The Ranger is Path of Exile's pure dexterity class, which befits her slim and graceful appearance. She is agile and fast, darting in and out of combat to deliver vicious critical strikes that often fell her enemies in a single blow. In this guide, poecurrencybuy aims to share the most popular builds about Ranger in Path Of Exile Betrayal League

 

Recommended Ranger Builds

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Quick Jump

• POE 3.5 Ranger Deadeye Starter Tornado Shot Build
• POE 3.5 Ranger Deadeye Starter Elemental Hit Build
• POE 3.5 Ranger Deadeye Lightning Scourge Arrow Build
• POE 3.5 Ranger Pathfinder Starter Blade Flurry Build
• POE 3.5 Ranger Pathfinder Starter Viper Strike Build
• POE 3.5 Ranger Pathfinder Toxic Rain + Herald Of Agony Build
• POE 3.5 Ranger Raider Starter Cyclone Build
• POE 3.5 Ranger Raider Starter Molten Strike Build

 

Ranger Deadeye Build

POE 3.5 Ranger Deadeye Starter Tornado Shot Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Low Budget Viabe, Fast, Endgame

In particular, the build is designed around using Void Shot. Void Shot is a triggered skill that fires an arrow to the targeted point, which will then explode after a short delay... it's kinda a reskinned version of the exploding shot those crossbow enemies in act 5 fire at you.

An ordinary Void Shot isn't especially impressive, it deals around the same damage as a typical unsupported skill, but since it's not in a socketed piece of gear you've no way of adding support gems to it, which makes it seem underwhelming. However, it scales extremely well on extra arrows, better than any other skill (barrage and molten strike included), because it's extremely easy to get the explosions to overlap... it's like using multi-projectile lightning arrow when the enemy is up against a wall, only you don't actually need the wall. So one added arrow is effectively 100% more damage, for the explosion at least. Or in the case of this build, 4 extra arrows = 400% more damage (6 for 600% more with dying sun up)... and that kinda amplifier is on par with about 5-6 dps support gems.

Gems Setup

Tornado Shot - Elemental Damage with Attacks - Cold Penetration - Added Cold - Hypothermia - (choice 6th)

Ice Shot - Elemental Damage with Attacks - Pierce - Added Cold - Mirage Archer - (choice 6th)

These are the main damage setups, Tshot mostly for focused damage and ice shot for clearing and mirage archer supporting dps.

For the 6th links, i use Faster Attacks for both Tshot and ice shot. There's other supports that could result in better dps, but all in all with the relatively low attack speed in the build and the plentiful dps already, i've elected to go with faster attacks to keep things smoother and allow me to attack-and-move more ably (which is important vs uber elder in particular)

As for the other setups

Cast when Damage Taken - Immortal Call - Increased Duration - Vaal Grace

Frenzy - Blink Arrow - Faster Attacks - Culling StrikeHerald of Ice - Hatred

CWDT-IC for defense, Vaal Grace-Inc duration for defense (especially in incursions), HoI and Hatred for base cold damage and HoI explosions, blink arrow for movement,

frenzy to build up charges for tougher boss fight

POB link: https://pastebin.com/9UVwRY95

 

POE 3.5 Ranger Deadeye Starter Elemental Hit Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Budget, High DPS, Endgame

Elemental Hit is an attack skill, executing a basic attack with added damage of a random element. An Elemental Hit may be performed with any weapon. Combat Focus now causes Elemental Hit to deal 50% less damage of the prevented element, including damage that gets converted from the prevented element to a new element.

Gems Setup

AoE

Elemental Hit + GMP + Mirage Archer + Combustion + WED + Fire Pen

For AoE: swap Fire Pen with Cold to Fire if you don't use Pyre.

Single Target

5L: Elemental Hit + Combustion + WED + Fire Pen + Slower Proj

6th link: Empower lvl 4 or Faster Attacks or Damage on Full Life

Frostferno 4L: Ele Hit + Combustion + WED + Fire Pen or Damage on Full Life (~12% more dps than Fire Pen if your life is full...)

