[Music] I firmly believe that the Ranger class, using this new build, is by far the strongest class for getting through the

campaign and into the endgame. This is because it has insane boss-killing speed, quick and easy mob clearing, and sustain

that will make clearing maps fast and easy.  It has enough survivability to even survive the lag from the Path of

Exile servers. In this guide, I will not only teach you step-by-step how to level and get through the campaign, but I'll

also show you this extremely strong build that comes online as soon as you hit level 20. There's even this amazing

technique I'll teach you that will give us infinite sustain, so we never have to go back to town for potions or run out of

potions during long boss fights, which will make the game so much easier. The best part about this build is that not

only does it come online super early, but it will also carry you all the way to the endgame, doing Tier 10 maps with this

basic starter gear from the campaign. To prove that point, every single gameplay footage that you see in this

video was recorded using my own personal starter gear that I had at the end of the campaign to completely destroy the

endgame. This gear was 15 to 20 levels lower than me; that's just how

strong you can expect to be with this build I'm about to show you. I'm Cir from Goblin Inc, and this is the Galv Viic

Ranger leveling guide. So, starting off right at level one, we are going to be leveling up using the Lightning Arrow and

Lightning Rod combo. This combo works by first placing down a Lightning Rod, and then whenever we fire a Lightning Arrow

into an enemy, it will chain off of the enemy and activate all of our active rods. This means the more rods we

Currently, we have the more damage we do, so because of that, the support gems we've chosen are: Scourge Arrow on our

lightning rods alongside Lightning Infusion. So these lightning rods are responsible for basically all of our damage, so we want to pick up the highest

damage support gems that we can. And starting at level one, Lightning Infusion is the best that we've got, and

Scatter Shot gives us three lightning rods per cast. So, despite this lowering our damage, this is a very high damage

increase. So this is actually the first gem that you want to craft. And on our Lightning Arrow, we've chosen Chain, so

we're going to be chaining even more times for more Rot activations, and Faster Attacks, which is going to let us

fire out these lightning arrows faster for more Rot triggers. We're going to be using this until level three, where we

can add Orb of Storms into the mix. Which Orb of Storms states that every single time that you cast a lightning ability

next to it, it will chain three lightning bolts out, and these lightning bolts can trigger our rods. So this is even more

rod triggers. This is the combo that we're going to be using up until we hit about level 20, when we unlock tier five

skill gems. And when we do, we're actually going to replace this Lightning Arrow with Galvanic Cascade, using the

new weapon swap mechanic to do this. We first put our bow in slot one and we put our crossbow in slot two, and it will

automatically switch between the two weapons, giving us access to both bow and crossbow skills at the same time. This

combo works exactly the way Lightning Arrow did, but it's even better at triggering the rods. It doesn't cost mana,

and because all of our damage comes from these rods, which uses our bow stats, it means we can pick up things like life on

Hit life on kill and mana on kill in our crossbow to sustain our El through long maps and even in boss fights.

Without losing any of our damage, this is the tech that I was talking about in the intro that makes the entire campaign and

the boss fights that come with them so much easier. And the best part is because we don't really care about our crossbow

damage because our damage is coming from these Lightning Rods, it means we can pick up a low-level crossbow and not worry

about the increased strength requirements. Eventually, you will want to upgrade into a real crossbow, but it makes the requirements to get this build

online so much easier. So the support gems we're choosing to run on these Galatic Shards are Chain, for this

exact same reason; it's going to chain even more times, but we're also going to have access to Fork, which is a tier

three skill gem. This is going to make our projectiles Fork, which is going to give us even more projectiles to trigger

these rods. If you do not yet have access to tier 3 support gems, what we can run instead is this Ammo Conservation. This

is going to give us a 25% chance to not consume a bolt with our Galatic Shards,

which generally means that we're going to have about 25% more ammo. This is something that you'll want to upgrade

from, but at tier 2, this is definitely the best option that you have until you get to tier 3s where you can add in

Fork. Our last skill upgrade is going to come in the form of Tornado Shot at level 41, which is going to add a small

bit of burst damage to bosses by briefly multiplying our Galatic Shards and proc more Lightning Rods. It's important to

keep in mind that there is a limit to how many times a Lightning Rod can proc, so even though Galatic Shards will use

Your rods quicker than the arrow; you're going to be doing the exact same amount of damage, but in a shorter amount of

time, which is a big DPS increase. Tornado Shot also works the same way, where there is a limit to how many projectiles can

be multiplied, and because Galactic Shards kind of shoots all of its projectiles at once, you're not really getting that much

multiplication on it, but we do get a little bit of damage, so it's worth adding it in when you get there, but it's

not something that you really want to go out of your way for; it's just kind of a nice pickup when you get there. The last

skill gems that we're running are all Spirit gems, which these are going to come online way later into the game, um,

so I'm going to talk about them later in the video in more detail, but the one I want to talk about here is Herald of

