Dark and Darker Ranger Skills, Best Perks Guide

Rangers in Dark and Darker are wilderness experts, who use their knowledge of nature and their keen senses to track down and eliminate their enemies. They are skilled hunters and trappers, able to set deadly traps and ambushes. Rangers are also adept at ranged combat, using bows, crossbows, bolts and arrows to take down their targets from a distance. Also they can use spears to aid them in close quarters.

Ranger Skills

You can equip a total of 2 skills.

Name Description Cooldown
Field Ration Forage food and recover 25 HP. (3 stacks, non replenishable.) 24s
Multishot When attacking with a bow-type weapon, fire 5 arrows at a horizontal angle at the same time. Damages for the five arrows are 50%, 75%, 100%, 75%, 50%, respectively. Total of 350% damage if all arrow hit the target. 35s
Quick Fire When attacking using a bow-type weapon, Increases action speed by 50% for 8 seconds. 24s
Quickshot Hold three arrows in your shooting hand and fire them quickly in succession in a single action. 18s
True Shot Projectile’s flight speed is greatly increased for 8 seconds. In addition, physical attack power is increased by 5% 18s
Forceful Shot Hitting an enemy with a ranged attack during the 8 seconds knocks the target back. 24s
Penetrating Shot Ignores 50% of opponent’s projectile defense for the duration. 28s

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Dark and Darker Ranger Best Perks

You can equip an additional perk every 5 levels. Currently maxed out at Level 15, so a total of 4 perks can be equipped.

Name Description
Crossbow Mastery Increases physical damage bonus by 5% when using Crossbow weapons, increases reload speed by 50% and movement speed by 50% when reloading.
Enhanced Hearing Can hear enemy footstep sounds from farther away.
Kinesthesia When moving with the bowstring drawn, movement speed increases by 10%.
Nimble Hands When using a bow, change your default shooting animation so it shoots 15% faster.
Ranged Weapons Mastery Increases physical attack power by 5% when attacking with a ranged weapon.
Sharpshooter Headshot damage increases by 15% when attacking with a long-range weapon.
Spear Proficiency Spear can be used. When attacking with a spear, gain 10 physical strength.
Chase Detect recent enemy footsteps.
Trap Mastery Installation time decreases dramatically when installing trap type items.
Crippling Shot Hitting the target’s leg reduces their movement speed bonus by an additional 15% for 2 seconds.
Quick Reload Increases reload speed by 50% when reloading bow-type weapons.

Pros & Cons

Weapon of choice: Any long-ranged weapons, some swords and spears.

  • Pros
    • High ranged damage output.
    • Able to track fresh enemy footprints via the Tracking perk.
    • Able to set bear traps to lock down enemies in place.
    • Starts with a campfire, however, it’s of the worst quality.
    • Great room clearing ability without putting themselves at risk.
  • Cons
    • Bad at close quarter fights.
    • Needs to frequently reload their quiver.
    • Limited choices for melee weapons.
    • Reloading your quiver slows you down significantly.

Tips

– Excels in group fights if he has a frontline to protect him.

– Quickshot and Multishot allow you to fully replenish your quiver, you can also cancel the skill so you don’t waste arrows.

– You can hide bear traps under environmental traps, inside corpses and preferably in low lit areas.

– Use door windows to shoot at unsuspecting enemies on the other side of the door.

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