Ghost in the Treeline

You never see the Ranger. You feel the arrow, check your health, and realize there are two more inbound before you can even turn around. Invisible, patient, and absolutely lethal from 100 meters out.

Patient, Invisible, Lethal

The Ranger is Tarnished Crown's premier single-target predator. No special resource to manage — your only cost is arrows and positioning. You carry a hunting bow for fast shots, a crossbow for hard punches, and a compound bow for the endgame headshots that end careers. A handful of melee weapons exist for emergencies, but if you're in melee range, something has already gone wrong.

In group fights you're the sniper picking off priority targets. Solo, you're a ghost — opening from stealth with massive burst, then vanishing before anyone figures out which tree you were in.

The Predator's Toolkit

Stealth

15 seconds of full invisibility. Your first attack out of stealth deals +50% damage. The compound bow stealth headshot is one of the highest single hits in the game — and on a 30-second cooldown, you can re-enter stealth frequently. It's your opener, your escape, and your repositioning tool all at once.

Power Shot

A 2-second charge that makes your next projectile deal 3× damage. Stack it with Stealth's +50% bonus and you're looking at a single arrow that deletes a full health bar. The draw time is worth every millisecond. 20-second cooldown means it's ready for every engagement.

Eagle Eye

Tracks a player within 100 meters for 30 seconds — they literally cannot hide from you — and you deal +20% damage to them while the mark is active. Pair it with Death Mark's +25% amp and you're running a terrifying 45% damage bonus on a single target. Against bosses, this makes you the highest sustained DPS in the raid. 90-second cooldown, so you save it for the kills that matter.

Camouflage

A toggle that makes you invisible whenever you crouch. NPCs flat-out ignore you. Use it to scout monuments without pulling a single patrol, position for ganks while crouched in a bush, or just farm in peace while everyone else is dodging aggro. It's PvE god-mode disguised as a stealth ability.

Nature's Assassin

The Venom Bow passive ties the whole kit together. Every arrow you fire applies poison, bleed, and heartrate slow. Your targets don't just take damage — they panic, they bleed out, and their screen goes wobbly. It's psychological warfare via archery. Even if the first arrow doesn't kill, the DoTs finish the job while you're already lining up the next target from stealth.

Hunting Smart

Always open from Stealth. The +50% damage bonus is too good to waste on a mid-fight re-entry — line up the compound bow headshot and make that first arrow count. When taking on bosses or high-value targets, layer Death Mark and Eagle Eye together for that +45% damage stack before you start firing.

The Marksmanship tree runs 18 nodes across 5 tiers, building from basic archery enhancements into the full stealth-sniper toolkit. By the time you reach the top tier, you're the most dangerous thing on the server that isn't on anyone's radar.

The Ranger is available now on Tarnished Crown. See the full Marksmanship tree at the Ranger class page.