The Ranger can ascend into a Deadeye or Pathfinder Path in Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out more information on the Ranger's ascendancies, class guide, skills, and how to play Ranger!

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Ranger Class and Ascendancies	All Ranger Builds

Ranger Ascendancies

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

Deadeye

Pathfinder

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

Deadeye or Pathfinder?

The Deadeye is the Meta Pick

As of patch 0.1.0f, the Deadeye ascendancy is the meta pick and holds a significant player base over the Pathfinder. The Deadeye can provide massive mobility, an additional projectile to bow attacks, and overall better defenses with Wind Ward. Having these bonuses makes it easier to build than the Pathfinder.

While the Deadeye is a meta recommendation due to being a better foundation for conventional builds, the Pathfinder is still a strong class as it has access to the buffed Concoction skills in patch 0.1.0e.

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.

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 weapon is the bow.

Ranger Skills

All Bow Skills

Bows are the default weapon for Rangers in PoE 2, however you can still choose any weapon to obtain any skill for your Ranger. There are twenty-one active skills for Bow which Rangers may use. Listed below are skills that are available during the Early Access:

Tier	Skills
1	Poisonburst Arrow			Escape Shot			Lightning Arrow			Lightning Rod
3	Snipe				Vine Arrow				Stormcaller Arrow
5	Barrage			Toxic Growth			Freezing Salvo			Electrocuting Arrow
7	Sniper's Mark				Gas Arrow				Voltaic Mark
9	Rain of Arrows				Detonating Arrow				Ice Shot
11	Tornado Shot						Shockchain Arrow
13	Spiral Volley						Magnetic Salvo

List of All Gems

All Ranger Persistent Skills

Rangers have 9 Persistent skills each of which grant passive buffs that can help any build regardless of class.

Tier	Skills
4	Herald of Thunder				Plague Bearer				Wind Dancer
8	Combat Frenzy						Herald of Plague
14	Attrition						Alchemist's Boon

List of Spirit Gems

Recommended Skill

Skill	Effect
Sniper's Mark	Marks a target. The next Critical Hit the target receives consumes the Mark to deal extra damage and grant you a Frenzy Charge.
Wind Dancer	Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.

While Bow Skills does not have an active skill that is a staple for general builds, the best skill for builds that crit reliably is the Sniper's Mark due to its ability to provide Frenzy Charges and skyrocket critical hit damage.

Additionally, the Ranger possesses a strong Spirit Gem, the Wind Dancer. This skill is a staple for builds that use Evasion and/or Energy Shields for their primary defensive stat. When paired with Ghost Dance and Grim Feast, it can reliably replenish Energy Shields and act as a way of peeling enemies away from you.

How to Play the Ranger

Tips for Playing the Ranger
Invest into Mana Regeneration Quivers are Essential to Builds Evasion is the Best Early Defence Best Paired With Lightning, Ice, and Poison

Invest into Mana Regeneration

As Rangers rely on attacking fast and with their bow skills, they often run into mana-consumption problems. It is a general tip to use equipment with modifiers to Maximum Mana and Mana Regeneration. Furthermore, your Mana Flask should have a modifier to regenerate chargers per second!

Quivers are Essential to Builds

While they may seem minimal at first, Quivers are an essential factor when determining a build's damage as there are percentage additions through the Master Fletcher passive and the Widowhail Crude Bow that massively scale up the modifiers slotted in the Quivers.

With these equipped alongside a strong Quiver, you will gain a significant boost to your damage output! The best quivers currently are the Primed and Visceral Quivers!

List of Quivers

Evasion is the Best Early Defence

Since Rangers emphasize dexterity gain, investing in Maximum Life and Evasion for damage mitigation is the optimal path during the early game.

After completing your ascension, you can transition into a pure Energy Shield build with Chaos Inoculation or full Evasion with Acrobatics depending on your preference!

How to Increase Defense

Best Paired With Lightning, Ice, and Poison

Rangers generally revolve around using Lightning, Ice, and Poison skills given that bow skills provide a clear path for these elements. For the most part, you have the option of choosing between Lightning or Poison during the early game, where Lightning is often better with early game progression!

However, the Pathfinder ascendancy gives the Ranger various elemental options with the Brew Concoction. This ascendancy skill allows you to diversify your builds, allowing the player to even spec into Bleed or Fire!

List of Ascendancy Skills

Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Related Guides

List of Classes

List of Early Access Classes

Class	Ascendancy Classes
Mercenary	・Witchhunter ・Gemling Legionnaire
Monk	・Invoker ・Acolyte of Chayula
Ranger	・Deadeye ・Pathfinder
Sorceress	・Stormweaver ・Chronomancer
Warrior	・Warbringer ・Titan
Witch	・Infernalist ・Blood Mage

List of Upcoming Classes

Druid	Huntress
Templar	Shadow
Duelist	Marauder