Baldur's Gate 3 Ranger Guide - All Subclasses (Hunter, Beast Master, Gloomstalker)

Beastmaster raven bad omen attack always hits and does dmg. The percentage is only for the bad omen status.

gloom ranger with dual hand crossbows is so strong. I had granny doing 90+ damage

No option for a black panther :(

Man if only the shifter race was on here I'd build a classic of mine, razorclaw marauder ranger duel wielding hand axes, and having crazy amounts of movement. Gosh the good Ole times

My current playthrough I'm doing 2 level dip Fighter to get action surge, 3 level dip in Assassin Rogue for the crit on surprised foes, and then the rest in gloomstalker ranger so that first round of combat I can just machine gun down folks with the extra attack and action surge and since I'm a sneaky type get the drop and crit for 6 attacks with one of those crits a sneak attack.

It's a bit of a slow crawl that's not gonna be fully online until level 10, but the journey is by no means difficult. Each level so far as been such a fun gain in abilities. Just no extra attack for a while which kinda sucks.

Poor colossus slayer got nerfed into the ground

Looking forward to that Cleric class guide video...hopefully it's coming soon! @fextralife!

So from what I understand, you cannot split subclass levels yeah? you couldn't take 7 levels of hunter then switch to gloomstalker for the remaining 5?

The poisoner's gloves, thorn blade, and hunter's mark can vastly improve your ranger's utility, particularly in the form of interrupting concentration and debuffing enemies. I typically prefer beast master for an additional body on the field and the utility of spiderweb and the boar's charge. I tend to have my ranger focus down a powerful enemy and use the boar or spider to keep enemies off of him. There are a half dozen poison based items that can stack particularly khaga's necklace and the poisoner's cloak which can allow you to indefinitely apply poison and gain poison damage on all weapon attacks. This offers more damage obviously but also the ability to spread status and additional chances to break concentration. strange conduit ring is an excellent item in tandem with hunter's mark as it is nearly always active on my ranger, plus it might still work when "hunt complete" is active but I'm honestly not certain of that.

Additionally a few levels of druid can offer access to low level poison based spells and spores to improve weapon damage.... though im fairly certain necro damage is the most commonly resisted type.

ranger sucks too hard at the begining of the game.

Oh the things I would do to be able to play swarm keeper in this game

6 GloomStalker + 6 Divination Wizard.

Actually 6Divination Wizard + any 6 half Caster is always good.

appreciate showing the ranger some love ! The Shadowheart companion guide was very helpful too! Excited to see when the other companion builds will drop

Thanks so much. This is literally my first instance of playing anything DnD and this is so new to me.

i love rangers. they don't get as many cool magic stuff, but I feel like them scaling off of dex really well, makes it quite easy to be quite balanced in all other stats as well

gloom ranger/thief rogue with dual hand crossbows is insanely powerful

Rolling my main with a two weapon fighting, dual-wield, hunter, with two rapiers and I am very happy with the result. Multi-classed 3 in rogue for the second bonus action, for extra damage, does wonders on single targets.

Great video! I’m excited to see the Cleric class!

I made elf boi a thief 4 ranger 3 hunter so far. Hide and hunter’s mark for big damage

I've learned so much from watching your BG3 videos. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for this great guide. I am playing a female Half Elf Ranger as my first play through. I have just gone for pure Beast Master, and mostly use a Bear as my companion. The Bears goad ability is great if you cannot get the bear within striking distance of an enemy. I am not sure which class I will try next.

name your raven Boo, go for the eyes boo!! go for the eyes!!!

Spider gets slept on,

Before you do Barbarian, I have a question. The 5e rulebook states that rage and reckless att only work with Str based attacks. In BG3 I see no such ruling. I am asking this, so I can multiclass a wild magic bar into warlock with pact of the blade. (Using Cha as attack mod). Bar 6/War 3/ Fighter 3

Is this possible? I want to call it: the Warbar!

Ranger is my all time favorite class in this game! All three subclasses are so unique and have so much versatility.

