Best RANGER LEVELLING & First Ascendancy | PoE *OUT OF DATE New guide on channel*

If you're reading this it's probably because you're rolling a ranger and want to get to maps as quickly as possible. This will go through the optimal skills and tree to get to level 28 quickly and safely with minimal rerolling later. Twilight Strand We start with Burning Arrow and pierce, which makes really easy work of Hillock if we Kite him. Coast In town we get Caustic Arrow from Tarkleigh for completing the enemy at the gate quest, this will replace Burning Arrow to become our new 2 link! Out on to the coast now, and we do not need to kill anything in here unless it's in a big enough pack to cause us problems. Mud Flats Into the mud flats and head to all the rhoa nests and pick them off from a distance and kite them until dead. We used to just run in and loot the nests but since they buffed act 1, that is now pretty much suicide and we must kill before looting. If you get stuck looking for the nests remember they form a triangle with the streams running between them. Head to the right side of the arena, touch the wall and head into the submerged passage. Once in there immediately take the waypoint back to the coast. Tidal Islands Head into the tidal islands and head down the left hand side until you reach the wrecked boat. Kill Hailrake, he now tries to predict where you will be to fire his projectile. Alternate your movement direction between his hits to prevent him from doing this. Grab the medicine chest and log out Town Once Back in town grab quicksilver flask and Volley for the medicine chest quest from Nessa, and for breaking some eggs a Shrapnel Ballista and Dash from Tarkleigh. The new 3 Link will be Caustic Arrow, Volley and Pierce. We will be using a shield from level 12 so keep an eye out for one with movement speed and green sockets. Remember that the vendor's inventory resets each time you level. It should go without saying that you should keep an eye out for runners boots too. Submerged Passage Head back to the submerged passage and head upwards to the bridge- this is normally to the right hand side of the area. Drop a portal on the bridge then head for the exit onto the ledge. Ledge When on the ledge follow the path right to the end into the Climb. Avoid killing anything that is not blue or in a big enough pack to kill you. Climb Once in the Climb head right and grab the waypoint. If there is a large open area below the waypoint head that way to the right, otherwise upwards and to the right. Look for the green archer on the cliff and dash right past him. Don't stop running till you reach the prison and take the waypoint back to town. Head for the portal back to the submerged passage and head downwards into the flooded depths, in the unlikely event it isn't down go up! Flooded Depths In here we are looking for a large area surrounded by water with bubbles in the water. Once you find it you will find the dweller of the deep and kill it. For fighting bosses we drop 3 Shrapnel Ballista's and hit them repeatedly with Caustic Arrow. Once he's down grab any decent loot and log out. Town Back in town now and pickup Lesser Multiple Projectiles for the quest reward and buy Void Manipulation These will be from Nessa. Then head over to Tarkligh for the skill book for killing the dweller. Prison We will now form 2, 3 links. Caustic Arrow / Volley / Void Manipulation Siege Ballista/ LMP/ Pierce. Now run through the various areas of the prison until we find Brutus keep those totems down to distract him and keep your distance while hitting him with caustic arrow. When he falls, Loot and log. Town Pick up Precision for completing the Caged Brute quest and then port to prisoners gate, run around the edge until you find an offshoot that takes you the Ship's Graveyard. Ships Graveyard Grab the waypoint, find the overturned boat and enter the cave beneath it, then find the quest marker, grab it and escape. Head for the entrance to the cavern of Wraith top right of the Ships Graveyard. Grab the waypoint and then port back to the Ships Graveyard and kill Fair graves, if all his lines don't kill you with boredom first, once he's down log. Town Grab Poisonous Concoction from Nessa as a quest reward for entering the cavern of wraith. Cavern of Wraith Drop the ballista and caustic arrow and get rid of our bow as poisonous concoction must be unarmed. Switch to a shield. Our new 3 link will be Poisonous Concoction, LMP, Volley. Keep Void Manipulation socketed somewhere if you have a spare green socket to keep it levelling as we will be using it in our 4 link later. Activate our precision aura for accuracy and crit