How to Build a Ranger for Beginners in Baldur's Gate 3

Gith's Astral Knowledge is amazing.

Been playing Ranger with my friends and I love how much utility I bring with sneak stuff and disarming traps and lock picks. I can dish out some respectable damage also. But this is before I've been thinking of dual classing into rogue. I can't wait to see how that it going to feel. Thanks for the video!

Wild Sorcerer 1: Charisma and constitution saving throw proficiency, wild magic and tides.
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Gloom Stalker 7: Gain intelligence and wisdom saving throw proficiency with Iron Mind.
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Deep Gnome Cunning: Gain advantage on intelligence, wisdom and charisma saving throws. Advantage on stealth checks (haven't checked if it cancels heavy armour disadvantage out for neutral stealth since ranger gets heavy armour), superior darkvision, 7.5m movement.
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Transmuter's Stone: Advantage on constitution saving throws.

Infernal Gnome Legionnaire (Devilfoil Masks).

“Melee ranger”. Hot cold. 😂

What armor are you wearing?

Bro i picked ranger and got locked up 20 minutes in . No way to get through the cave w/o dying

I really like a single level of monk on hunter or beast master in order to avoid putting points into strength while still being able to wield quite a lot of non-finesse weapons with a dex modifier. I like Gloomstalker with trickery domain Cleric, too - aside from something like thief or fighter. It’s great on anything that dumps dex as well, due to the passive boost to initiative without having to take alert as a feat.

ive alredy created a ranger. and got to lvl 3. did i miss opportunity to make a gloom rogue hybrid or its not a big deal? would it make a difference if i speced into rogue now?

Ranger is a great 1 level dip too

Some of those clips are console commands. It’s disingenuous to portray those last clips as inherent bugs. The game has bugs I’m not arguing that but using manipulated gameplay doesn’t help legitimize the points you are making.

Been running as Battlemaster/Hunter with Dual Weapons, with Colossus Slayer you can do a disgusting amount of damage per turn. I also respec'd Wyll into Hunter/Thief with Dual Crossbows and Hordebreaker and that's similarly fuckin' bonkers though now that more characters have AoEs i might switch him also into Colossus Slayer but i can't overstate how helpful Hordebreaker is early on.

Beastmaster is absolutely a sleeping giant in BG3, which is never something I ever would have thought to say about that subclass at any time. So many badly neglected classes / features got so much needed love and honestly it makes one wonder why Wizards of the Coast can't just figure this crap out for the tabletop.

And sure, before tabletop alumni repeat the same line of "just fix it yourself at the table," ok sure, but I'm not the one with a studio filled with people (theoretically) being paid to shepherd the IP. It's like throwing mods in the face of people that aren't thrilled with aspects of a game they otherwise enjoy, with a few less steps.

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Currently working on a melee ranger idea I've wanted to try out. Went with Ranger Knight and chose hunter. Taking two levels fighter for Defensive fighting style and action surge. And then going with Sword Bard. Better spells, additional skill from bard, and the flourishes sound like they'd go so well with a sword and board or two weapon fighter. I figure I get defensive fighting style from fighter and then the bard and ranger can take dueling or two weapon styles. And then I can duel crossbows for ranged combat.

Hear me out... 16 dex, 16 wis, 15 con? if you get 3 feats +4 dex and resiliant for +1con and con saving throw prof for more HP and better concentration checks (for spike growth or hunters mark) later with 18dex gloves you can respec and dump dex, take all the con, wis, cha you want :)
Horde Breaker on hunter is crazy good

cleric class also give your heavy armor if u plan multiclass with cleric u can skip ranger knight

For the most part, thief is the best rouge subclass. However for this build, I have found assassin to much stronger. I also went 5 ranger, 5 rouge, 2 fighter. The action surge ability in late game either lets you nuke a boss with 5 auto crits, or nearly every (if not all) mobs.

Just want to use this post to thank you for all your videos. I am as new as it can be to this genre and am waiting a few more days to play this on the PS5.
Your content has been invaluable to me as a complete newcomer and this one in particular has cemented my first play through.
Spoiler free, but without being vague, they have helped me a great deal in making this journey much less fraught with ignorance.
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Playing as a Gloomstalker is a fun way to kill off multiple targets with Astarion in combined ambushes. Surprise is so good. If you're feeling spicy, Level 5 Gloomstalker and Level 3 Assassin gets an initial surprise attack with advantage, +3 to initiative, then Dread Ambush, 2 Sneak Attacks and an ability to hide again all with advantage. You can delete enemies before they even have an opportunity to move.

