of bonusing non-leather armor, so you may not want to base your decision solely on the SOI thing.

GENT

I've been thinking about that for Thieves for a few weeks now, so I'd love to know just overall the answer to that question.

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> there's no way to boost it with spells or abilities?

Just because there's no ranger spell doesn't mean you can't do it. If you get your hands on a scroll of YS, for example, you would get your SOI bonus when casting it on brigandine.

>>"Just because there's no ranger spell doesn't mean you can't do it. If you get your hands on a scroll of YS, for example, you would get your SOI bonus when casting it on brigandine."

That's a good point I guess.

With Rangers being a stealth focused guild, how is brigantine being justified as being in their SoI? Not saying it shouldn't be. I'm more just curious to hear the thought process.

>>how is brigantine being justified as being in their SoI?

My guess would be aesthetics.

If you look at all the revised SoI lists, it appears that the armor secondary guilds get 4 armor skills in their SoI. Remove Plate and Shield and you are left with Defending, Light Armor, Chain and Brig.

As Brig only appears in one other SoI (Paladin) you are left searching for a lonely Paladin to cast some spell on you to make full use of your Brig SoI bonus. In short, it really isn't worth it.

GENT