I’ve been playing ranger, haven’t had much time to play so I’m still 115 ranger c3. I found it was kinda weak in the beginning too but its been better since 80~. Yeah you’re never gonna kill bosses as fast as swordy classes, my friend one shot a boss with stabbing as a hoplite and i was like WTFFF.
Uptil lvl 80 or so I used some str, had like 30 str 25 spr 15 con rest dex. After that I switched only have str from eq now its like 20, con is 30 spr is 45 and dex 120+. I have 5k+ hp 1.7k sp. I’ve been using +5 bows only coz i didnt know about the dmg reduction, but i’ve been slotting them with lvl 4 crit rate gems with gem roast, so thats +28 crit rate. Been playing solo mostly and haven’t had any trouble, getting to ranger c3 helps a bunch coz u get bounce shot for more aoe, and spiral arrow for boss dmg. With the spiral arrow crit attr and my base crit rate i crit every spiral hit. Don’t have swift step crit bonus, but my crit is pretty high anyway with the dex + weapon gems. Im still using small sp potions, those with my natural sp recov rate are enough and they only cost like 140z. For bosses i dont use a single pot, just normal sp is enough - hit steady aim, then spiral arrow, multishot, barrage. and repeat when cooldowns run out. auto attack in the mean time, only takes half my sp at the most for a boss fight.
45 spr is enough for me right now, can’t exactly spam oblique but i use it a lot. Put attributes in that and in barrage and they do decent damage. Going to hit fletcher soon will probably increase spr a bit coz those skills are expensive and have low cool downs. It will up my single target dmg, barrage and bounce are enough for AoE, but you could also get high anchoring. I’m trying out using steady aim right now, gotta lvl the attribute pretty high for it to be useful tho. And i don’t have cash to lvl attributes for so many diff skills :< so I dropped high anchoring and crit shot all together.
