List of ranger skills

This is a list of core ranger skills. For additional skills available to ranger's elite specializations, see:

• List of druid skills — includes the staff, glyphs, and celestial avatar
• List of soulbeast skills — includes the dagger main-hand, stances, and beast mode
• List of untamed skills

Profession mechanic

Pets are the ranger's profession mechanic, with pet commands occupying the F1 – F4 slots above the skill bar.

• F1 locks your pet onto your current target.
• F2 activates the species-specific skill of your pet. Your pet has 3 other skills, shared among its pet family, that it will use on its own. See list of pet skills.
• F3 commands your pet back to you.
• F4 swaps your currently active pet, see pet swap.

Weapon skills

Two-handed

#	Skill			Description
Greatsword
1	Slash	0.5½		Chain. Slash your foe.
1	Slice	0.5½		Chain. Slice your foe.
1	Enduring Swing	0.75¾		Slash at your foe. This attack restores endurance if it hits.
2	Maul	0.75¾	4	Attack your foe with the force of a bear. Your pet gains an attack of opportunity.
3	Swoop	0.75¾	12	Run and leap at your foe, hitting them and nearby foes.
4	Counterattack	3	15	Block incoming attacks. If an attack is blocked, Counterattack Kick can be used.
4	Counterattack Kick	0.75¾		Kick your foe, knocking them backward.
5	Hilt Bash	0.5½	25	Daze your foe with a hilt bash. Stun them if you hit from behind, and refresh your Maul ability.
Longbow
1	Long Range Shot	0.75¾		Shoot your foe from long range. The farther the arrow flies, the more damage it does.
2	Rapid Fire	20.5½	10	Fire multiple arrows at your foe.
3	Hunter's Shot		12	Fire an arrow that grants you stealth when it hits an enemy. Your pet gains swiftness.
4	Point-Blank Shot	0.5½	15	Push back your foe with a point-blank shot. The closer they are, the farther it pushes them back.
5	Barrage	20.25¼	20	Barrage the target area with a hail of arrows that cripple.
Short bow
1	Crossfire			Fire an arrow that bleeds your target. Attacks are stronger from behind or from the side.
2	Poison Volley	0.25¼	8	Fire a spread of five poison arrows. Poison lasts longer if you are flanking or behind the target.
3	Quick Shot	0.25¼	8	Fire a quick shot in an evasive retreat. Gain swiftness. This can be used while retreating.
4	Crippling Shot		12	Fire an arrow that cripples your target. If you are flanking or behind your target, immobilize them. Your pet's next three attacks inflict bleeding.
5	Concussion Shot	0.25¼	25	Daze your foe with an arrow. Stun them if you hit from behind or from the side.

Main-hand only

#	Skill			Description
Sword
1	Slash	0.5½		Chain. Slash your foe.
1	Crippling Thrust	0.25¼		Chain. Stab your foe, crippling them for a short time.
1	Precision Swipe	0.75¾		Deliver a blow to your foe. Your pet gains might for each foe struck.
2	Monarch's Leap	0.75¾	8	Leap to your target and cripple them. Can be followed up with Serpent's Strike.
2	Serpent's Strike	1		Do an evasive roll around your target, striking and poisoning them.
3	Hornet Sting	0.5½	15	Stab your foe, then evade backward. Recharge Monarch's Leap if this attack hits.

Main- and off-hand

#	Skill			Description
Axe
1	Ricochet	0.25¼		Bounce your axe between multiple foes, gaining might for each enemy struck.
2	Splitblade	0.75¾	6	Throw a spread pattern of five whirling axes that bleeds foes.
3	Winter's Bite	0.5½	10	Throw an axe to chill the area around your foe. Your pet's next attack inflicts weakness.
4	Path of Scars	0.5½	15	Throw your axe so that it returns to you, striking foes each way.
5	Whirling Defense	30.25¼	25	Spin your axes around you to attack nearby foes.

Off-hand only

#	Skill			Description
Dagger
4	Stalker's Strike	0.5½	10	Stab and poison your foe while evading attacks. This attack deals increased damage and poison against movement-impaired foes.
5	Crippling Talon	0.5½	1	Throw a dagger to bleed and cripple your foe.
Torch
4	Throw Torch	0.5½	15	Throw your torch and burn your foes in an area.
5	Bonfire	0.5½	25	Set a fire around you, damaging and burning foes.
Warhorn
4	Hunter's Call	1	16	Call hawks to swarm your foe.
5	Call of the Wild	0.25¼	24	Daze and weaken nearby enemies. Grant fury, might, and swiftness to yourself and nearby allies.

