Ranger - PvE Build
- Great CC
- Good for Solo Play
- Great Mobility
- High AOE DPS
- Squishy
Overview
This Ranger build offers amazing AOE DPS but also good single target DPS, making the Ranger a fantastic choice for both solo and group PVE content regardless of the path you choose in Ashes of Creation. The build becomes much stronger as you get to higher level and get access to hard hitting skills like 
Raining Death and 
Thundering Shot as they greatly increase your damage potential and are your main damaging skills alongside 
Snipe and 
Headshot for single target DPS.
Skills
Feel free to ignore the skill upgrade order. You can also pick up 
Siphoning Regeneration to help with mana and HP sustain but its rarely needed. Depending on what party you are playing with, you can also swap out 
Enhance Armament: Barbs for another that better synergizes with your party.
Equipment
Once at Radiant gear level, start with The Hawk Bow then upgrade to either Nightreaver Longbow (more HP) or Pyrebrand Longbow (more glass cannon/damage oriented). Both are very good regardless. You can also consider opting for Moltruin/Rosarium armor set instead as long the HP meta remains in effect. Another set you can go for thats considerably cheaper and easier to get is the Gloomraider.
Weapons
Stamina
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
- 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 
Power Shot to build focus then transition into 
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.
- First, ensure that both Enhance Armament: Barbs and
Hunt of the Tiger are active. These skills are very useful as they improve DPS considerably, with Enhance Armament: Barbs applying bleed. Meanwhile, Hunt of the Tiger greatly increases your critical damage.
- If you have a tank, let them pull mobs together before using Bear Trap and letting the mobs run over it to deal damage and also snare the mobs. Follow up with
Scatter Shot two times in order to apply bleed then turn it into Hemorrage with 
Vine Field. Use Thundering Shot to then apply the Shocked debuff and boost Raining Death damage to deal even more AOE DPS before using Lightning Reload to use Raining Death again.