Auras

• - Vaal Haste
• - Grace if you're using Queen of the Forest
• - You may use Herald of Ash in order to improve AoE clear

Other

- Orb of Storms + Power Charge on Crit + Curse on Hit + Proj Weakness vs. Bosses / Guardians / Shaper OR: gloves with Elemental Weakness on hit corruption (but only if you can manage to get this corruption on a really nice pair of gloves)

• - Blink Arrow
• - Ice Golem
• - Blood Rage
• - CWDT + IC

POB link: https://pastebin.com/Jp5rpZxD

 

POE 3.5 Ranger Deadeye Lightning Scourge Arrow Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Boss Killer, High DPS, Endgame

The build is lightning based because Lightning Damage gear mods are the highest of the 3 Elements, and also very easy to scale along with Elemental Damage. Lightning Damage can also shock enemies, therefore allowing us to deal even more damage to them. 

Pros

• + Easy and Achievable Items. No League Specific or Legacy Items are needed. All you really need are some Uniques with Life & Elemental Resistances on Rare Gear. No need to stack 10+ Abyss Jewels.
• + Adaptable. You can easily swap out some gear and skills to suit your own play style. e.g Tornado Shot or Lightning Arrow for clearing/mapping.
• + Easy Map Boss Killer. Uber Elder, Shaper and (Shaper/Elder) Guardians are cut and dry, no extra mechanics needed, just need to know their basic mechanics and you'll be fine.
• + 5.6K+ Life. With a bit of investment in gear, you can EASILY achieve a life pool above 5.6K, this build usually ends up around 5.7K to 6.1K of Life.
• + Start Build Friendly. The template of this build can be a nice starter build for a Temp League, no need to respec or level a new character just to play this build.
• + Beginner Friendly Endgame. Once you get use to the Scourge Arrow mechanics, you can just simply fire away from a safe distance and the Thorn Arrows (from the Spores) does most of the work for you.

Cons

• - Cannot do REFLECT Maps.
• - Cannot do Hall of Grandmasters. Only a few builds are dedicate to doing and farming this map. This build definately isn't one of them.
• - Leech Rate. Unlike Barrage where you fire continuously and maintain a level of DPS and Life Leech, Scourge Arrow can't to that, so you can't face tank Endgame contents.

POB Link

Build and Items: https://pastebin.com/EN125hVq

Build Template: https://pastebin.com/HWzEFzAV

 

Ranger Pathfinder Build

POE 3.5 Ranger Pathfinder Starter Blade Flurry Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Fast Speed, Cheap, High Damage

This build uses Blade Flurry as the main skill. It's still fine for clearspeed. It's not your clear 2 screens with one massive projectile skill clearspeed, but with enough attack speed you can just WB>hold for half a second and move on.

There is plenty of working room with these links. So please feel free to try moving them around, adding, and removing some of them to adapt them to your own playstyle.

Pros

• + Cheap / Budget
• + Can clear literally every map mod at all tiers
• + Fast movement speed with and without shield charge
• + Has very respectable damage
• + Does not care about any pack's life pool
• + Synergies with bex's "Pop" loot filter

Cons

• - Has to ramp up damage against bosses
• - Have to stand still periodically to do damage
• - Abyssal Cry cooldown is a clear-speed gate
• - Not a juggernaut
• - Requires more than a single button for clearing (2!)

Gems Setup

6L Body Armour (G-G-G-B-B-R) 

4-Link: Blade Flurry - Added Chaos - Lesser Poison - Void Manipulation

5-Link: Add Unbound Ailments and swap Lesser Poison for Poison

6-Link: Add Melee Physical Damage

4L Gloves (G-G-B-R)

Abyssal Cry - Increased Area of Effect - Void Manipulation - Poison

4L Boots (G-G-G-R)

Herald of Agony - Ancestral Protector - Culling Strike - Withering Touch

4L Helmet (G-R-R-R)

Herald of Purity | Cast when DT (Lvl 5) - Blood Rage (Lvl 10) - Immortal Call (Lvl 7)
If you want to self-cast Blood Rage, level it to 20.
If you want to have it automated, keep it at level 10.
> Make sure you put Blood Rage "earlier" in the socket order than Immortal Call.

