Ranger - Basic Ranger

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and Open World Core

Overview

A basic but effective open world ranger build that F2P players can access. The Longbow Beastmaster is surprisingly powerful for a Core class and performs very well in event farming and casual solo open world.

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Skill Bar

Longbow

Sword/Axe

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Greatsword - can replace Longbow
• Axe (mainhand) - higher burst but lower DPS than Sword.
• Warhorn - boons

Pet Variants

High damage pets

• Fanged Iboga, Jacaranda, any feline such as Lynx.

Good mix of damage and crowd control

• Smokescale, Rock Gazelle, any canine such as Wolf.

Good on-demand crowd control

• Rock Gazelle, Pink Moa, Electric Wyvern, Wolf.

Tanky pets

• Drakes such as Marsh Drake provide the best mix of damage and tankiness, but bears and devourers are also very tanky pets.

Skill Variants

• - stunbreak for you and allies, and personal barrier and protection.
• - condition cleanse.
• - extra damage in static fights, can be considered in group play.
• - extra defense in static fights, can be considered in group play.
• - extra defense.
• - extra toughness and a panic button.
• - alternative stun break and extra dodge.

Specializations

Variants

• - more consistent crit chance / buffs allies
• - if running .
• - better utility.
• can enable an alternative playstile where you run 2 longbows and use this trait to cast every weapon swap. This playstyle is very vulnerable to projectile block/reflect and lacks mobility, but can be very fun.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required; exotic with the same stats will work fine.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Longbow
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• Knight - defensive trinkets
• - Defense
• - budget dps
• , - budget DPS (replaces )

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

Damage

Use big skills like , , and while using and your pet's abilities to maintain uptime on .

Defense

• can be used to disengage with stealth.
• Against dangerous enemies, send a tanky pet in first with Attack My Target so they tank for you.
• If having trouble surviving, you can run or .
• Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible.

Crowd Control

• Your pet’s F2 skill
• (as a last resort)