Ranger
DeadeyeThis build is soooo much fun and can do all the content in the game! This is as close to a one button build as you can get.
Why 
Deadeye?
- This build excels with lots of attack speed and additional projectiles. Deadeye gives us both of these things with
Gathering Winds & 
Endless Munitions. - Other ascendancies would also work but I felf like deadeye is the best option.
Starting Out
Full levelling guide for gear and trees below.
While 
Molten Blast is our final ability, we want to level with bow skills. It feels smooth and is incredibly easy to make it through the acts. We switch over to Molten Blast when you can afford to buy 
Brutus' Lead Sprinkler. I recommend switching when you finish the acts around level 60. You also want to have taken Endless Munitions before making the switch.
We start with 
Lightning Arrow & 
Lightning Rod for bosses. We use these skills until level 31 when we can switch to 
Ice Shot & 
Snipe. We also add 
Freezing Mark once we swap to Ice Shot. Use 
Ice-Tipped Arrows when available!
If you need more assistance while leveling, Fubgun has a very in-depth guide to get you through the acts. My build is similar while leveling. Return to this guide when ready to switch to maces around level 60.
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/ice-shot-deadeye-leveling-guide
MODS TO LOOK FOR WHILE LEVELING BOWS
- Flat damage
- Attack Speed
- Elemental Damage
- Attack Damage
- Mana on Kill
- Mana Regeneneration
- Life on Kill
- Evasion
- Life
Switching to Maces/Molten Blast (~Level 60)
Use Brutus' Lead Sprinkler as well as a Rare Mace with Strength, Attack Speed, and FLAT elemental damages. We want to dual-wield so we get the extra projectiles. Using a shield instead of dual-wield maces causes us to lose 2 projectiles and feels bad.
We convert fire damage to lightning using 
Valako's Vice Gloves until we convert Fire to Cold using 
Twisted Empyrean and 
Giant's Blood
Get as much STRENGTH AND MANA as possible. Our damage scales from both of these mods!!
MODS TO LOOK FOR WHILE LEVELING BOWS
- STRENGTH
- MANA (Scales Cold Damage when you switch to Twisted Empyrean
- Dexterity
- Intelligence
- Flat damage
- Attack Speed
- Elemental Damage
- Attack Damage
- Mana on Kill
- Mana Regeneration
- Life on Kill
- Evasion/Armor
- Life
- Deflect
Ideally, we go pure evasion. But to roll STRENGTH on items we need to use hybrid Evasion/Armor gear. so we try to get as high of rolls as possible on gear to get as much evasion as possible.
Strength is our most important attribute, but we still need as much Dexterity and Intelligence as possible. Take almost all strength nodes in the tree
Uniques
Brutus' Lead Sprinkler (Essential)
Astramentis (Lots of attributes)
Twisted Empyrean (Converts Fire damage to Cold)
Hand of Wisdom and Action (Attack Speed & Lightning Damage)
From Nothing (Chaos Inoculation)
- Take
Thin Ice > Heavy Frost > 
Pure Chaos
- Take
Annoints
Beef if you want more strength and haven't pathed there yet
Agile Succession (Cheap, offence and defense
Essence of the Mountain (More Cold Damage)
Tenfold Attacks (Strength and Attack Speed)
Ascendancy Order
Projectile Proximity Specialisation > Point Blank
Endless Munitions
Gathering Winds
Called Shots
Attributes
This build takes advantage of all 3 attributes and the benefits that come along with them:
- STRENGTH
- Flat Fire damage for every 25 strength
- LIFE (Benefits are halved after we take Giant's Blood)
- Chance to proc
Molten Shower every 25 Strength
- DEXTERITY
- Provides a lot of accuracy
- Accuracy scales our attack speed w/ Hand of Wisdom and Action
- INTELLIGENCE
- Provides MANA
- Mana scales with Twisted Empyrean to give us added flat cold damage
- No mana issues when spamming abilities
Jewel Mods
Sapphire and Emerald are best bet:
YOU NEED ONE "2% Mana on Kill" Jewel
OTHER MODS TO LOOK FOR
- Attack Speed
- Cold Penetration
- Elemental Damage
- Freeze Buildup
- % Strength
- Attack Damage
Heart of the Well is nice if you can find good mods
From Nothing is explained above in the UNIQUE section
