Rangers and cultural armor

[Hawala]

So my best friend just started EQ and wanted to make a Ranger. As a pretty high level blacksmith, I am looking for what to make him, and I just made the discovery that Rangers get screwed over bad in the cultural armor area.

Paladins, Warriors and Shadowknights get tremendous advantage out of the plate sets, and the chain sets that Rangers can use is also usable by intelligence casters and druids.

Please tell me this is wrong.