3L Main-hand (B-B-*)

Blasphemy - Despair | Portal

3L Off-hand (G-R-R)

Shield Charge (Lvl 1) - Faster Attacks - Fortify

POB link: https://pastebin.com/S4zYhcYH

 

POE 3.5 Ranger Pathfinder Starter Viper Strike Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- High DPS, Cheap, Fast Speed

It's a cool Viper Strike giga damage + Herald of Agony cool friends for clearing build! No matter what, the build will be cheap because of common uniques, and crazy DPS - Up and beyond 5,000,000.000 DPS! 

Pros

• + Crazy DPS - Up and beyond 5,000,000.000 DPS! W0W!
• + Forget party play, you now have 10( TEN) friends who you can map with
• + No matter what, the build will be cheap because of common uniques
• + A lot of uniques that are very strong with this build
• + Plenty of interesting and powerful Delve crafting items to be obtained and maxxed
• + Fast as HECK and doesn't need Movement Speed
• + 15 Second Vaal Blight and Vaal Haste!
• + So many defensive layers that I need to use a spoiler
• + Fight against the evil corruption of Uber Elder with friends!

Cons

• - If you like being bored, then this build will let you down

Gems Setup

BODY

Viper Strike - Deadly Ailments - Vile Toxins - Melee Splash - Added Chaos Damage - Ancestral Call for mapping and Multistrike for bossing

Our main damage skill. If you feel that you're dying a lot or need more regen, try using multistrike for mapping.

Most important to level up is Viper Strike, then Vile Toxins & Added Chaos damage, all 3 are REALLY good at level 21.

Viper Strike Level 21 gem is better than level 20 with 20 quality since it gives you +1 range.

Added Chaos damage gives us most damage at level 21.

Vile Toxins gives you 5% more damage with hits per poison at level 21.

WEAPON 1

Vaal Blight - Herald of Purity - Ancestral Protector

We get 5 friends from this! Ancestral Protector is mainly to get 20% MORE attack speed, which is A LOT! Herald of Purity is to have more friends, more damage for us and fun poison stacks!

Vaal Blight is the biggest DPS buff you can have and it also slows enemies by 80%. I've pretty much gone as far as completely stunning T16 Guardians with it + Vaal Cold Snap.

WEAPON 2

Cast When Damage Taken Level 1 - Immortal Call level 3 - Vaal Cold Snap level 1

This is what enemies get blasted with when they attack us. Don't ever level up above these levels or your setup won't work. The main function of Immortal Call is to proc Soul of Arakaali Pantheon. Even though Vaal Skill don't work with CWDT, the Vaal skills also have a normal version attached to them which does work and the Vaal version will be able to be casted manually.

Manually casting Vaal Cold Snap gives you frenzy charges and freezes enemies - use it for bosses and strong targets!

BOOTS

Vaal Double Strike - Withering Touch - Lesser Poison - Faster Attacks

These hop into boots since once we get Increased Duration on Elder rare Boots which make it a 5 link and their duration goes to 15 seconds. The duration of these skills is super long because of our passive tree and boots.

Holds 2 stacks, both can be used at the same time, use only Vaal version of the skill. This is super good for bosses and hard encounters. It applies tons of poisons and also Withering which increase our DPS output a lot. Plus we get 4 more friends!

HELMET

Whirling Blades - Fortify - Faster Attacks - Blood Magic

Main movement skills, scales with attack speed and movement speed is irrelevant. You should use it as your main method of moving even during bosses to proc Fortify which makes you take 20% less damage from Hits. This doesn't drain any mana from us, only health.

GLOVES

Herald of Agony - Pierce - Maim or Empower LV3 / 4 - Minion Damage (+ Vile Toxins if using Embalmber's Gloves )

This is our cool friend who helps us with clearing and killing + gives us MORE poison damage! Keeping high stacks is VERY easy.

POB link: https://pastebin.com/TALiYAPn

 

POE 3.5 Ranger Pathfinder Toxic Rain + Herald Of Agony Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Decent AOE, Fast Reflect Immune

This build have great single target damage without Barrage or Elemental Hit and great clear speed with usual high Pathfinder mobility, no need to PIERCE heavily, like in CA setup. REFLECT IMMUNE!