Thunder, because this is going to be something that you're going to have access to in Act 1 when you first

unlock your first 30 Spirit. The reason why we're choosing this one first is because it has insane AoE, so it's

going to help mapping a lot, and it's also going to activate something in our skill tree which is going to give us 50%

more damage, so this is definitely the first one that you want to pick up. The other three, again, I'll get into more

detail with, but for now we're running Wind Dancer because it's amazing, Ghost Dance because it's also amazing, and

Lingering Illusions, which is going to be something that will fall off in the very, very late game, but when you're first

getting into endgame content, this thing is amazing. But again, that will all come later, so if you're interested in that

part, it will be time-stamped. So now that we've covered the skill gems, let's talk about the skill tree leveling path.

Rather than doing it on my character, I'm actually going to be doing it here on the mobile PoB builder so you can see

exactly how I path and what to take first. I'll explain as I go because this skill tree is very different from

regular Dead Eye boards, but it is so much better. And I suspect that when this catches on, this is going to be the new

standard way to path Dead Eye. If you're just interested in the full level 100 board, I'll have it time-stamped so that

way you can just jump ahead and see the end results. But if you want to see why I'm pathing and where, you can watch

along and watch me do it in real time. So to start out with, let's talk about our ascendancies. We are going to be picking

the Dead Eye ascendancy with Gathering Winds as our first ascendancy node. Our second and third is going to be

Proximity Specialist, moving up to the damage to close, and Endless Munitions, which is going to give us even more

projectiles for even more damage. With our fourth ascendancy, we're going to be picking up Windward, but for now, I'm

just going to assume three ascendancies because this one is really hard to get to. So to start out with, we're going to

start on the attack speed part of the opening tree, and then instead of pathing down, we're actually going to be pathing

up. And our goal is to path into the Monk starter board here. We're taking Step Lightly, which is going to give us

increased mana regeneration rate and movement speed, which is going to be amazing for early game and normally late

game. We want Mindful Awareness, which is going to give us increased evasion, which is really great for our build, and it's

also going to give us maximum energy shield which we're going to be using Ghost Walk, so this energy shield is

actually really, really good, but they don't do a lot for us early game, so instead we're going to go for Life from

Death. This is going to give us 3% life on kill, as well as three life on hit per

little node. These are incredibly strong early game, and it's one of the reasons why I'm pathing into this so early on.

Top of it being insane late game, it's also just really good early game. This is going to help you get sustained through

long maps, that way you're not constantly going through town. It's also going to save you in really clutch situations

where you're able to just kill a few mobs to stay alive. After that, we're going to move into Flow Like Water for

increased cast speed and attack damage. Now, if you're not familiar with cast speed, you can basically think of it as

attack speed for all intents and purposes for this build. There are differences for attack speed and cast

speed, but for our class they're the same thing. We're going to come up and we're going to be picking up more attack

damage and more attack speed. And then finally, in the Monk side of the tree, we're going to be taking this Flow State,

which is going to give us increased attack speed, but also increased mana regeneration rate, which isn't going to

be so helpful later, but it's going to be a game changer early to keep you capped up. After we finish off here in the Monk's

tree, we're not going to be pathing down like you'd normally see; we're actually going to be pathing into this node I

don't see hardly anyone taking, and that is Blinding Strike. Now, Blinding Strike just says get 44% attack damage,

non-conditional, no drawbacks; it's just a flat 44% attack damage. It is so strong, and getting it this early is amazing.

I don't know why more people don't get this note. I guess people just aren't, you know, pathing like this, and no one's

really up here. But this is a huge payout to being able to path like this. Moving on from here, we're going to be going

over and picking up another cluster. I don't really see people play with, which is this—these clusters—which is going to

give us 10% attack damage, 10% increased ailment chance against rare and unique enemies. So we're getting

more shocks and more electrocutes. We don't really care about the Mana Leach, but what we really do care about is this

30% attack damage against rare and unique enemies, which are going to be bosses and monsters with yellow and red bars. This is so

strong, and it's going to help us burst down the enemies that we really care about bursting down. And, you know, we

obviously get a little 10% attack damage there, which is really, really good. We're going to come down and pick up this gem

socket, and we're going to path into getting Calamity. Now, our first 30 spirit that we get is going to be spent on

Herald of Thunder. So, because we're picking up Herald of Thunder very early, in the end of Act 1, this is just going to

Path of Exile 2 - The Complete Ranger Beginner Guide From Leveling to Endgame

Path of Exile 2 - The Complete Ranger Beginner Guide From Leveling to Endgame