In Path of Exile 2, Ranger returns with its speed and agility at its core. Players can shoot on the move and choose between ranged or melee combat styles to suit their personal play preferences.

Ranger can be challenging to deal with against fast-moving groups of enemies, but the developers aim to create a Legolas-like experience that emphasizes fast movement, high jumps, and the ability to retreat quickly. We’ve come up with an optimal Ranger build based on the skills and gems we know so far.

Ranger Overview

Ranger is known for its diverse range of arrows and shooting skills, which can be combined with unique elements, such as lightning, poison, fire, and frost, as well as using plants and vines. Although the specific build is up to the player, each element and skill can be combined to powerful effect.

One of the biggest changes to Ranger in Path of Exile 2 is the introduction of the mount Rhoas. After riding Rhoas, Ranger can shoot while moving at full speed, without being affected by movement speed like traditional shooting. This ability allows Ranger to quickly shuttle around the battlefield while maintaining efficient attack output.

Even more exciting, Ranger can also leap from the back of Rhoas, this mobility allows Ranger to quickly change position or escape danger. Rhoas will participate in combat by attacking monsters. Therefore, it is recommended that you spend some Path Of Exile 2 Currency to unlock Rhoas when you enter Path of Exile 2.

Ranger Abilities

• Lightning Arrow–Fires a shot of lightning.
• Frost Escape–Leaps back and shoots a freezing arrow at the ground.
• Sniper–Charges and releases a powerful shot that causes AoE damage if it hits.
• Lightning Rod–Shoots an arrow that attracts lightning to the ground.
• Stormcaller Arrow–Lightning falls from the sky and attacks the enemy, with a high chance of shocking, and the shocked enemy receives 30% more damage.
• Barrage–Enhances your next attack to fire three times.
• Electrocuting rod-Slows enemies by shocking them.
• Vine Arrow-Fires an arrow into the air that lands after a temporary delay, causing plants to pop up at the impact location. Sprouting vines that wrap around nearby enemies, poisoning and slowing them.
• Poison Bloom Arrow-Creates an exploding plant bulb.
• Poison Burst Arrow-A poison arrow that bursts on impact.
• Gas Arrow-Fires an arrow that bursts into a cloud of poison gas upon hitting an enemy or reaching the target location, applying poison to enemies inside.
• Plague Bearer-When using Plague Nova, stores a portion of all poison damage dealt, released, and applied to all nearby enemies. This skill uses a poison counter that, once at 100%, releases poison for damage.
• Rain of Arrows-Ranged damage and range.
• Sniper’s Mark-Marks a target, causing the next critical strike to deal extra damage and grants a frenzy charge.
• Detonating Arrow-Builds up energy before firing a flaming arrow that explodes at full charge on impact, causing an explosion in the surrounding area.

Skill Support Gems

• Multiple Projectiles Support-Fires 66% less damage but fires two additional bullets.
• Faster Projectiles Support-Increases projectile velocity by 30%.
• Chain Support-Each hit deals half the damage, triggers a chain, and each additional chain source increases the duration of the effect.
• Less Duration-Skill effect duration is reduced by 20%.
• Shock Spread-Supported skills have a 20% chance to also shock enemies within 2.5 meters of hit.
• Neural Overload Support-Electrocute primed enemies on hit.
• Frozen Nexus Support-Increases freezing effects on enemies by 400%, and creates frozen ground that lasts two seconds when freezing an enemy.
• Deep Freeze Support-Freeze effects applied by enhanced skills last an additional 0.5 seconds longer.
• Pierce Support-Pierces an additional target, but deals 30% less projectile damage.
• Corrosion Support-Poisons applied by enhanced skills break armor for 3500% of the poison damage dealt.
• Exploit Weakness Support-When an enemy’s armor is completely broken, skills enhanced by this deal over 50% more damage to them.

Best Ranger Build

With so many skills to combine and choose from, the variety of builds is seemingly endless. But whether facing a boss or a large group of enemies, combining plant attacks with poisonous skills is a good choice. You can use Poison Bloom Arrows to create plant bulbs that grow from the ground and deal continuous poison damage to enemies.

Vine Arrows work similarly to Poison Bloom Arrows, both of which grow plants after being fired at the ground. However, the difference is that Vine Arrows will spawn vines that wrap around enemies, poisoning them and slowing their movement speed. These vines can also pass additional poison to the entangled enemies. When used with Gas Arrows, hitting the target will create a gas cloud.

If aimed directly at plants, it can cause continuous poison damage to enemies and provide additional damage to plants. This combination is very effective against bosses and large numbers of normal enemies. It can also be used with Corrosion Support to break the armor of stronger enemies.

In addition to the above builds, as the release date approaches, we look forward to seeing more players explore and create their own best Ranger builds.