Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Diversity

The Ranger used to be my favorite class and I hope to play it in BG3 at full release. However, that certainly won't happen with the current LARIAN HOMEBREW which INCREDIBLY POORLY CONCEPTUALIZED and CONCEIVED. Larian Ranger is essentially an overly complex and inferior PHB Ranger. Made even worse if you fall for the many trap powers Larian pretend to buff/compensate the class with. The skills are useless unless the Ranger happens to be the leader/face of the party (which is suboptimal at the best of times). The cantrips/spell largely conflict with Hunter's Mark (very important for the damage output of a pure DPS class), and are largely made redundant on top of this by easy advantage in combat, or are worse options than melee or ranged attacks.

Unless Larian begin to take their own homebrew more seriously, perhaps even go so far as to listen to feedback, the class' relative power will drop off even more sharply than in PHB where many consider it the worst class by pretty far. If I had any say, I would suggest an adaptation of the D&D variant Rangers as outlined in Unearthed Arcana and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.