Mithril Armor on a Ranger

[Dhá Sciath]

I know Combat Style Feats don't work when you are wearing Heavy Armor, but how does that interact with Mithral? I know that you need Heavy Armor Proficiency to counteract the penalties, but when you wear it, it counts as Medium armor for the purpose of movement and other limitations. Does Combat Style fit under "limitations"?

[CyderGnome]

Dhá Sciath wrote:

I know Combat Style Feats don't work when you are wearing Heavy Armor, but how does that interact with Mithral? I know that you need Heavy Armor Proficiency to counteract the penalties, but when you wear it, it counts as Medium armor for the purpose of movement and other limitations. Does Combat Style fit under "limitations"?

Mithral armor is treated as being one category lighter for all considerations except proficiency... So if you are proficient in Heavy Armor you are good to go.

[Dhá Sciath]

From Paizo's website:

The benefits of the ranger's chosen style feats apply only when he wears light, medium, or no armor. He loses all benefits of his combat style feats when wearing heavy armor. Once a ranger selects a combat style, it cannot be changed.

It IS heavy armor, even though it counts as medium. It opens up the possibility that you check what the item actually is, instead of what it counts as.

I know it's dumb, but I had a lengthy argument with a GM at PFS over it, because of that ambiguity.

[bookrat]

Specifics over rule the general. I'm a PFS GM as well; mithril armor works just fine with Rangers in PFS.

The specifics of mithril says it counts as one category lighter for all things except proficiency. The Rangers combat style is not proficiency; ergo it counts.

[Dhá Sciath]

That should do the trick. Thanks.

[TGMaxMaxer]

Interesting note, the Slayer gets the benefits of choosing a Ranger style and ignores pre-reqs, but the Slayer does not have the line about being limited to medium armor to do so.

So, provided you have the prof, for a slayer, you can use ranger styles in heavy armor.

Just in case you didn't want the ranger class per se, but the skill/combat options.