Help with Ranger Hero build

You could also go for Sundering mod, it helps in Hard Mode vs the high armored foes. With sundering only giving effectively 4% unconditional armour penetration Vampiric will easily outdamage it with 5 armour ignoring damage.

Poison Tip Signet is meh, I would rather my hero used an attack skill on the target instead of stopping to use Poison Tip Signet. Poison is alright with apply poison and it last for all attack and can be spread around easily, but Poison Tip is pretty limited and only really comes in usefull in areas with foes that can take a while to kill.

Keep both Savage and D-shot on the bar, heroes are godly with interupts.

Try grabbing BHA, in most cases its better anti-caster than Chocking Gas, especially if you have some physicals or MMs in your group. Grab Read The Wind to avoid the chance of it missing with its usually long flight time.

Keep Lightning Reflexes, spending 1/3 of the time blocking takes a bit of pressure off your prots and healers, it also provides an IAS for increased damage output.

Drop Troll Unguent, if you need the healing your party doesnt heave enough support/you have too few healers/your healers suck. It also means investing into Wilderness Survival when attributes could go elsewhere. You could pick up another block stance like Whirling Defence to cover for the reduced healing if you feel he takes too much pressure.

Without a huge amount of energy spare to assist with damage something like Sloth Hunters would be good.

Exp headpiece
Min exp
Min marks
Best vigor rune you can afford
Survivor Insignias
Vitae Runes

Thats the standard ranger setup I use with most of my bow builds. If I use far more 5 energy skills that 10 energy skills I use a marks headpiece so I still meet the Exp breakpoint for 5E skills, but have an increased damage output.

With Read The Wind a nice bow to use for more damage is a Hornbow, if you find he missed with attacks to often switch to a recurve.
Generally bows should be Vamp 15^50 +30HP/+5AL/+7ALvsX
If you are running a key condition such as daze from BHA you should have the bow mod for that condition.

Try grabbing BHA (...). Grab Read The Wind to avoid the chance of it missing with its usually long flight time. BHA has a set flight time and cannot be varied by other factors like Read the Wind.

BHA has a set flight time and cannot be varied by other factors like Read the Wind. Thanks for the info, just me asuming things when it seems like it works better with RtW. It can be varied negligibly by bow types according to wiki.