Aquatic

#	Skill			Description
Harpoon gun
1	Splinter Shot	0.25¼		Shoot a spear that splinters around your target, striking and bleeding multiple foes.
2	Coral Shot	0.25¼	10	Shoot a spear that collects sharp coral as it travels, causing more bleeding the farther it goes and cripples.
3	Feeding Frenzy	1	10	Drive piranhas into a feeding frenzy around your foe. Apply fury to your pet.
4	Mercy Shot	0.25¼	12	Fire a shot that strikes for more damage the less health your target has.
5	Ink Blast	0.5½	18	Retreat backward, leaving a blinding trail in your wake.
Spear
1	Stab	0.5½		Chain. Stab your foe.
1	Jab	0.75¾		Chain. Jab your foe.
1	Toxic Strike	0.5½		Deliver a final poisonous attack.
2	Swirling Strike	0.75¾	8	Attack while reflecting projectiles.
3	Surging Maw	10.75¾	10	Dart at your foe, inflicting more bleeding based on the amount of time spent charging.
4	Counterstrike	10.5½	20	Prepare to throw your spear while blocking. If you block, push back your attacker with a kick.
4	Counter Throw	0.5½		Throw your spear at foes.
5	Man O' War	10.25¼	4	Strike your foe multiple times, then deliver a final immobilizing attack.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
"We Heal As One!"		1	20	Command. Heal yourself and your pet. You each gain copies of the other's boons.
Water Spirit		1	20	Spirit. Summon a water spirit that regenerates allies. Spirits lose health when granting boons to allies and die if the summoner moves out of range.
Aqua Surge		0.25¼	20	The water spirit teleports to your location and then heals you and nearby allies.
Troll Unguent		0.75¾	20	Survival. You and your pet regenerate health over time.
Healing Spring		0.5½	30	Trap. Heals you and your pet. Place a trap that grants regeneration and cures conditions on allies.

Utility

Skill				Description
Command
"Guard!"			30	Command. Order your pet to guard nearby allies; your pet takes damage on behalf of those allies. Gain might when your pet receives damage.
"Protect Me!"			30	Command. Gain protection and barrier while breaking allies out of stuns.
"Search and Rescue!"			60	Command. Your pet teleports a downed ally within range of you and begins reviving them. Grant regeneration to nearby allies.
"Sic 'Em!"			35	Command. Your pet rushes at your foe, revealing them and dealing increased damage.
Signet
Signet of Renewal			35	Signet Passive: You and your pet recover health. Signet Active: Grant resistance and resolution to your pet; it pulls conditions from nearby allies to itself.
Signet of Stone			80	Signet Passive: Improves toughness for you and your pet. Signet Active: You and your pet take no damage from attacks. You and your pet are still susceptible to conditions and control effects.
Signet of the Hunt			20	Signet Passive: Grants 25% increased movement speed to you and your pet. Signet Active: Attacks from you and your pet become unblockable, and you both gain superspeed.
Signet of the Wild		0.75¾	30	Signet Passive: Increases the ferocity of you and your pet. Signet Active: Tap into the land to root foes around you.
Spirit
Frost Spirit		1	20	Spirit. Summon a frost spirit that grants might to nearby allies. Spirits lose health when granting boons to allies and die if the summoner moves out of range.
Cold Snap		0.25¼	20	Your frost spirit teleports to your location and releases a freezing blast of arctic air to chill nearby foes.
Stone Spirit		1	20	Spirit. Summon a stone spirit that grants protection to nearby allies. Spirits lose health when granting boons to allies and die if the summoner moves out of range.
Quicksand		0.25¼	20	Your stone spirit teleports to your location and softens the earth around it, immobilizing and crippling foes.
Storm Spirit		1	20	Spirit. Summon a storm spirit that grants fury to nearby allies. Spirits lose health when granting boons to allies, and they die if the summoner moves out of range.
Call Lightning		0.25¼	20	Your storm spirit teleports to your location and generates a powerful blast of electricity.
Sun Spirit		1	20	Spirit. Summon a sun spirit that grants vigor to allies. Spirits lose health when enhancing allies and will die if the summoner moves out of range.
Solar Flare		0.25¼	20	Your sun spirit teleports to your location and releases the brilliance of the sun on nearby foes.
Survival
Lightning Reflexes			24	Survival. Evade back with a crack of lightning, dealing damage and gaining vigor.
Muddy Terrain		0.75¾	20	Survival. Use mud to cripple, slow, and immobilize foes.
Quickening Zephyr			35	Survival. You and your pet gain quickness and superspeed.
Sharpening Stone			30	Survival. Bleed foes with your next few attacks.
Trap
Flame Trap		0.5½	15	Trap. Set a trap that burns foes.
Frost Trap		0.5½	30	Trap. Set a trap that chills foes.
Spike Trap		0.5½	45	Trap. Set a trap that bleeds and launches foes.
Viper's Nest		0.5½	20	Trap. Set a trap that pulses poison on foes when triggered.

Elite

Skill				Description
"Strength of the Pack!"		1	75	Command. Rampage with your pet, gaining stability, fury, and swiftness. You and your pet also grant might to each other when you attack.
Spirit of Nature		10.5½	120	Spirit. Summon a spirit that heals allies. Command the spirit to revive and cure conditions on nearby allies. Spirits lose health when their passive activates and die if the summoner moves out of range.
Nature's Renewal		0.25¼	40	Your spirit of nature teleports to your location and then sacrifices its health to revive and cure the conditions of nearby downed allies. Health is only sacrificed if an ally is revived.
Entangle		0.75¾	60	Survival. Entangle foes around you with vines. Entangled foes bleed and are immobilized until the vines are destroyed.

Downed and drowning skills

#	Skill			Description
Downed
1	Throw Dirt	0.25¼		Throw a handful of dirt to bleed your foe.
2	Thunderclap		10	Damages your target and dazes foes around that target.
3	Lick Wounds	0.5½	20	Revive your pet at your location to revive you.
4	Bandage	490.25¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.
Drowning
1	Throw Knife			Throw a knife at your foe.
2	Thunderclap		10	Damages your target and dazes foes around that target.
3	Lick Wounds	0.5½	20	Revive your pet at your location to revive you.
4	Bandage	490.25¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.

Bundle

There are skills unique to the ranger profession that will appear when they are holding certain bundles.

•   Charm Rabbit (Rabbit)

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