Rangers suck

[Ringlauss[LV]]

Playing with my friend who is a paladin and i notice that not only the game mostly drops items for paladins/clerics/fighters but also they hit 3X harder and are so much harder to hit as well, i just came to believe the game is talored around those kinds of playstyles and ranger in exact has been left in the darkness completely, just gonna ask if any other ranger users have had the same problem ?

[Maelmorda]

Originally posted by RinglaussLV:

Playing with my friend who is a paladin and i notice that not only the game mostly drops items for paladins/clerics/fighters but also they hit 3X harder and are so much harder to hit as well, i just came to believe the game is talored around those kinds of playstyles and ranger in exact has been left in the darkness completely, just gonna ask if any other ranger users have had the same problem ?

there are a few decent ranger items early on, specifically there is a glove you can buy fromt he goblin camp I think that increases bow damage i think? And there is the spellthief bow as well, and I know late in the game there are some great options as well. But, then again.. Rangers are meme'd on in 5e as being bad, so you might be on to something.

[nurby]

1.Ranger/hunter Build

I am playing this so far and its a fun build.

original author.
https://alcasthq.com/baldurs-gate-3-ranger-build/#character%20creation

[Gaius]

Originally posted by RinglaussLV:

Playing with my friend who is a paladin and i notice that not only the game mostly drops items for paladins/clerics/fighters but also they hit 3X harder and are so much harder to hit as well, i just came to believe the game is talored around those kinds of playstyles and ranger in exact has been left in the darkness completely, just gonna ask if any other ranger users have had the same problem ?

Rangers are pretty good, specially DEX rangers built for ranged combat.

The issue is the fact that we have 4 character slots in the party, and what to replace.

Frontliners aren't just for damage, but they give you battlefield control. Rangers do give strong damage, but they aren't frontliners, they don't have the toolkit casters have, they aren't support/buff starts like Clerics and usually aren't good party faces (not a CHA class).

[Nauct]

I do 4 thief 8 gloomstalker

[Gaius]

Originally posted by Nauct:

I do 4 thief 8 gloomstalker

My astarion in my first full playthrough is Assassin 3/ Gloomstalker 3/ Battlemaster 6. He's pretty useful, the battlemaster manouvers from range can exploit many situations when turn 1 kills aren't possible, and while I lost 2 API, at least fighter 6 gives 2.

[Fox]

I dare you to tell Rangers that they suck in real life.

[Doomvora]

Rangers can be just as hard to hit as paladins, that's an equipment problem.
Ranger damage depends on their subclass

Beast tamer - pet and arrow damage
Gloom stalker - hide sneak damage
Hunter - pew pew until you can't pew no more.

Rangers are homebrewed a bit in BG3 because they're so ♥♥♥♥ in 5e.

In BG3 their damage is moderately influenced by their arrows.

[Ringlauss[LV]]

Originally posted by A Peasant Mobster:

I made Minsk specialize on an animal companion and damn they are quite strong. If you take a bear you get a lot of HP, relatively high AC (18), AoE taunt and the most hillarious thing of all he can summon one more bear, so instead of one character you now have three (and summons in general are extremely strong in BG3).

Cant really say anything about the animal class for ranger since i havent tried it out but not really what i would enjoy, thanks for the input though

[Shells]

My ranger (GS 5 / Thief 4, DEX 20, Sharpshooter) has an AC of 22 in act 2, does 4-7 attacks (this red berserk elixir is gold) regularily killing 2-3 opponents per round with magical hand crossbows and has ~15 meters base mobility. A properly build ranger is one of the most versatile combatants and can easily dominate battles solo. Not paladin's spike damage, but not far away and way more flexible and spell slot independent.

[Brady4444]

Rangers are awesome. I have a Ranger-gloomstalker that I'm taking to level 5, then switching to fighter the rest of the way. The plan is to make a character that can fight in melee or range, but has a few extra perks for utility reasons.

I really appreciate that gloomstalkers can get darkvision, 80' when they choose that subclass. It helps if you picked a race that doesn't have darkvision. And casting jump as a ritual means I can get my party just about anywhere outside of combat.

[Miesmann - allkeyshop]

totally agree, melee rangers are phthyi.. they leave so bad taste in my mounth i feel like raging about it, they do like 2 or even 3 times less damage than fighters and if you think making ranger a summoner to raise his dps... well his bears have like 40% accurazy trought whole game meaning they will miss more often than hit enemies, the thing we learn is Dual wielding is pointless compared to 2 hand melee weapons