List of ranger traits

This is a list of ranger traits.

Marksmanship

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"You can't outrun my arrow."

Marksmanship augments and improves ranged combat, utilizing a powerful opening strike to debilitate enemies and pick them off before they can close the distance. Signets can also be enhanced.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Opening Strike		You and your pet inflict vulnerability with your first strike when entering combat.
Major Adept	Stoneform		Use Lesser Signet of Stone when you use an elite skill. Activating a Signet grants might and fury.
Major Adept	Hunter's Gaze	1	Gain might when you strike a foe based on their health percent.
Major Adept	Clarion Bond		Cast Lesser Call of the Wild when you swap pets.
Minor Master	Alpha Focus		Your opening strikes inflict cripple on your foes.
Major Master	Wolfsong		Canine Beast abilities apply vulnerability and reveal nearby enemies. You deal additional increased strike damage against vulnerable enemies.
Major Master	Farsighted		Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.
Major Master	Moment of Clarity		Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
Minor Grandmaster	Precise Strike		Opening Strike has an increased chance to critically strike.
Major Grandmaster	Predator's Onslaught		You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.
Major Grandmaster	Remorseless		Regain opening strike whenever you gain fury. Opening strike deals more damage.
Major Grandmaster	Lead the Wind		Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Point-Blank Shot grants boons.

Skirmishing

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"Swift as a bird, bite like a serpent."

Skirmishing improves your mobility in combat, granting various bonuses when you swap weapons and encouraging quick movement. It gives additional benefits when you evade attacks and enhances your traps.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Tail Wind	9	Gain swiftness when swapping weapons in combat.
Major Adept	Sharpened Edges		You and your pet have a chance to cause bleeding on critical hits.
Major Adept	Primal Reflexes	8	When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.
Major Adept	Trapper's Expertise		Increase the duration of boons and conditions applied by traps. Offensive traps inflict cripple.
Minor Master	Furious Grip	9	Gain fury when swapping weapons in combat.
Major Master	Fang and Claw	20	Feline, avian, and drake pets gain additional precision and ferocity. Beast skills grant fury around the ranger.
Major Master	Strider's Strength	1	You and your pet gain power. Gain additional power while wielding a sword. Successfully evading an attack grants might.
Major Master	Hidden Barbs		Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.
Minor Grandmaster	Hunter's Tactics		You deal more damage and have an increased chance to critically strike while attacking from behind or the side or when striking a defiant foe.
Major Grandmaster	Quick Draw	9	When swapping weapons, gain quickness. The next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.
Major Grandmaster	Light on your Feet		Damage and condition duration are increased after dodging or using a ranger skill that evades. Short bow skills pierce and gain recharge reduction, and their attacks from behind or while flanking or against defiant foes are improved.
Major Grandmaster	Vicious Quarry	2	Fury grants ferocity and additional increased critical strike chance. When struck while below the health threshold, gain fury.

Wilderness Survival

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"In the wild...all you can rely on is yourself."

Wilderness survival offers techniques to improve your defense in order to stay alive during intense combat. It grants both offensive and defensive condition augments depending on whether you are applying conditions or receiving them.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Natural Vigor		You recover endurance more quickly.
Major Adept	Child of Earth		Create muddy terrain when you use a healing skill.
Major Adept	Oakheart Salve	10	Gain regeneration when you are inflicted with bleeding, poison, or burning. While you have regeneration, you take reduced strike damage.
Major Adept	Arachnophobia		Spider pet's Spit and devourer pet's Twin Darts additionally inflict torment. You and your pet gain expertise; spiders and devourers gain more.
Minor Master	Companion's Defense		You and your pet gain protection when you dodge roll.
Major Master	Ambidexterity		Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a torch, dagger, or mace. Torch and dagger skills recharge faster.
Major Master	Survival Instincts		Gain increased outgoing strike damage and reduced incoming strike damage. When above the health threshold, outgoing strike damage is further increased. When below the health threshold, incoming strike damage is further reduced.
Major Master	Empathic Bond		Remove conditions when you swap pets.
Minor Grandmaster	Rugged Growth		You and your pet recover health while affected by protection.
Major Grandmaster	Carnivore	0.25¼	Steal health from enemies when you or your pet disable them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Grandmaster	Wilderness Knowledge		Survival skills grant fury and remove conditions.
Major Grandmaster	Poison Master		Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

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"Nature, guide me..."

