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

25

18

14

23

13

19

20

16

15

17

8

7

10

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 this Fighter leveling build, start by focusing on Escape Velocity to boost your movement speed while sprinting in combat (default key C). This becomes especially 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 improve your evasion rate while dodging. This also unlocks Springstep, which significantly enhances mobility by increasing the distance you can roll.

After that, allocate remaining points to the Guard Training branch to reduce stamina drain while blocking (default key E). Adding Mental Fortification is also helpful, as it lowers the chance of being crowd-controlled (CC’d) while blocking, which can be situationally useful.

Rotations

Low Level AOE Burst Rotation ↴

First make sure that you have both File:-1Imbue Ammo: Weighted 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.