Ranger Class Guide and Ascendancies

The Ranger in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) is a bow-specialist class that focuses on ranged combat. Check out more information on the Ranger's skills, recommended passives, a guide on their skill tree progression, ascendancies, the best stats to increase, builds, and how to play the Ranger!

Ranger Class Overview

Overview

The Ranger
Attribute	Dexterity
Weapon	Bows

The Ranger is a bow specialist that uses its agility along abilities to crowd-control targets or clear hoardes and damage bosses.

Ranger Skills

There are twenty-one active skills for Bow which Rangers may use. Listed below are skills that were mentioned and showcased during the livestream:

1. Lightning Arrow
2. Escape Shot
3. Poisonburst Arrow
4. Snipe
5. Lightning Rod
6. Stormcaller Arrow
7. Barrage
8. Electrocuting Rod
9. Vine Arrow
10. Posion Bloom Arrow
11. Gas Arrow
12. Plague Bearer
13. Rain of Arrows
14. Sniper's Mark

Lightning Arrow

The Lightning Arrow skill allows players to shoot an arrow that, upon impact, creates a lighting arc that bounces between nearby enemies, damaging them.

Escape Shot

The Escape Shot skill allows players to jump backward and shoot an arrow on the ground that freezes enemies in an area.

Poisonburst Arrow

The Poisonburt Arrow skill allows players to shoot an arrow that creates a cloud of poison gas upon impact, poisoning groups of enemies and damaging them over time.

Snipe

The Snipe skill allows players to charge up an arrow shot. When released at the right time, the charged arrow will land a critical strike, dealing massive damage, and produce a small explosion upon impact, damaging enemies in an area.

Lightning Rod

The Lightning Rod skill allows players to shoot an arrow into the air. When it lands, it will stick to the ground and explode, dealing damage in a small area. Additionally, when the lighting arcs come into contact with the stuck arrow, the arrow will explode again. Note that players can have multiple stuck arrows simultaneously.

Stormcaller Arrow

The Stormcaller Arrow skill allows players to shoot and attach an arrow to a single enemy. After a short duration, a lightning bolt will strike this enemy unit, and they will have a high chance of being shocked. Shocked enemies will receive 30% more damage from all sources.

Barrage

When activated, the Barrage skill increases the number of projectiles of the next attack or ability by two.

Electrocuting Rod

The Electrocuting Rod skill allows players to jump over an enemy and shoot a special arrow into them. This arrow will use any electric damage received by the enemy to fill up an electrocute gauge. Once the gauge is filled, the enemy becomes suppressed and stunned for a duration.

Vine Arrow

The Vine Arrow skill allows players to shoot a special arrow into the air. When it lands, the arrow will grow plants on the ground, tethering to nearby enemies, slowing and poisoning them.

Additionally, when these plants are poisoned further, they transfer the poison to tethered enemies, allowing players to increase the stacks of poison enemies have.

Poison Bloom Arrow

The Poison Bloom Arrow skill allows players to place multiple plant pustules on the ground. After a short duration, these plant pustules will explode, dealing damage and poisoning enemies nearby.

Additionally, further poisoning these pustules increases the damage dealt by the explosion and decreases the time it takes for these pustules to explode.

Gas Arrow

The Gas Arrow allows players to shoot an arrow that will release poison gas in a designated area. Anything within these gas clouds will be poisoned continuously. Additionally, these gas clouds can be detonated with explosive attacks, dealing massive damage to all those enemies in them.

Plague Bearer

When activated, the Plague Bearer skill will start a counter on its skill icon that increases whenever the player poisons an enemy. When the skill is activated again, the character will release a large explosion around them, whose damage scales depending on how high the counter is.

Rain of Arrows

The Rain of Arrows skill allows players to shoot multiple arrows into the sky and make them rain at a targeted area, damaging all enemies within.

Sniper's Mark

The Sniper's Mark skill allows players to mark an enemy. The next Critical Hit this enemy receives will deal extra damage and grant players a Frenzy Charge.

Ranger Ascendancies

During the early access, you'll have the choice to pick between 2 Ascendancy classes for the Ranger:

Deadeye

The Deadeye ascendancy focuses on increasing the Ranger's bow and movement capabilities. It significantly buffs her ability to move swiftly and rapidly shoot arrows with 100% accuracy, making the run-and-gun playstyle more prevalent and effective.

Notable passive skills include Endless Munitions, Gathering Winds, and Eagle Eye.

Deadeye Ascendancy Overview and Skills

Pathfinder

The Pathfinder ascendancy focuses on the Ranger's ability to poison enemies and utilize concoctions to her advantage. It allows the Ranger to throw different concoctions under various situations and increases the potency of poison skills, afflictions, and attacks.

Notable skills include different concoction nodes, Overwhelming Toxicity, and Running Assault.

Pathfinder Ascendancy Overview and Skills

Ranger Stat Priority

Dexterity Focused Class

The Ranger focuses on the dexterity attribute, allowing her to rapidly attack from a distance through various agile movements and mobility skills. Given this, her primary is the bow.

Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Related Guides

List of Classes

List of Early Access Classes

List of Upcoming Classes