Ranger - Core Power Ranger

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on February 15, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

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

• 24px Juvenile Smokescale - very high damage pet
• 24px Juvenile Jacaranda - excellent for general use
• 24px Juvenile Rock Gazelle - high damage and great CC
• 24px Juvenile Pink Moa or 24px Juvenile Electric Wyvern - CC
• 24px Juvenile Bristleback or 24px Juvenile Smokescale - tanky pets with high damage
• 24px Juvenile Marsh Drake - tanky pet with some area damage; good underwater
• 24px Juvenile Wolf - powerful area crowd control.

Skill Variants

• "Protect Me!" - stunbreak
• Healing Spring - condition cleanse
• Frost Spirit - extra damage in static fights
• Stone Spirit - extra defense in static fights
• Signet of Stone - extra toughness and a panic button
• Lightning Reflexes - alternative stun break and extra dodge.

Specializations

Variants

• Spotter - more consistent crit chance / buffs allies
• Trapper's Expertise - if running Healing Spring.
• Resounding Timbre - better utility.

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
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - Defense
• Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget dps
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air, Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy - budget DPS (replaces Sigil of Superior Sigil of Infiltration)

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 Rapid Fire, Barrage, and Whirling Defense while using Frost Trap and your pet's abilities to maintain uptime on Predator's Onslaught.

Defense

• Hunter's Shot can be used to disengage with stealth.
• One tactic for dealing with dangerous enemies is to bring 24px Juvenile Brown Bear or another tanky pet
• If having trouble surviving, you can run Stone Spirit or Signet of Stone.
• Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible.

Crowd Control

• Hilt Bash
• Counterattack
• Point Blank Shot
• Your pet’s F2 skill
• Signet of the Wild (as a last resort)