I'm going for a WH fantasy dwarf ranger, and I think gloom stalker might be most fitting for that sort of archetype. The only issue is that axes and hammers are str weapons, while ranged weapons are dex weapons, and no self-respecting dawi would use a sword....

dont forget we can respec for only 100gp at withers whiv\ch makes leveling and multiclassing with builds a lot easier, one question about thief can we use our bonus action from fast hands for another off hand attack so two off hand attacks with handcrossbows, and two with our main hand, and an extra one at the start of combat from ambush for 5?

There are two Longswords in Act 1 (one in the Underdark and one from a vendor in the Creche) that have the Finesse property. Both are +1 weapons and have some nice abilities as well. Just saying.

I take it something has come between you and CA that i have not heard about since you are not promoting their last DLC wich is now available. ( i can see you have much more view`s with B3)

Great guide I’m really enjoying your BG3 content

One miss is that land? gonme gives one of the great skills that rangers get, "speak to animals". And so you can do all the rest of the ranger skills to the teeth,

Drow gloomstalker ftw. Style, combat, lore, everything. Sexy dark lady with glowing red eyes. What's not to love??^^

I’m a rogue, ranger, fighter multi class and it’s so broken. 😂

I'm trying to figure out a good build for a Ranger/Cleric cross. I think any class can be crossed with Cleric, but I'm trying to figure out how to optimize the build. We need a healer, so I'm thinking Life Domain. What do you think?

starting pc looks like a wish aquaman and i love it

Get 5 lvls of gloom and then pick something else. There easy peasy mode

You might be better off with 8 ranger and 4 rogue because you get a feat every 4 levels in a class.

I'm making Shadowheart a lvl 5 Gloomstalker/7 Cleric. 🙂

Dark urge fits Gloomstalker nicely. Beast master? Yeah not so much 😂

Gloom stalker & rogue multi FTW

TYVM for the great content

After taking Ranger to 12, my conclusion is that the best ranger is a Fighter/Ranger/Rogue. You get weapon and armor proficiencies, superiority dice to disarm and trip at range, sneak attacks, hide/dash as an extra bonus action, and you're pretty much a lock picking, breaking & entering machine.

Would the Savage Attacker feat work well on a dual wielding dexterity Ranger? It seems like the Dual Wielding feat is mainly beneficial for Strength-based fighters.

Druid left? 😊 Shapeshiter pls. ;)

Seeing this video Ill have to play a beastmaster now :o didnt know how they changed them

2 hand weapons no matter what your spec choices and no matter your stats miss too fucking much. JFC Lae'zel missed 3 of every five fucking swings even with the legendary sword. Its terrible.

My first playthrough class!
And damn, I know nothing! After 12 resets I know nothing!
Godsend my friend.
Edit: However I'd say Human is a shout so you can at least gain a proficientcy in something useful.

would have wished to see some gameplay

Why are you wasting a spell selection on Longstrider? It lasts all day...

Get a hireling from Withers and have them cast it on all of your party before you leave camp...

Also the favorite enemy you get from level 6 ranger doesn't really add much to a Gloomstalkier.

Gloomstalker5 / Theif or Assassin 4 / Fighter 3 is the way to go.

Thief if you want to use crossbow, assassin if you want to use a bow. You take it to 4 so you can grab the feat. You can take battlemaster for their maneuvers of eldritch knight if you want a little more versatility. The friends cantrip is excellent if you are the main character.

cleric next pls

Ranger is slept on, people misunderstand it. expecting to be an archer pure class.
My Tav was a duelist character, and the gloom stalker subclass went amazing. My duelist bard isnt able to keep up with the damage, unlesss i exclusively use bards slashing floursih ranged attack on the same target.
But as melee, ranger was better.

I respecced karlach into a ranger knight. with heavy armor, polearms, and a good bow. She fits the role of damage/CC hybrid so much better. With horde breaker, she can really dispatch damage where needed.

Rangers are very strong and most people dont know how much better a build is in the ranger class.

Thank you. I've been trying to make Rangers work but didnt know how.

I'm going 1 rogue 11 ranger(beastmaster) on Minthara. The reason for going thief first is so I can add passive ability in perception and sleight of hand. She's going to replace Astarion in my first playthrough.

I'm a fan of unorthodox builds, so I chose sanctified stalker and built around sacred flame

Greetings from Germany and a huge thanks for the great guides for the classes and much more about bdg3. I am pretty new to the Universe (just heard about the classes and the races but didn‘t know them in detail) and the guides helped me so much to understand certain mechanics ❤. A huge thanks for these awsome guides. Sorry if some things are written wrong its realy difficult to write a proper text in englisch with german autocorraction.😅