So i've been toying around with diffrent specs and doing a ranger playtrough atm. However i find the ranger to be ridicilously overpowered. There where plateaus where the game was challenging as ranger but after a level or two it was back to total destruction. After level 25 or so i no longer need to think about what i am facing. Just run straight up and blast everything to pieces.
Explosive arrow is just ridiculous and crits insanely hard. I practically only use explosive followed by spliting arrow and sometimes throw in some auto attacks or something else when i feel like pressing some more buttons and messing around.
Pretty funny doing floating islands with ranged pet. Pet opens with aoe spell and i do explosive and its instant death for like 6 mobs.
For gear i use a unique (red) heavy bow that dropped from Baal which is insane, but damage isnt that big compared to my other bows. I also only use bows with straight physical damage since it stacks with way of the ranger damage boost. I always keeps ranger strenght maxed and 5/5 ranger stealth. After that i put some random points where needed.
For enchants i use the best health regen in all jewlery depending on if i have enough gems. I found it to be extremely powerful. I also respeced to full regeneration for laughs, and its virtual immortality coupled with regeneration enchants and 20% evasion.
Also since i've seen it being asked, deathblow doesnt work for ranged attacks. If you use melee and check combat log it will say something like 'deathblow hit xxx for 800 damge' but it wont proc at all if you shoot with the bow. Bow crits will say something like 'you crit xxx for 1200 damage'
(played on medium)