My stats on L14, nightmare difficulty, just before entering Maxos temple.

Stats: (base) - (after items)

VIT: 1-10 (I pumped this to 40 base at level 15)
SPIRIT: 1
STR: 1
DEX: 4-13
INT: 3

Skills: (base) - (after items)

Evade: 1
Lockpick: 4
Mana Efficiency: 3
Poison Arrow: 1
Regenerate 0-1
Split Arrow: 1-2
Way of the Ranger 0-2

Bow dmg: 28-54 +(6-13) /Wild Dwellers bow with two other set pieces.

Are you moving around in combat? With ranger early on, it's very important you don't just stand around like a duck while enemy mages/rangers pummel you. You can actually avoid like 90% of all enemy attacks by moving when your enemy shoots at you, and once you've dodged the enemy attack, fire yourself... before dodging again. Later on you can just press 1-2 and everything on the screen dies.

Wild Dwellers set has the best low level bow, so getting three pieces of that set before Maxos temple is a good idea. You can find the locations in Lancet's FAQ that's already posted. If you're already on sentinel island however, mindread Vacca to get Mr.Shooty (you need a good dmg enchantment for this to rock though).

You could also try rolling for jewelry with explosive arrow or way of the ranger from the killer bunny. It spawns when you kill enough rabbits. Just quick save when it has a sliver of health left, and quickload until you get something useful. You can easily kill it with a ranger even at level 10, just jump on a big rock or a tree (whatever) so it can't get to you, then just shoot at it for five minutes while it stands around helplessly.

Also, if you get a weapon with +75 physical damage enchantment from the bunny, pick that one. Go de-enchant it, so you get the recipe, and then enchant your weapon with +75 damage (Moonstone x3, Black Rock x1, Red Ore x3). When you have +75 dmg at that point in the game, it doesn't even matter what bow you have.

Originally Posted by HBkillingspree
btw im on sent. island and my 2hand back up weapon is doing way more damage than my bow and im full ranger, what am i doing wrong?


Melee weapons do more damage than bows in this game (mostly). On the other hand, rangers get +588% BASE damage boost with L15 way of the ranger, and then the said damage get's multiplied by 2.6 when you do a critical hit, which leads to insane damage.