Pros

• +decent AOE
• +great single target damage without Barrage or Elemental Hit
• +great clear speed with usual high Pathfinder mobility
• +permanent flask uptime
• +no need to PIERCE heavily, like in CA setup
• +REFLECT IMMUNE (all reflect!)
• +45-65% dodge

Cons

• -Still pretty squishy as relies mostly on acrobatics and Evasion.
• -stacking Virulence is harder with slow bow
• -111 INT required for proper gearing

Gems Setup

For Uber Lab enchant

40% Toxic Rain damage if not running 6L Herald or using Coming Calamity. 30% Reduced Herald of Agony if running 6L Herald on Belly of the Beast and everything else.
Link setup here is a balance between dot, poison and pod explosions!

• Toxic Rain 5L: Toxic Rain-Damage on Full Life-Void Manipulation-Vicious Projectiles-Mirage Archer
• Toxic Rain 6L: Toxic Rain-Damage on Full Life-Void Manipulation-Vicious Projectiles-mirage Archer-Added Chaos

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For maximum DoT stacking

Toxic Rain 6L: Toxic Rain-Void Manipulation-Vicious Projectiles-Swift Affliction-Increased Duration-Efficacy

• Herald of Agony 5L: Herald of Agony-Vicious Projectiles-Minion Damage-Withering Touch-Damage on Full Life
• Herald of Agony 6L: Herald of Agony-Vicious Projectiles-Minion Damage-Withering Touch-Damage on Full Life-Maim.

POB link: Lioneye's Glare: https://pastebin.com/AT6ADTY9

 

Ranger Raider Builds

POE 3.5 Ranger Raider Starter Cyclone Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Pure Physical, Cheap, Friendly

This build is a perfect league starter, you can do it with only about 30 chaos. Kondo's pride is a great place holder until you can afford a starforge. This build also has the capability to scale amazingly well. You can dump 100+ exalts and still see substantial results. The only two map mods the build can't do are physical reflect and no leech. 

Gems Setup

Links are in the order they appear in terms of priority. (Cyclone - Melee Phys - Maim - Brutality would be a example of a 4 link setup)

(Chest plate) Cyclone - Melee Physical - Maim - Brutality - Conc/Increased AOE - Damage on full life

Blasphemy - Vulnerability - Vaal Grace - Herald of Purity

Leap Slam - Faster Attacks - Conc effect - Fortify

(WEAPON) Ancestral Warchief Totem - Ruthless - Melee physical - Brutality - Blood lust - Damage on full life

Cast when Damage taken - Immortal call - Increased Duration - Blood Rage

POB link: https://pastebin.com/54hCaPUp

 

POE 3.5 Ranger Raider Starter Molten Strike Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Easy, Cheap, Tankly, Endgame

This build is a molten strike raider based on synergy with raider ascendancy and heavily underrated and under used cheap unique swords for lots of attack speed, defenses, perma onslaught/phasing, tons of DPS and loads of fun

This build is easily started at the beginning of league and starts out cheap and powerful with extreme end game scaling available with investment as the league goes on.

Pros

• + Cheap league starter.
• + Can clear all content. Including Uber Atziri, Shaper, Uber Elder, Hall of Grandmasters
• + Can run all map mods with small adjustments.
• + Easy minimalist playstyle.
• + Very tanky.
• + Loads of DPS from beginning to end game.
• + Variation available.
• + Can have very fast movement speed for map clear and Uber lab farming.
• + Can farm uber lab.
• + Molten Strike finally got an MTX.

Cons

• - Molten Strike finally got an MTX (potentially incoming nerf).
• - Can get expensive for optimal version.
• - Not the fastest zoom zoom clear speed around.

STARTER VERSION Skill Tree

• 30 Points
• 58 Point, 1 Ascendancy
• 80 Point, 2 Ascendancy
• 103 Point, 3 Ascendancy
• Final Tree 

POB link: https://pastebin.com/L985uSQK