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 26, 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

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

• "Protect Me!" - stunbreak for you and allies, and personal barrier and protection.
• Healing Spring - condition cleanse.
• Frost Spirit - extra damage in static fights, can be considered in group play.
• Stone Spirit - extra defense in static fights, can be considered in group play.
• "Guard!" - extra defense.
• 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.
• Quick Draw can enable an alternative playstile where you run 2 longbows and use this trait to cast Barrage 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
• 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 Impact)

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.
• 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 "Guard!" 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)