The Ranger of Dark and Darker can be a difficult class to learn; Less eager to engage in one-on-one combat and finding themselves a little easier to kill than other classes, learning the Ranger is one of patience and precision. Relying less on trickery and cunning than the rogue, the Ranger must still be acutely aware of their surroundings in order to exit dungeons time and time again. It’s a little easier, mind you, if you have a detailed guide to follow – here’s our Ranger build guide for Dark and Darker.
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Please note that this guide is updated for the current Dark and Darker alpha playtest.
Best Ranger Perks in Dark and Darker
Even if you have a sword as a secondary weapon to lean on, most ranger work will be done with a bow. So we’re going to want to load up on bow and projectile focused perks to maximize damage. We recommend the following perks, in order of importance or unlock level.
- best shooter
- Sharpshooter increases headshot damage beyond the standard buff by an additional 15%. However, if you are using a crossbow, your initial advantage should be crossbow proficiency for the 50% increase in reload speed.
- nimble hands
- This increases the speed of your archery animation by 15%, allowing you to send more arrows down. Hopefully this will kill your target before they can close the distance and attack you in melee.
- kinesthesia
- Kinesthesia works best if using a bow, providing a 10% movement speed buff while chair line is taught; however, if you are using a crossbow, use this advantage slot to best shooter. This can be removed if you manage to stack high enough movement speed buffs with high end gear, and cheat expert is a great alternative if you like setting up ambushes.
- Ranged Weapon Expert
- RWE grants a 5% increase in attack power when using ranged weapons. This can give you a bit more power, but feel free to experiment with this slot if you find you’re dealing enough damage. spear competition useful if you can’t find a sword or rapier, but cheat expert it’s downright fun.
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The best ranger team in Dark and Darker
As we noted, going up against most other players will be a quick death for the Ranger, just like the Rogue. Even with high-end armor and weapons, namely purples and up, trying to fight melee can result in a quick death. With equipment, focus on Agility there Ingenuity – Agility will increase your movement speed and attack animations, while Resourcefulness will increase interaction with the world, from gates to campfires.
Your first item to focus on, and it should probably be your most expensive gear, is your ranged weapon. The Ranger doesn’t have many perks or abilities that focus on anything other than ranged weapons, so splurge appropriately to ensure you’re maximizing your ranged damage. Any bow with 25 or more damage should pay the bills here, but avoid the windlass crossbow in its current form: Reloading will force your perspective down, causing you to lose all situational awareness, no matter how fast you can reload.
Once you’ve ordered your primary weapon, grab a secondary weapon as well. Rapiers and Armed Swords are easy options, but a Ranger will need a weapon to get through if the fight gets too close for bows. Feel free to skimp on large expenditures on armor that don’t increase your needed attributes – your playstyle should focus on keeping anything that might kill you out of melee range.
Best Ranger Abilities for Dark and Darker
Once you feel comfortable with the Ranger class, two things become necessary. Survival and burst DPS. For this, we recommend both skills. rapid fire there land ration. Field Ration gives players three heals for 25 HP, with a short cooldown between uses. rapid fire lets you fire three rapid-fire arrows. some may prefer Multiple shotbut the horizontal spread between the arrows means you’ll need to be at close range to use i effectively, and at this point you’re already taking some serious damage.
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