Ranger

Ranger is an archetype in Ashes of Creation.^[3]

Death from afar is the ranger's raison d'etre. A master of the bow and ranged combat, the Ranger is more than happy to let others get their hands dirty. No one else has such a keen eye in natural environments.

Ranger classes

Class	Primary	Secondary
Bowsinger	Ranger	Bard
Falconer	Ranger	Summoner
Hawkeye	Ranger	Ranger
Scion	Ranger	Mage
Scout	Ranger	Rogue
Sentinel	Ranger	Tank
Soulbow	Ranger	Cleric
Strider	Ranger	Fighter

Skills/abilities

The majority of a Ranger's skill tree will likely be ranged, but there will be options to incorporate melee aspects.^[4]

Skill	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Air Strike	Leap a great distance forward and into the air while firing three projectiles in a line along the path, each dealing area damage and inflicting snare to targets hit. Enemies already snared will become briefly rooted.^[5] The root effect is nature based.^[6]
Barrage	Fires a continual barrage of arrows at your target for 1.5 seconds, dealing 15% physical damage per arrow.^[7]
Camouflage	Grants stealth at a distance. At mid and short range the Ranger is revealed.^[8]	-	-
Headshot	Deals 200% physical damage to target enemy. Deals 50% bonus physical damage if the target is below 50% Health. Cooldown is halved if it connects with a marked target.^[9]
Imbue Ammo: Barbed	Imbues your ammunition with barbed thorns. Enemies hit by your bow attacks suffer the Bleeding status effect, dealing damage over time. Each application applies 3 seconds of duration to the target, up to a maximum of 30 seconds.^[10]
Imbue Ammo: Concussive	Imbues your ammunition with concussive force. Enemies hit by your bow attacks suffer ten stacks of the Staggered status effect, increasing Tripped duration when applied and lowering their accuracy and evasion stats per stack.^[11]
Piercing Shot	Fire a projectile that travels in a straight line, piercing through and damaging all enemies in its path.^[12]
Quick Shot	Ranged attack that applies a debuff to the target. Each additional quickshot against the same target does increasing damage but consumes one of three charges that regenerate over time.^[13]
Raining Death	Fires a dense rain of arrows 20 meters ahead, dealing high damage. Deals more damage to more distant targets.^[14]
Snipe	A powerful charged attack.^[15]
Vine Field	Summons 3 fields of grabbing vines, one at the target location every .5s for 1.5s. Targets hit are damaged for 10% physical damage and snared for 3s, reducing their movement speed by 40%. Targets that have more than lOs of snare duration are rooted. This effect can only trigger once per target.^[16]

Ranger augments

Hunts will be a Ranger school of augmentation.^[17]

Hunts do not interact with pets.^[18]

Hunts will be discussed in a future update. They are a Ranger specific mechanic, and also a school of the Ranger’s augments. They confer a number of different types of effects to your target, but the fx are particularly fun.^[17] – Steven Sharif

Ranged weapons

Pre-alpha Ranger bow modeled by Jon Arellano and concepted by Jeff Delierre.

A character may equip up to two hand weapons and also wear a ranged weapon on their back.^[19]^[20]^[21]

Characters performing ranged abilities will switch to the ranged weapon, then can switch back to the melee weapon and shield or two-handed melee weapon.^[19]^[20]
There will be a setting to determine if the ranged weapon or main/offhand is the primary weapon to use for Q or left-mouse-button basic attacks.^[19]^[20]
Rangers do not have a minimum distance requirement for using their ranged weapons.^[22] Previously rangers were intended to have a minimum distance requirement.^[23]