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How to build a Ranger in dnd
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Jun 28, 2025
A brief guide to how to build a Ranger in Dungeons and Dragons. There’s only so much that you can fit into 3 minutes, so visit RPGBOT.net for more advice and full example builds. #dnd #dnd5e #2024dnd #ttrpg #characteroptimization #dungeonsanddragons #ranger
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a quick character optimization guide to
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the Dungeons and Dragons ranger the
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ranger is the quintessential explorer
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like they are a high skill high damaged
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class in a party they typically replace
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a rogue they don't quite have the
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durability of a fighter to stand on the
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front lines and tank hits but they do
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have pretty good damage output and with
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the canny feature they get expertise in
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one skill so you can be really good at
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stealth perception other things that a
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rogue would frequently be good at you
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get a little bit of druid spell casting
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you get some of the marshall
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capabilities of a fighter and some of
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the skill capabilities of a rogue so you
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fill this really like unique niche in
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the class selection playing a ranger can
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be pretty simple um in the 2024 rules
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there's basically one simple way to
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build a ranger and you focus on
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dexterity then split between
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constitution and wisdom depending on
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what you're doing with your character if
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you're building for melee you want to
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focus more on constitution so you have
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those hit points if you're focusing on
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ranged combat it's fine to put more
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resources into wisdom to support your
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spells and your skills at level one you
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want to make sure that you have 16 or 17
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in dexterity because you want to
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maximize that to 20 as quickly as
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possible look for feats that are going
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to support whatever fighting style
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you're using in terms of fighting style
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you generally want to focus on either
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archery to fight at range or two weapon
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fighting to fight in melee if you're in
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melee doing two weapon fighting you'll
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have better damage output than if you're
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fighting at range but if you're fighting
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at range you're safer and the archery
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fighting style makes your attacks very
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accurate between fighting style archery
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and high dexterity you're going to hit
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with the vast majority of your attacks 5
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expects about a 65% success chance
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you're going to have about a 75% chance
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when you're in a fight focus primarily
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on putting Hunter's Mark on a big single
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target and focus on eliminating them
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quickly moving between targets can be
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difficult with Hunter Mark so you don't
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want to move around between a bunch of
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small foes whenever you can because the
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ranger really isn't set up to handle
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crowds of enemies you have some options
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like Hail of Thorns that can help you do
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area damage but honestly they're pretty
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bad so you are at your best focusing on
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the highest priority target in any given
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encounter using weapon mastery and uh
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hunter's mark you can do quite a bit of
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damage inflict debuffs things like that
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and set yourself up to do really really
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well in combat outside of combat you are
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primarily a scout with high dexterity
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and wisdom you're going to have good
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stealth and good perception which lets
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you find threats handle traps do things
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like that backgrounds that work for the
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rogue also work really well for the
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ranger getting proficiency in thieves
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tools strongly recommended if you have
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