Nature magic focuses on the application of supportive and regenerative boons to yourself, your pet, and your allies. Your spirits are also enhanced, providing additional support.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Rejuvenation	20	Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
Major Adept	Bountiful Hunter		You deal increased strike damage for each boon affecting you. Your pet deals increased strike damage for each boon affecting it.
Major Adept	Wellspring		Grant regeneration to nearby allies when you use a healing skill. You and your pet gain healing power based on power.
Major Adept	Allies' Aid		Cast "Search and Rescue!" when you begin reviving an ally. Moa pets grant barrier to nearby allies with their Beast skill.
Minor Master	Fortifying Bond		When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
Major Master	Evasive Purity		Cleanse a condition when you dodge. Heal if you cleansed a condition this way.
Major Master	Spirited Arrival		Grant boons to nearby allies when swapping pets.
Major Master	Windborne Notes		Grant nearby allies regeneration when you use a warhorn skill. Heal allies when you grant them regeneration.
Minor Grandmaster	Lingering Magic		You and your pet gain increased concentration. Regeneration you apply is more effective.
Major Grandmaster	Nature's Vengeance		Spirits slam again when they finish shaking.
Major Grandmaster	Protective Ward	15	Cast Lesser "Guard!" when you swap pets.
Major Grandmaster	Invigorating Bond	20	Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.

Beastmastery

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"We strike as one."

Specializing in beast mastery enhances your overall synergy with your pet by strengthening their beast skill, improving on their abilities and granting various boons after successfully striking a foe.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Pack Alpha		Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
Major Adept	Go for the Eyes	12	Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
Major Adept	Natural Healing		Your pet recovers health each interval.
Major Adept	Resounding Timbre		Commands copy boons from yourself to your pet. Soulbeast: when merged, extend the duration of boons on yourself instead.
Minor Master	Loud Whistle		While your health is above the threshold, your pet deals increased strike damage. Your pet swap gains recharge reduction.
Major Master	Wilting Strike		Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
Major Master	Bestial Rage	0.25¼	Gain might and fury when you disable a foe.
Major Master	Honed Axes		You and your pet gain ferocity. Axe skills gain reduced recharge, and you gain additional ferocity while wielding an axe.
Minor Grandmaster	Pet's Prowess		Your pet moves faster and deals more damage on critical hits.
Major Grandmaster	Beastly Warden	20	Beast abilities taunt nearby foes. Ursine and porcine pets deal increased damage and have increased health.
Major Grandmaster	Zephyr's Speed		Cast Lesser Quickening Zephyr when you swap pets.
Major Grandmaster	Go for the Throat		When you strike an enemy with a Beast ability, cast Lesser "Sic 'Em!" on the enemy.

Druid

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"The stars, earth, and sky above will heal us."

Druids utilize the power of nature and the stars above to heal their allies, using glyph skills to channel powerful boons and protective utilities. By generating your astral force, you can channel your Celestial Avatar form.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Staff Proficiency		You can wield a staff.
Minor Adept	Celestial Being		Gain access to Glyphs. Become a celestial avatar once you gain enough astral force. Generate astral force by healing allies and damaging foes.
Major Adept	Druidic Clarity		Becoming a celestial avatar removes conditions from you and nearby allies.
Major Adept	Cultivated Synergy		Using your heal skill, heals allies around you and your pet.
Major Adept	Blood Moon	8	Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.
Minor Master	Live Vicariously	1	When you heal an ally, you are also healed.
Major Master	Celestial Shadow		Grant superspeed and stealth to nearby allies when leaving celestial avatar form.
Major Master	Verdant Etching		Glyphs grant protection to nearby allies.
Major Master	Natural Balance		Upon entering and leaving celestial avatar form, deal increased damage and gain boon duration for a brief period.
Minor Grandmaster	Natural Mender		Increase healing to other allies. Gain astral force each interval while not in celestial avatar form.
Major Grandmaster	Grace of the Land		Grant boons to allies within the radius of your Celestial Avatar skills.
Major Grandmaster	Lingering Light		While in Celestial Avatar form, your healing of others is significantly increased. Healing another player with a Celestial Avatar skill reduces the cooldown of Celestial Avatar. Cooldown can only be reduced once per outgoing heal and will occur even if the affected player is at full health.
Major Grandmaster	Eclipse		Your Celestial Avatar skills are offensively augmented. Striking enemies grants additional astral force.

Soulbeast

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"Two hearts fighting as one."

