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You should also add these quick tips. If you have a mage (Octavia) it is worthwhile to put mage armor on the dog as it already has a high AC and mage armor as well as cat's grace on the dog can make it a good front line tank.
Would love to see a build guide for the specialty ranger classes as well. I am particularly interested in the lightning and fire classes and how best to use them. Have tried both out briefly and the lightning one seems to specialize in long range and the fire one is more close encounter. I thought the fire one would make a great duel wielder but idk to be honest..
The Ranger animal companion is actually 3 levels behind the Druid companion and you'll need the boon companion feat to bring it to the highest level. And Ekundayo is probably the easiest companion to build since he has such good stats and he'll do well even if you let him auto level.
Mild spoilers here: For terrain: First World will come in handy starting mid-way through the game. Beyond that, Underground should work for the dungeons of the game. Rest are a crap-shoot, depending on which region you're in at the time. Favored Enemy: Human in the early game is good, but drops off in usefulness, while Fey is good in mid-to-late-game. Giant Humanoids and Magical Beasts are quite common throughout the game, as well as Undead.
@DoctorPringles: That! Humanoids is not really worth it, as they are as single targets not the major threat in this game, anyways: They are just the best organized, and thus the most differenciated. Undead is best chosen early for Ekun.
Do it on a level you get a free FEAT and you can get the Feat that adds another +1d6 sneak attack bonus. What would you lose as a level 20 Ranger though?
@Mutant73: A likely rather negligible save-or-sorry insta-kill ability, against Favored Enemies, one level of Favored Enemy, one BAB, and probably a level for your companion. The unmodifiable 2d6 of Rogue is probably overall not totally worth it on him, though. Late game, this might be 10 to very optimistically 15% more damage, and only on sneak attacks, on him, which comes at a price in delayed Ranger progression. Fighters, e.g., benefit more; - Ekun`s output is already insane.
I thought the feat 'Hammer the Gap' is melee only?! Clustered shots is basically hammer the gap for ranged which would make hammer the gap redundant anyways
Clustered Shots adds up all ranged damage before taking damage reduction into account, whilst Hammer the Gap adds bonus damage for each additional hit (doesn't specify melee) against the same target. They do two different things.
Hrm, all these builds seem very simple and not worthy being made into guides. The difficulty of builds in this game, and what seems to be a real need for a sense of expertise, comes from the multi-classing.
they are beginner builds. Main reason is that the game is still horribly broken&buggy so they decided it isn't worth making any more time investment on the advanced builds atm
@@Songfugel Salty, yea its early days still and some builds certainly run afoul of bugs, some are likely a bit OP because of bugs too and may be in danger of nerfing once those get fixed. However the pure bow ranger is one build that hardly needs a guide, and Ekun especially comes really well built out of the box, not much to improve upon there, he even has great favored enemy choices for when you get him. (A player might minmax a bit more by dumping int/cha lower and getting a different pet maybe, as Smilodon is the most OP one but at least the dog comes with trip ability)
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You should also add these quick tips. If you have a mage (Octavia) it is worthwhile to put mage armor on the dog as it already has a high AC and mage armor as well as cat's grace on the dog can make it a good front line tank.
Please keep them coming, double your efforts.
Would love to see a build guide for the specialty ranger classes as well. I am particularly interested in the lightning and fire classes and how best to use them. Have tried both out briefly and the lightning one seems to specialize in long range and the fire one is more close encounter. I thought the fire one would make a great duel wielder but idk to be honest..
The Ranger animal companion is actually 3 levels behind the Druid companion and you'll need the boon companion feat to bring it to the highest level.
And Ekundayo is probably the easiest companion to build since he has such good stats and he'll do well even if you let him auto level.
Ekundayo comes by default with the boon companion feat
Two questions for this build. What are the best choices for favoured enemy and favoured terrain besides obviously forest for this game?
Mild spoilers here:
For terrain: First World will come in handy starting mid-way through the game. Beyond that, Underground should work for the dungeons of the game. Rest are a crap-shoot, depending on which region you're in at the time.
Favored Enemy: Human in the early game is good, but drops off in usefulness, while Fey is good in mid-to-late-game. Giant Humanoids and Magical Beasts are quite common throughout the game, as well as Undead.
@DoctorPringles: That! Humanoids is not really worth it, as they are as single targets not the major threat in this game, anyways: They are just the best organized, and thus the most differenciated. Undead is best chosen early for Ekun.
Whats the button to check the animal companions stats ? ? Never saw it before ?
I followed the guide on the website when do I get the dog companion because I don't have at level one do I get him later.
Enlarge only works in melee, use hurricane bow instead
i put one point into rogue too so i could get a sneak attack damage bonus
Do it on a level you get a free FEAT and you can get the Feat that adds another +1d6 sneak attack bonus. What would you lose as a level 20 Ranger though?
i think just that master hunter ability that has a chance to insta kill something
in the long run personally i think the extra sneak dmg would out weigh it
@Mutant73: A likely rather negligible save-or-sorry insta-kill ability, against Favored Enemies, one level of Favored Enemy, one BAB, and probably a level for your companion. The unmodifiable 2d6 of Rogue is probably overall not totally worth it on him, though. Late game, this might be 10 to very optimistically 15% more damage, and only on sneak attacks, on him, which comes at a price in delayed Ranger progression. Fighters, e.g., benefit more; - Ekun`s output is already insane.
that is fair....i suppose it would make a massive diff depending on team comp....as mine is i always have sneak attacks going from flanking
I thought the feat 'Hammer the Gap' is melee only?! Clustered shots is basically hammer the gap for ranged which would make hammer the gap redundant anyways
Clustered Shots adds up all ranged damage before taking damage reduction into account, whilst Hammer the Gap adds bonus damage for each additional hit (doesn't specify melee) against the same target. They do two different things.
tfw he left me because i made certain decisions xD
Hrm, all these builds seem very simple and not worthy being made into guides. The difficulty of builds in this game, and what seems to be a real need for a sense of expertise, comes from the multi-classing.
they are beginner builds. Main reason is that the game is still horribly broken&buggy so they decided it isn't worth making any more time investment on the advanced builds atm
@@Songfugel Salty, yea its early days still and some builds certainly run afoul of bugs, some are likely a bit OP because of bugs too and may be in danger of nerfing once those get fixed.
However the pure bow ranger is one build that hardly needs a guide, and Ekun especially comes really well built out of the box, not much to improve upon there, he even has great favored enemy choices for when you get him. (A player might minmax a bit more by dumping int/cha lower and getting a different pet maybe, as Smilodon is the most OP one but at least the dog comes with trip ability)