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
Equipment
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
Imbue Ammo: Barbed 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.
- First, ensure that both Imbue Ammo: Barbed and
Hunt of the Tiger are active. These skills are very useful as they improve DPS considerably, with Imbue Ammo: Barbed 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.
