Build:Ranger - Core Power 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

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on June 25, 2022 and is up to date for the March 19, 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

Axe/Axe

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Greatsword - can replace longbow for better sustained damage.
• Sword - about the same dps as axe but with mobility

Skill Variants

The suggested skills aim to create windows of burst damage through Predator's Onslaught.

Healing skill

• Healing Spring - condition cleanse.

Utility skill

• "Sic 'Em!" - can be used with offensive pets for single target burst.
• Frost Spirit - extra damage in static fights, can be considered in group play.
• "Guard!" - extra defense.
• Lightning Reflexes - alternative stun break and extra dodge.
• Muddy Terrain - excellent for enabling Predator's Onslaught.
• "Protect Me!" - stunbreak for yourself and allies, and personal barrier and protection.
• Signet of Renewal - AoE condi cleanse.
• Signet of Stone - extra toughness and a panic button.
• Stone Spirit - extra defense in static fights, can be considered in group play.

Elite skill

• Entangle - AoE immobilize.
• Spirit of Nature - AoE revive when playing in a group.

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.

Specializations

Variants

• Lead the Wind - if you are going to camp longbow, but you will do less damage.
• Primal Reflexes - when not running Frost Trap and/or more dodges are needed.
• Strider's Defense - situational quickness but you lose the extra crit chance from Spotter.
• 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

Axe
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 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

• Thanks to Opening Strike+Alpha Focus+Predator's Onslaught you will start fights with great burst damage.
• Aim to use your damage skills like Rapid Fire, Barrage, and Whirling Defense while the enemy is disabled or has its movement impaired to benefit from Predator's Onslaught.
  • The following skills are great for enabling Predator's Onslaught: Barrage, Frost Trap and Muddy Terrain.

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.
• Counterattack to block attacks.

Crowd Control

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