In Path of Exile 2, Ranger returns with a special emphasis on speed and agility. The developers said that their goal is to make the new version of Ranger feel like Legolas, extremely mobile and responsive. This means that we can expect to see more special skills such as fast movement, high jumps, and quick evacuation of the battlefield.

As the release date of Path of Exile 2 approaches, more and more information is being revealed, including all the skills and gem systems that have been shown. For those who want to build the most powerful and effective Ranger build, it is important to understand the following details.

Ranger Overview

Ranger achieves unprecedented diversity in combat style by using a variety of arrows and shooting skills, combined with elements such as lightning, poison, fire and frost. Players can flexibly match skill combinations. For example, combining poison-based skills with plant skills can make plants stronger and have continuous damage capabilities because of absorbing poison.

In addition, PoE 2 introduces a major change to Ranger - the mount system. Players can adventure on Rhoas. When riding Rhoas, Ranger can still keep shooting without any movement penalty. What’s more exciting is that through a specific jump skill, players can jump off the back of Rhoas and immediately engage in combat.

Rhoas will also participate in the process of fighting the enemy. It will automatically look for nearby targets to attack, thus providing players with additional fire support. Therefore, players can spend some POE 2 Currency to unlock Rhoas after entering PoE 2.

Ranger Abilities

Ranger has skill shots, escape shots, and cooldown skills, which allow him to electrocute enemies using elements like lightning, and can quickly dodge by shooting arrows at the ground. Or, if you want to simplify things, you can combine the sniper skill shot with the freeze skill to cause AoE damage. In addition, there are poison, gas, and plant skills to choose from.

All PoE 2 Ranger abilities are as follows:

• Lightning Arrow - Shoots a bolt of lightning at the target.
• Frost Escape - Jump back and shoot a freezing arrow on the ground.
• Sniper - Charge and release a powerful shot, which will cause AoE damage when hitting.
• Lightning Rod - Shoots an arrow that attracts lightning to the ground
• Stormcaller Arrow - Summons lightning to attack enemies, with a high chance of causing a shock effect that causes the enemy to take 30% additional damage.
• Barrage - Strengthens the next attack, causing it to fire three times in a row
• Electrocuting rod - Slows down the movement of enemies by shocking them.
• Vine Arrow - Shoots an arrow into the air that sprouts a plant at the impact location. New vines poison and slow enemies.
• Poison Bloom Arrow - Creates a plant bulb that explodes.
• Poison Burst Arrow - A poisonous arrow that bursts on impact.
• Gas Arrow - Shoots an arrow that bursts and forms a cloud of poison gas when it hits an enemy, applying poison to the enemy.
• Plague Bearer - When using Plague Nova, store a portion of the poison damage and release it to nearby enemies.
• Rain of Arrows - Ranged and area damage skills.
• Sniper’s Mark - Marks a target, causing the next critical strike to deal additional damage and grant a frenzy charge.
• Detonating Arrow - Builds up energy before firing a flaming arrow, causing an explosion in the surrounding area when the arrow impacts at maximum energy.

Skill Support Gems

Each skill has space for three support gems, which are colored to match the corresponding color on the skill. They can be swapped or moved to other skills.

All skill support gems equipped on Ranger are as follows:

• Multiple Projectiles Support - Reduces projectile damage by 66%, but fires two additional projectiles.
• Faster Projectiles Support - Increases projectile speed by 30%.
• Chain Support - Each hit deals 50% less damage, but can chain once, and each chain effect from other sources is also increased once.
• Less Duration - The duration of skill effects is reduced by 20%.
• Shock Spread - Hit by supported skills has a 20% chance to also shock nearby enemies within a 2.5m radius.
• Neural Overload Support - Hitting an armed enemy causes a shock effect.
• Frozen Nexus Support - Increases the effect of freezing enemies by 400% and creates a frozen zone on the ground for two seconds when freezing an enemy.
• Deep Freeze Support - Increases the duration of freezes caused by supported skills by an additional 0.5 seconds.
• Pierce Support - Pierces an additional target, but deals with 30% less ricochet damage.
• Corrosion Support - Poisons applied by Supported skills also break armor, equal to 350% of the poison damage dealt.
• Exploit Weakness Support - Supported skills deal 50% more damage to enemies with fully broken armor.

Best Ranger Build

In PoE 2, Rangers have an extremely rich and diverse skill set to choose from, allowing players to build unique characters based on different combat scenarios and personal preferences. Combining plant attacks with poisonous skills is a very effective strategy.

For example, with Poison Bloom Arrows, players can fire poisonous arrows that will grow poisonous plant bulbs on the ground, causing continuous poison damage to all enemies in the surrounding area.

Another skill worth mentioning is Vine Arrows. It also works by firing an arrow into the ground, and then growing plants with special functions there. However, Vine Arrows generate entangled vines that will grab hold of enemies once they come into contact, poisoning them and slowing them down. More importantly, if you use Gas Arrows with them, they will release a gas cloud after the vines have successfully bound the target.

In addition, this weapon can also be used in team battles with other types of support skills, such as Corrosion Support, which can further weaken the enemy’s defense. Even more interesting is that by firing arrows with explosive effects into the already formed gas cloud, a violent explosion reaction can be triggered.

I believe that after reading this guide. You are now fascinated by Path of Exile 2 Ranger. Jump into the game and start building a Ranger.