Most needed role on server 40+?

[greatdane]

Yeah. You can pretty much determine the armor type of a class by the basic sets. Cloth, leather, ringmail/banded, bronze/fine plate. A few specific sets bump certain classes up one "level" (totemic is plate, for instance, while the quivalent ivy etched remains chain), but most items follow the standard formula. Stuff like Tolan's armor has plate graphics but less AC than the equivalent pieces for actual plate classes. Doesn't make ranger a plate class.