ranger?
Just use longbow and zerker gear and your good to go. Pet will be able to tank anything with ease. Make sure your swapping pets to if needed.
Some will argue or disagree but I found drakes to be by far the best for leveling. Nice damage and great health.
Allright. Bit more indepth.
First thing you might do is take a look at the utilties and weapons and find ones that look interesting.
If you choose to go with the longbow route. Then you will likely be playing power (Having power as your primary stat followed by precision)
If your using longbow its range will keep you safe in MOST of PvE content (that changes when you hit HoT but by then you should know the other weapon sets enough that you can use them to cover for the longbows weaknesses)
Next take a look at utilities and find ones that seem interesting to you. Your only lvl 19 so you don’t have to worry TOO Much but as you level further these become more important. I personally use shouts as they offer a good mix of offense and defense. (Guard Protect Me and Sic em are my go to’s with the elite and heal shout as well when you gain access to them) However other utility skills work as well. Especially if map completion is your thing. However since you will want to be mobile I really would reccomend the shouts. (Permanent Swiftness with the t1 BM shout trait resounding timbers).
Once you have that you will likely have two of your train lines decided for you. (In this case Marksmanship to enhance your damage through clarion bond and BM to get reduced cooldowns on your shouts as well as improve your pets damage)
Then you just need to pick a trait line that offers something to the other two.
In the example I picked above the best one would likely be Nature Magic. As it offers two things you will likely make use of when you level up enough to use them. Evasive Purity is an amazing trait that will help alot as your running past mobs. And Fortifying Bond will offer more damage and survivability to both you and your pet due to its synergy with shout skills.
can you help me with leveling and map roaming build? currently level 19 and doing 1-15 maps.
Trait shouts, signets, Beastmastery, and marksmanship first. Put everything into damage. Always go to TP, every 5 levels and get max damage trinkets. Use longbow, and GS or sw/Warhorn). Use we heal as one to give yourself swiftness to move fast.
You can 100-0 most foes by nailing them with LB as you run at them, then swap to Sw if they are still alive and finish them off. Most things will die within 2s of you reaching them (or before).
Have fun, ranger is an amazing leveling/world completion class.
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