Divinity Original Sin 2: The Ultimate Ranger Build (2024)

This attribute increases your Initiative, allowing your Ranger to always go first in a fight. It also boosts your Critical Damage, which is key when playing a Ranger.

Bows are the primary weapon of a Ranger, and to increase your damage, you must increase your Finesse, which influences all Finesse-based weapon damage.

Your secondary skills will come from Pyrokinetic magic, which is why having decent Intelligence will help you gain maximum advantage from casting a few spells, too.

This is your primary weapon ability for bows. Every level invested in this ability ups your Ranged damage by five percent and Critical Chance by one percent.

This is your primary skill tree ability. The higher it is, the more advanced Huntsman skills you can learn. Every level also increases the high ground damage bonus by five percent.

Your secondary skill tree ability. The higher it is, the more advanced Pyrokinetic skills you can learn. Leveling it also increases your Fire-based damage by five percent.

This is optional, from the non-combat skill category. It will benefit you with a specific Huntsman skill and can be used to get your Ranger into a favorable position before the start of a major fight.

A simple necessity, having this could mean the difference between life and death early in the game. It both heals and removes some negative status effects, such as Crippled, Blinded, or Poisoned.

A powerful shot that has a chance of setting the Crippled status effect on the enemy, reducing their AP. It dishes out a whopping 120 percent damage, too.

Against groups of enemies that stick close together, Ricochet allows a Ranger to chip away at their health from afar. The Ranger will fire a bouncing shot of 90 percent damage that switches to a target within five meters.

Another great crowd control ability, which allows your Ranger to fire three arrows simultaneously. Each arrow can target a different enemy for 60 percent damage.

An absolute must-have bail-out skill, which lets your Ranger teleport to high ground or away easily, and also sets Haste on them.

A very powerful shot that can pass through multiple enemies in a single line, going even through armor.

If you chose Sneaking as one of your skills, this is a very powerful skill. A single shot that deals 115 percent damage and gains an additional 50 percent damage bonus when fired while sneaking.

Your go-to area-of-effect spell that sends down a literal storm of arrows upon enemies. Damage dealt varies per your Finesse stat.

A great supporting skill, it ups the target's Strength, Finesse, Intelligence, and Wits, and removes most mental status effects like Blinded, Terrified and Charmed.

Simply a classic RPG spell. When chucked into an enemy, it sets them on fire and creates a small three-meter explosion.

A basic fire spell that sets a single enemy aflame.

A nice defensive spell that makes nearby enemies take fire damage, useful especially when trying to keep your squishy Ranger safe in the back-line or on high ground.

A must-have for Rangers, you'll have a 33 percent chance of earning back any special arrow you shoot, which makes it easier to save your resources.

Arrows shot at enemies standing on elemental surfaces will deal damage reflective of that element. You basically get a free elemental arrow, if you think about it.

These two talents should be a given for any hero in your party. The first allows you to evade any attacks of opportunity if you get into a pinch and the second allows you to perform those attacks of opportunity yourself. Although a Ranger should always play ranged, sometimes doing so can be almost impossible, which is where these two come in handy.

One of the first nice bows you'll most likely find in Fort Joy, it can be dug up next to the entrance to the alcove through a leafy tunnel. A diggable mound will appear when you approach the area.

It grants you +1 Finesse.

Found within Mordus' house in Driftwood town.

This bow gives you +2 Finesse, +1 Necromancer, and +15 percent Life Steal

Head to the bridge leading to the cathedral in Arx to find a trader called Non.

The Deiseis Riveil bow gives you +3 Finesse, +2 Huntsman, +1 Ranged, +25 percent Cleave Damage, and has a 25 percent chance of making enemies Bleed for two turns. It gives you the Glitter Dust skill.

Head to the cathedral in Arx to find an elven trader standing before it, selling this bow.

It provides +3 Finesse, +3 Memory and always sets Weak, Floating, or Erratic Wisp on enemies.

A pair of gloves found on Fort Joy island. After defeating the Void Salamanders, speak to a squirrel nearby who will point you to the location of this hidden treasure.

These gloves grant you +1 Finesse, +10 percent Poison Resistance, and +1 Huntsman.

As you head to the Nameless Isle, you must face off against the mysterious Shadow Prince. Once you're victorious, grab his signet.

It grants you +3 Finesse, +3 Wits, and +1 Thievery.

On Reaper's Coast, head to the Black Bull tavern and speak to Papa Thrash, who sells this chest armor.

It provides +2 Finesse, +20 percent Water Resistance, +1 Ranged, +1 Sneaking, +1 Thievery, +0.25 Movement and +21 HP. 20 percent of melee damage is also reflected on enemies as Water damage. You'll gain the skill called Global Cooling when equipping it.

In Arx, cross the bridge to get to Lucian's Temple, and a trader will wait for you on the other side of the bridge, selling these boots.

They give you +3 Finesse, +2 Wits, +1 Scoundrel, +1 Sneaking, +1 Thievery, +6 Initiative, +0.5 Movement, and full immunity to some negative effects like Slowed, Crippled, and Knocked Down.

Found in Sanguinia Tell's basem*nt in Arx inside a chest.

This chest armor provides +5 Finesse, +3 Intelligence, +10 percent Fire Resistance, +10% percent Water Resistance, +1 Huntsman, +2 Scoundrel, +0.1 Movement, +176 HP, and deflects 20 percent of incoming melee damage from enemies as Water damage.

Head to the groom's house in Arx, and you'll find the helmet in a chest.

It gives you +5 Finesse, +2 Constitution, +3 Wits, +20 percent Water Resistance, +1 Huntsman, +1 Sneaking, +234 HP, and full immunity to being Terrified or Charmed.