Ranger

Rangers are warriors attuned to the ways of nature, able to call upon the power of the wild to aid them in their fights. Rangers are primarily a melee class, able to wear chain armor and wield many kinds of weapons. Rangers are scouts and hunters, able to track enemies from a great distance and engage them with deadly ranged attacks, but rangers can also fight well in a melee, using two weapons to attack their foes. Rangers have spells drawn from nature. They can increase run speed and add to an ally's armor, health or ability to attack. In a pinch, they can heal or directly damage enemies with fiery attacks. Rangers can hunt alone or in a group, though allies allow them to best use their abilities. A ranger's bow is a welcome addition to a group, adding a good deal of damage. The ranger is a great class for players who like to engage in melee battles between trips to explore the broad expanse of Norrath.

In EverQuest Legends every character combines three classes — Ranger can be your primary (locked at level 11) or one of two swappable companion classes.

Skills by level (from the game client)

Level	Skill	Cap
1	1H Blunt	250
1	1H Piercing	250
1	1H Slashing	250
1	2H Blunt	250
1	2H Piercing	250
1	2H Slashing	250
1	Abjuration	250
1	Alteration	250
1	Archery	270
1	Athletics	250
1	Channeling	200
1	Conjuration	250
1	Defense	220
1	Divination	250
1	Dual Wield	210
1	Evocation	250
1	Hand to Hand	195
1	Kick	225
1	Meditate	250
1	Offense	210
1	Strategy	250
1	Taunt	170
1	Throwing	250
1	Tracking	200
3	Forage	200
10	Disarm	255
10	Dodge	205
10	Parry	205
10	Sneak	75
15	Block	180
20	Double Attack	225
20	Riposte	155
25	Hide	75
46	Triple Attack	100

General & tradeskills (15)

1	Alcohol Tolerance	275
1	Begging	250
1	Bind Wound	275
1	Fishing	200
1	Sense Heading	200
1	Swimming	250
1	Alchemy	300
1	Baking	300
1	Blacksmithing	300
1	Brewing	300
1	Fletching	300
1	Jewelry Making	300
1	Pottery	300
1	Tailoring	300
16	Tinkering	300

Alternate Advancement (browse all)

Ranger-specific

Archetype

Stances

Balanced stance

All incoming damage is reduced by 10% and your chance to hit is increased by 10%. Endurance regen excluding out of combat bonus regen is doubled. There is no endurance cost to upkeep this stance.

💬 You probably won't use this until you get a weapon with high base damage and then you'll see the offense and striking stances drain stamina fast. This is a good stance to sit in when you need to regain stamina during a long fight.
Offensive stance

Outgoing melee damage is increased by 100% and your chance to hit is increased by 25%. Every point of bonus damage dealt consumes an equal amount of endurance, with a reduction based on your Strategy skill.
When below 25% endurance, the chance to hit bonus is reduced based on the remaining percent of endurance.
Bonus damage from critical hits and similar effects do not cost endurance.

💬 The best stance for most cases when you're in melee. The 25% bonus to hit really helps you fight higher level mobs and double damage keeps you moving through all levels.
Evasive stance

You have a 95% chance to evade all incoming attacks. Every point of damage evaded consumes 2 endurance, with a reduction based on your Strategy skill. Evasion will fail if you have insufficient endurance, or while playing dead.

💬 This is your 'oh shit!' button when fights get too heavy for offensive stance. Just watch that stamina though. Once it runs out, so does your fun.
Ranged stance

Your range attack has no minimum distance, gains a 25% accuracy bonus, and can double and triple attack. Every point of damage consumes endurance, with a reduction based on your Strategy skill.

💬 This can be really fun when you have a good ranged weapon. You can facetank things while still hitting with that big ranged damage with potential double and triple attacks. It's good at a distance too, I guess...
Recovery invocation

You regenerate mana twice as fast and spells have a 5% reduced mana cost.
Out of combat regen bonus is not affected.
While out of combat, the regeneration modifier of this invocation is active even if this invocation is not.

💬 You don't need to switch to this invocation to get the regen when you're not in combat! It's just free passive regen!
Inversion invocation

Shifts two-thirds of spell cast time into the global recovery time and 20% of the mana cost into half as much in endurance cost.

💬 The go-to for spellblade setup. You'll have less downtime if you kill enemies faster and spend more time with out of combat regen, so chain nuke them with inversion on!
Overchannel invocation

Cast spells have a -150 resist adjust plus another -15 for every non-hybrid caster class at a cost of 10% of the mana cost in endurance.

💬 Nice if you're hitting a wisp or a higher level mob that's resisting your nukes and dots.
Spellblade invocation

Treats the first spell-gem slot as a proc that consumes both mana and endurance on activation.
40% of the spell's mana cost is paid as mana and 20% as endurance.
The spell must have a reuse time less than or equal to its cast time.

💬 Put your best nuke into your first spell-gem slot. This is best when you're dual wielding with fast attack speed so you don't lose dps while casting spells. It's good to juggle this with Inversion invocation - when you've hit your procs and you know it'll be another minute before proc chance resets, or if you need to heal mid-fight, switch to inversion. This one's also good to throw on when you're in a long fight and you start running low on mana.
Divine invocation

Spending mana will heal the group member with the lowest hp percentage by that amount.
For every additional wisdom class, this will repeat with a heal for 33% of the mana spent.

💬 This one is best in parties when you're the main healer, but it's also nice to pop on when you just respawned and you need to re-cast your buffs and summon your pets, it'll help you get back into the fight faster by healing you while you gear up.