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If you can have wizards hunting wizards, I don't see why your DM should freak out about a mystic ranger hunting down arcanists. Your reasoning seems fine.

As far as dead levels go, it is not the end of the world, but the suggestions made were good ones, so I'd follow them.

I believe that Order of the Shooting Star does not allow those spells to be cast as arcane spells, but I don't see it as a big deal if they do count as arcane, as long as ASF is an issue to balance that.

I would recommend Dragon 340 page 50 for the Moon-Warded ranger, who gets wis to armor class as a substitution level. I just finished playing in another adventure (4e) and am considering playing in a 3.5 game with this variant ranger as well, but in Golarion instead of The Realms.

Have Fun.

Why don't you use Tome of Battle? A Crusader 2/Swordsage 2/Cleric 1/Ruby Knight Inquisitor gets you everything you were asking for.

Wear any armor, or get Wis to AC without wearing any? Check
Ability to perform crazy combat maneuvers? Check
Some turn undead ability? Check
Spells? Check
Ability to Teleport using Shadow Hand Maneuvers? Check

Cool stuff.

If you like it simpler, simply go Crusader/Swordsage without the other stuff; same thing except for turning.

Hope that helps.

-E