I would also wanna talk about going ranger (gloom stalker) 8 levels, fighter 2 levels and rogue 2 level
Or you can throw these around in levels - ranger (gloom stalker) 5 levels, fighter (battle master) 6 levels and rogue 1 level.
Or Gloom Stalker 3 levels, one level rogue, (and/or 4 levels with 0 rogue) with Battle Master 8 levels
Or 3 levels Gloom stalker, fighter (battle master) 6 levels, and rogue (thief) 3 levels.
Action surge is really powerful and should not be ignored as well as extra maneuvers and extra fighting style, rogue amazing with extra skill proficiency, hide/dash/disengage as bonus actions AND with extra proficiency and expertise in several skills that is not to be underestimated.

So far, I've had a lot of fun with a strength based heavy armor dueling ranger,
focus strength and wisdom with okay con, pick up longstrider, enhanced jump and good berry as 1st level spells.
On a personal note I don't think I'll ever play without longstrider unless they patch it, it's no spell slot cost +10ft movement for the whole party, which is fantastic.

The rhythm I got into was using goodberries to activate The Whispering Promise ring that gives you the effect of bless for 2 turns when you heal, GB is a bonus action in combat to eat.
Activating the bless, also activated Diadem of Arcane Synergy, which adds your wisdom to your weapon damage for 2 turns when you apply a condition on a creature.

When pumped up swing were dealing 1d8+13 damage on first swing and potentially 2d8+13 on the second, with Colossus Slayer.
I had +6 str and +4 wisdom at that point level 9 I think, got a +2 str pot in moon rise I think.
Went tiefling and had resistance to fire, cold and poison, which was helpful,
eventually got two item pieces for acid and electric resistance so the most common elemental damage types were less scary.

Going Ranger/Cleric, but need to know. Since you pick your Clerics domain and deity at Level 1, do the domains only allow certain deities or not, and what benefits do they give?????????

Sounds like i did my ranger dirty lol. I went with a human, paid no attention to skillpoints and generally speaking just... shoot.

I am very interested in a Druid video. Do we have one coming soon?

One thing I dislike about the ranger, is that a lot of NPC will run away in fear of some of your beast (Happened to me with bear and wolf). Make no sense to me that people fear your animal, but everyone is perfectly fine with Wyll imp flying around.

my astarian is a gloom stalker assassin and he's super powerful

You can also try multiclassing into a Battlemaster Fighter. His tricks are good with a bow

I want my halfling to be able to ride these companions

is this early access build or release build

I love ravens so I made a beast tamer+beast master ranger as my first character lol, a normal raven and a dire raven, lots of blindness

When you like bows and daggers so your a drow or elf forever

Druid pls

Tried rogue, wasn’t feeling it, leaning towards Ranger and this video has been a tremendous help! Always loved Rangers. Played a Ranger in Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2

I started off as Beastmaster, but got sick and tired of my wolf being left behind, stuck on ledges, behind gates, etc. As such I respecced to Hunter. As much as I'd love to keep "Lupus", the poor summon pathing just made it frustrating and unplayable.

They need to buff this class. I wish there was more of an incentive to solo level Ranger

Perfect timing too the ps5 version just came out

Can you make a guide regarding dual wielding? I feel like you need feats to make it work and then it seems really underwhelming, since you can use your offhand only by sacrificing your bonus action. And even then it doesnt really do much damage, it doesnt even come close to great weapons, is that intended?

I love running 5 Ranger and 7 Bard. You have to tweak your starting abilities to give you more charisma for the bard spells, at he expense of wisdom, but as I'm the talker more charisma is natural. Pretty much gives you everything in and out of combat, as the Ranger spells I have are mostly cast out of combat, like Longstrider or enhanced jump, or some healing spells in combat. So I don't need much wisdom. And the charisma is for the bard spells. I also love playing the instruments, it's just a cool build.

Finally!!! Thanks

I’m excited for my link role play. I’m probably gonna multi class him as fighter and ranger. Hunter and champion, but beast master with wolf is giving twilight Princess vibes and that’s my favorite Zelda game

Gloomstalker is one of my favorite DPS. You can kill high level bosses on turn 1 !!!!!

Great job on the guides! Ah.. gloomstalker. Its actually perfect for dragonborns since they frustrately dont have darkvision... yet. Larian.. WotC.. just wtf? Anyway. Gloomstalkers are perfect as Illithid exterminators, buff your brain with higher Int and strike HARD and zero mercy! Purple dragonborn for hire here 😁