Soulbeasts gain the ability to merge with their pet, channeling their power and the ability to use their beast skills. One with your pet, you are fierce in melee-focused combat.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Dagger Proficiency		You can wield a dagger in your main hand.
Minor Adept	Elevated Bond		Gain access to Stances. Survival in the desert has enhanced your connection to your pet, granting you the ability to meld with them by entering beastmode. Traits that affect your pet may affect you differently while in beastmode.
Major Adept	Fresh Reinforcement		Entering beastmode grants you the boons affecting your pet.
Major Adept	Live Fast		Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
Major Adept	Unstoppable Union		Entering or exiting beast mode grants protection.
Minor Master	Furious Strength		You deal increased strike damage while you have fury.
Major Master	Second Skin		Conditions inflict less damage to you while you have protection.
Major Master	Essence of Speed	5	Gaining quickness increases the duration of other boons affecting you.
Major Master	Predator's Cunning		When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
Minor Grandmaster	Twice as Vicious		Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.
Major Grandmaster	Eternal Bond		Heal when you use a merged skill. You can swap pets while merged.
Major Grandmaster	Leader of the Pack		Stance skills gain increased duration on you and grant their effects to nearby allies for a reduced duration.
Major Grandmaster	Oppressive Superiority		Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Untamed

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"Unleashed, unbound—the rage of the Echovald Forest lives in us."

The Untamed share a primal bond with nature through their pet, juggling control of raw power back and forth to defeat foes—your pet uses debilitating nature-based skills to weaken enemies, then relinquishes that power to you for the final strike.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Hammer Proficiency		You can wield hammers.
Minor Adept	Unleashed Power	9	Gain access to Cantrips and Unleash. While your pet is unleashed, its skills are replaced with larger area-of-effect skills. Once per interval, Unleashed Ambush skills become available for a short period of time after you unleash.
Major Adept	Debilitating Blows	1	Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Adept	Nature's Shield		Cantrips grant barrier to you and your pet.
Major Adept	Blinding Outburst		Venomous Outburst deals more damage and applies blindness in addition to its other effects. Unleashed Ambush skills deal more damage.
Minor Master	Natural Fortitude		Gain vitality. Unleashed Ambush skills siphon health if they hit. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first. Cannot siphon the same target more than once per skill.
Major Master	Enhancing Impact	1	Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Major Master	Cleansing Unleash	10	Remove conditions when you or your pet unleash.
Major Master	Corrupting Vines		Rending Vines corrupts boons into conditions instead of removing them. Unleashed Ambush skills remove boons from enemies. Cannot affect enemies more than once per skill.
Minor Grandmaster	Vow of the Untamed		Your outgoing strike damage is increased while you are unleashed. You take reduced damage from strikes while your pet is unleashed.
Major Grandmaster	Let Loose	9	Unleashed Ambush skills grant boons to nearby allies. Refresh Unleashed Power when you swap weapons.
Major Grandmaster	Biorhythm	10	When you or your pet unleash, gain biorhythm every interval for a duration. When you reach the biorhythm stack threshold, the next time you or your pet unleash, gain both bonuses from Vow of the Untamed.
Major Grandmaster	Ferocious Symbiosis	0.5½	You and your pet grant each other increased damage and movement speed when striking enemies. When this triggers, it refreshes the duration of all stacks

Galeshot

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"I carry the wind."

Archers from the Dominion of the Winds have learned to harness the powerful squall magic of their forests to weave a bow made of pure wind. That bow in hand, the galeshot manipulates the gusts around them to gracefully maneuver the battlefield and carry their arrows.

— In-game description

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Teachings of the Tengu		Mastery of tengu wind magic allows you to conjure the Cyclone Bow at will. Using arrow-consuming skills grants Wind Force. After you reach the Wind Force threshold, you are able to use Hawkeye. Gain access to Squalls. Using Cyclone Bow skills consumes arrows. You generate arrows every interval.
Major Adept	Joy of Movement		Squalls remove movement-impairing conditions and a damaging condition.
Major Adept	Feel the Rush		Movement skills grant you swiftness and endurance.
Major Adept	Wuthering Wind		After using Bluster, your pet's next attack creates a damaging swell of wind around its target.
Minor Master	Bird of Prey		Strike damage is increased when you have swiftness or superspeed. Swiftness is more effective.
Major Master	Flock Together	20	Feathered pets have increased strike damage and health. Beast skills grant quickness around the ranger.
Major Master	Perilous Skies		Quarry's Peril is replaced by Pelt.
Major Master	Thrill of the Catch	0.25¼	Restore arrows when you or your pet disable an enemy.
Minor Grandmaster	Jetstream		Your base movement speed is increased. Hawkeye grants superspeed.
Major Grandmaster	Cloudburst		Quarry's Peril and Supersonic Arrow reset the cooldown of Bluster. When you use Bluster or Hawkeye, grant boons to nearby allies.
Major Grandmaster	Gale Force		Wind Force grants stacking increased movement speed and damage. When you use Hawkeye, convert these into a stronger bonus for a duration.
Major Grandmaster	Shrike		After a number of missile hits, release a volley of arrows at your target and gain an arrow. Missiles from this trait do not count toward its next trigger.

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