Ranger - Leveling Build

Overview

Class: Ranger

Designed for: Leveling

Focused on: DPS

Difficulty:

Normal

Strengths

Good for Solo Play
Great Mobility
High AOE DPS

Weaknesses

Squishy
Low Healing until higher level

Overview

This Ranger build focuses on leveling up in Ashes of Creation quickly by making use of the incredible AOE DPS the Ranger offers, with skills like Scatter Shot and Disengage at early levels, making it easy to clear out groups of mobs without any real issues, grinding XP quickly. Even though this Ranger build requires good knowledge of how to kite, it can still be picked up and played well even by new players once you've gotten the hang of it.

Skills

18

14

23

13

19

20

16

15

17

8

7

9

10

6

12

11

22

3

4

5

1

2

Equipment

Weapons

Greatsword

Longbow

Stamina

14

10

21

13

9

20

12

8

19

11

7

18

3

6

17

2

5

16

1

4

15

As you level and progress in Ashes of Creation as a Ranger, Escape Velocity is perfect to boost your movement speed while sprinting in combat (default key C) and it also helps with kiting enemies, making it much easier to AOE farm. This becomes even more important later in the game, allowing you to kite mobs while waiting for cooldowns or to escape dangerous situations entirely if needed.

Next, invest in Recuperation Training and Evasive Maneuver to boost your evasion rate while dodging. This also unlocks Springstep, which greatly improves your mobility by increasing your roll distance.

Afterward, use your remaining points on the Guard Training branch to reduce stamina drain when blocking (default key E). Adding Mental Fortification can also be useful, as it reduces the chance of being crowd-controlled (CC’d) while blocking, which is helpful in certain situations.

Rotations

Low Level AOE Burst Rotation ↴

First make sure that you have both Enhance Armament: Weight and Hunt of the Tiger active as it helps a great deal when kiting by staggering targets you hit. At the same time, Hunt of the Tiger greatly increases the crit damage you do.

Start the rotation by pulling mobs through the use of your bow auto-attacks before lining them up so you hit all of them when using Scatter Shot. Having them in a line helps a great deal once you have Concentrated Scatter Shot active as the width of the skill doesn't reach too far. Finish the rotation with Disengage then either wait for cooldowns before doing another pull or regenerate your HP.

Single Target DPS Rotation ↴

Make sure you are using Enhance Armament: Barbs for this before you use Bear Trap onto the ground between yourself and the enemy as you prepare to pull the mob in question. Use Barrage to apply Bleed then use Snipe to deal very high damage before transitioning straight into Lightning Reload and following up with another Snipe.

Continue the rotation with Thundering Shot and then Headshot once the target is below 50% HP as that will increase the damage you do with Headshot.

High Level AOE Burst Rotation ↴

First, ensure that both Enhance Armament: Weight and Hunt of the Tiger are active. These are very helpful for kiting, as Enhance Armament: Weight staggers the targets you hit, while Hunt of the Tiger significantly boosts your critical damage.

Pull mobs with your bow auto-attacks before luring them together so you can use Scatter Shot two times and apply the Snare debuff thanks to Enhance Armament: Weight. Follow up with Air Strike and flip over the enemies, rooting them in place. Use Thundering Shot in order to apply the Shocked debuff and boost Raining Death damage to deal higher AOE damage.