clarification on trick riding feat

[zmanerism]

I read the trick riding feat and am not totally clear.

trick Riding (Combat)

You are not only skilled at controlling a horse in combat; you can make it look like art.

Prerequisites: Ride 9 ranks, Mounted Combat.

Benefit: While wearing light or no armor, you do not need to make Ride skill checks for any task listed in the Ride skill with a DC of 15 or lower. You do not take a –5 penalty for riding a mount bareback. You can make a check using Mounted Combat to negate a hit on your mount twice per round instead of just once.

Looking at the last part about negating a hit on your mount twice. Does one have to be wearing light or no armor for that to work. I am thinking of playing a mounted ranger and thus wearing medium armor.

[bigkilla]

zmanerism wrote:

I read the trick riding feat and am not totally clear.

trick Riding (Combat)

You are not only skilled at controlling a horse in combat; you can make it look like art.

Prerequisites: Ride 9 ranks, Mounted Combat.

Benefit: While wearing light or no armor, you do not need to make Ride skill checks for any task listed in the Ride skill with a DC of 15 or lower. You do not take a –5 penalty for riding a mount bareback. You can make a check using Mounted Combat to negate a hit on your mount twice per round instead of just once.

Looking at the last part about negating a hit on your mount twice. Does one have to be wearing light or no armor for that to work. I am thinking of playing a mounted ranger and thus wearing medium armor.

I am currently playing a mounted ranger as well and planning on taking the entire mounted combat chain and I would say he needs to be in light or no armor.But as it is worded you could probably take it to mean that he only needs the light or no armor to take the free ride checks of 15 or lower. I plan on having my ranger never wear armor so it makes no real difference in my case.

you could always just get a mithril breastplate or something that counts as light armor.