Why I love Hunter Rangers in Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 4

I love Hunter Rangers all because of their level 11 ability most of all I'll go through all of the levels just to show you what they get nice and quickly generally you want to pick either strength or dexterity to be your attacking stat to pick a particular type of attacking style favorite enemy I we got all of these I go with Ranger Knight so that we can become proficient with heavy armor from level one so we're proficient with all weapons and armor in the beginning of the game natural Explorer pick whatever you want again Beast Tamer it's always nice to have a familiar by your side anyway to the up process at level two we start getting some spells we got some nice spells ritual spells enhance sleep long Strider speak with animals Hunter Mark let's give ourselves that and we get to pick a fighting style I'm going to pick archery to show off an easy type of Hunter Ranger that you can build at level three we get our subass pick hunter another spell I don't know let's pick that then we get to pick Hunter's prey a Hoy hoid hord breaker can be okay at the earlier levels once we get to level 11 this basically becomes useless I generally pick Colossus Slayer so you deal an extra 1d8 damage if the target has already taken some damage giant killer if a large or bigger creature attacks you you can use a reaction to make a melee attack well I want a star in here a stagon to attack from range to attack with a bow so I don't think I would get much use out of giant killer at some point you do want to pick Sharpshooter to get a plus 10 to your damage roll a minus 5 to your attack roll but that honestly makes very little Difference by the end another spell pick P that Trace we get an extra attack at level five at level six we get to pick another one of these let's go with keep it of the veil so we can cast protection from Evil and goods and I don't know what of this resistance to poison damage at level seven we can pick another spell Spike growth defense tactics opportunity attacks against you have disadvantage perhaps if he's going to be trying to stay at range stay away from melee that could be useful or just move around steel well advantage on seven throws against being frightened can be useful comes up sometimes but not very many battles generally I would pick either escape the hord or multi-attack defense when an enemy attacks you they have minus four penalty to additional attack roles towards the end of the game some enemies do get several attacks another feat I'm going to go with athlete I love the extra jump distance and we get a plus one bonus two dexterity level 9 we get level three spells let's go with plant growth I'm not interested in the spells for Hunter Ranger if I'm honest we get another favorite enemy and another natural Explorer at level 10 Sanctified stalker efficiency and religion and can cast sacred flame he's never going to cast sacred flame and resistance to fire damage let's say also we do get hide and plane sight cam flage yourself to become invisible and gain a plus 10 bonus to stealth checks as long as you stand still that's pretty useful at level 11 we get another spell uh daylight and then actions here this is what makes Hunter Rangers great if I'm honest we get both not either but both Whirlwind attack strike out to all nearby foes making separate attack thrs against each Target so everyone within a certain range you attack with your weapon and you can do this one twice every turn and then volley same thing but with your ranged weapon I prefer volley I'll show you why later and then at level 12 one more Fe I'm going to go actually well going to go for Ability score Improvement instead of a feet get Dextero tip to 20 Max it out I have employed the fist the model for us again I would say pretty much just two items are particularly good here one is the risky ring you get an advantage on attack RS that's always going to be amazing secondly I like the dead shot cuz not only do we get improved Critical with Keen attack here we negate most of the sharp shoer penalty the wielder doubles their proficiency bonus when rolling ranged attacks with this weapon unless they have disadvantage so we're getting an extra plus4 to attack minus 5 penalty from Sharpshooter pretty much becomes minus one penalty for plus 10 damage yes please but otherwise equip your favorite ranged weapon your favorite melee weapon I've just gone for this trident here for now I have repared some others the S of boran's always going to be great isn't it actually I've also G for the floored hell desk gloves I haven't got all the items in act three yet just add an extra one4 fire damage which will help out later so I've got on the helmet of Arc accurity he's probably never going to cast any spells that requires saving throws the only one he's got really two in snaring strik and sa flame he's not going to be using them I've gone for the costic bands to give an extra two damage let's just see this action I'm going to get someone else to start the combat actions have consequences now with Stan's armor he has got the elegant studed leather armor he's got plus two bonus to initiative RS with a extra plus five from his dexterity plus seven to initiative means he's almost always going first still Watcher happens to go even earlier this turn and he doesn't do anything on his turn so why is the hunter Ranger so greatline let me quick save to show you a few things so really it's this volley you can Target in this case four enemies what I probably could have done should have done for the combat could have cast minor illusion to gather them all up in fact why don't I try and get him to throw a void bulb ah they Sav mostly slight shame but now I should be able to get five I reckon maybe not right black hole would work very well as well the El tle ability so let's go and I get to hit enemies at once and I've got that plus 10 damage from Sharpshooter I'm getting Critical Hits and I've almost killed three fists in just one turn and that's without using any consumables one of my favorite let's make sure got the B one of my favorite oils or poisons to use for some time was Dr poison why well let's have a look oh two of them put to sleep and oh never mind they passed their saving throws unfortunately the Dr poison won't work against them for two more turns but it's a way to get enemies to sleep and then with sleeping enemies you can come and I don't know do this that will make a great headline I've have done some research there is a much better consumer if you want to do lots of damage instead and that consumable is the oil of combustion it's oil cover Target emulate upon taking fire damage dealing 3 to 18 fire damage to everyone and everything nearby so the great thing here outraged there it is coated in oil of combustion the first attack won't do so much do just normal damage but they're now all covered in the oil and then I might get hit by this myself I can't remember the range essentially set up a chain reaction if I had all of these groups together I would have k killed all the fist there because all of them so what happens is each of these four exploded for 3d6 fire damage which then causes them the other ones to explode again now it doesn't go on forever but the fact is there were four enemies covered in this oil and then each of them exploded four times each which is absolutely amazing and completely decimated them and all it required was one oil of combustion aaragon here isn't a proper strength range isn't a Proper Stranger I would suggest if you're going to use something like a great sword you would pick great weapon Master instead of Sharpshooter the same idea applies he got a slightly lower chance to hit to be honest we can hit everyone around us all that damage downside to Whirlwind attack is that it is based upon where you are standing so you're actually taking up some of this circle whereas the volley you are free to put it wherever you want I do want to point out with volley it doesn't affect your allies it's safe to cast over your allies actually much more likely to affect more enemies with volley compared to Whirlwind attack you're not going to be able to get as many people within that range and also I would suggest that the the radius of the Vol circle is larger than that of the Whirlwind attack as always the elixir of bird lust is always going to be amazing give an extra action and extra two volley shots coming off Elixir viciousness is not that bad either one thing Rangers can do hide in plain sight going to hide pretty good at that so bring everyone [Music] together and then while we are hidden we're going to attack who's got the fewest hit points I think this corner here actually is a magic user you were witnessed assaulting someone I didn't get them surprised anyway let's just do this one more time our ra outrage 1 2 3 4 I will probably finish these guys off apart from the steel watch it awesome stuff and because we have the Elixir blood lust there we are perfect right let me know what you think of Hunter Rangers what would be your favorite weapon combination to use for volum or Whirlwind attack I think there's lots of good choices here thank you to all the members of my channel thank you very much for watching and hopefully I'll catch you in the next [Music] one

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Length: 9min 43sec (583 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 06 2023