Greetings, adventurer! Welcome to our Ashes of Creation PVE guide for the Ranger archetype.
A few points to note down:
- If you are new to the archetype, check out our beginer guide, where skills are explained.
- The build and the equipment are set for the current end game experience. In other words – what you can aim for.
- The build is designed around group play(party/raid).
Skills
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Vine Field is an amazing AOE skill. It can assist the Tank of the party/raid with collecting the mobs. It can advance the Bleeding into Hemorraging from all enemies caught into the skill effect. However, there is one unfortunate downside. The visuals of the Vine Field can obscure unfriendly AOE abilities, especially in enclosed locations such as Tower of Carphin.
Be aware of your surroundings when using Air Strike. You may end up pulling unwanted mobs or landing on an AOE from a mob (especially the nasty “spit” from the zombies).
Party Stride is a situational skill which could help you and your party to move faster to a location. Use it when you are caught off guard and the party has to reach a safer location, quicker.
Bear Trap is another situational skill which you may find a little use in a group environment.
Hunt of the Raven works well with both Mark of the Bear and Mark of the Tiger.
In order to increase your damage output, you can drop either Party Stride or Bear Trap for Hunt of the Tiger in combination with Mark of the Tiger. Especially against less armored targets.
Stamina
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Utilize the stamina in order to avoid incoming AOE damage. For example, Sighted Fanatic’s AOE ability can one-shot you.
Melee Weapon
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The melee weapon should provide as high as possible physical power rating. Having strenght on it makes it even better.
What to aim for:
- Get bleed and snare from deadly finishers
- Increased proc chance for finishers
- Swordmaster attack speed buff and while it is active to have bonus damage
- Concussion and Concussion: Flexible Finishers.
Ranged Weapon
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Comparing the deadly finishers of Longbow and Shortbow, the latter provides more benefits to the Ranger’s toolkit.
In addition, the fast-paced auto-attacks contribute to more finishers overall.
Currently, boosting your Strength stats is the best way to increase your physical damage output.
Equipment
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Important: The gearing process is slow! All the displayed items can drop, but to get them to legendary quality you will need the crafting recipe. It will require considerable dedication or help in order to achieve those crafts. Even if the materials are available, a town with journeyman stations will be required.
There is a set which the Rangers can pursue in Tower of Carphin – Bloodrunner.
However, if you are into crafting or part of a group which can craft specific items for you. This way, you can end up with more raw power, compared to the Bloodrunner set. Of course, that would be for the sake of defense stats. The suggested gear will help you become a “glass cannon” if that is your prefered style.
There are 4 options for medium gear designed for physical damage dealers.
Here are the stats comparison:
Gearing tips
Tip 1: Do not immediately jump on level 20 items. Some level 10 rare items are worth enchanting and could still provide more than common or uncommon level 20. Especially if there is no Journeyman Scriber available. Head to our starting guide to check for the items, which are worth keeping/grinding for in order to boost up your character, until the meantioned items in this build are available for you.
Tip 2: General rule for weapons would be to always equip the combination, which will provide the highest power rating. Naturally, level 20 weapons will give more than those from level 10:
Tip 3: Be mindful that some weapons (or gear), even in same level range can have very different power rating stats:
Brass Longbow is slightly weaker than Bronze Longbow.