chance and pick up charisma and Vitality from Nesa and use as soon as you can. Providing you get to level 12 before Mervail this will be what we use to kill her. To get to mervail we need to run through the cavern of wraith and anger. Also before the fight try and get some cold resistance. If you have an iron ring you can sell it with a blue gem to get cold resistance ring. Poisonous concoction gains damage from the amount of life our life flask gives us meaning we don't have to constantly upgrade our weapon as we level, just our flasks, which are far cheaper. Poisonous concoction does consume life flask charges so we will want to get this cluster on the tree. Once mervail is down head out the door behind her and sprint through the forest to the act 2 town. **ACT 2** Sell any junk and head out the right hand door into the Old Fields. Old Fields Follow the path till you reach the exit to the crossroads. If you don't have your second quick silver then drop a portal at the door or near the den entrance if you come across that first. CrossRoads Into the crossroads and head to the waypoint, If you don?t have the quicksilver then port to town, follow the portal to the den and kill the big white bear at the end. Log and get your flask from Yenna. Take the waypoint back to the crossroads and head straight up until you find the chamber of sin. Chamber of Sin Head to the centre of the chamber and follow the direction of the waypoint to the stairs into level 2. There is a trial of ascendancy in here. Find a narrow offshoot and follow it till the end where we will seek and destroy Fidelitas. Killing every boss in the early game follows the same line. Run around the target and throw Poisonous Concoction at them until they die. Grab the baleful gem from the crafting bench and log. Log back into town and grab Herald of Agony as the quest reward from Gruest. head left now into the riverways. Riverways Follow the path from right to left and grab the waypoint when you pass it. We are using dash so you may have some difficulty jumping the broken bridges. If this is the case find another way around (I hate dash). There are some new mobs in here, they look like trees. Nasty little blighterws shoot Toxic Rain at you and are very rippy. Keep moving to avoid. Eventually you will find the door to the Western Forest. Western Forest Follow the path right to the bottom of the map grabbing the waypoint and noting the side of the path it is on. At the bottom of the map kill Captain Arteri. Grab the Thaumetic emblem from his lifeless corpse and shove it into the Thaumetic Seal. Bestil in Act 1 will give you a skill book for this, but not quite yet. Head up the wall in this area on the opposite side of the path to the waypoint, until you find the Weavers Chamber. Go in find the arena and kill the weaver. When she's down grab the stick type thing and logout. When we log back in, go to act 1 to get your skill book, then The broken bridge to kill Kraiten and the Wetlands to kill Oak. Once he is down find the waypoint and port back to western forest. Head in the direction of the wall on the same side of the waypoint, once you hit the wall head down to find Alira. Help her for the resists, Crit multi and mana. If this is not your league starter and you have levelling gear then you could consider killing her for the two skill points. We don't need any of the quest rewards from silk for killing the Weaver so grab any of them before continuing our Journey into the Vaal Ruins. Vaal Ruins Eventually you will find a ball sitting on a bridge, touch it and stuff goes dark till the end of act 2 which is swiftly approaching. Go past the ball and find the exit to the northern forest and run to the top exiting through the waterfall into the caverns followed by the ancient pyramids. Ancient Pyramids Get to the top of the pyramids and kill the Vaal Overseer. This is a slow and painful fight but is fairly easy to do deathless. Once he's down log and port straight into act 3. **ACT 3** From the waypoint head left until you find Clarisa chained to a post. Kill the Guard Captain and talk to her before heading into the town. Fail to talk to her and she won't be in town when you need her later. I personally failed to talk to her in this run. The Slums When you get into the town run up onto the wall and head out right to the slums, Eventually find the crematorium and head in. There is a Trial of ascendancy in here. Eventually you will reach Piety, there is a crafting recipe right next to her. Kill her adds and knock her down to 50% health and she'll run away. T ouch Tolmen and pick up his band. Take it to Clarisa and she will give you the sewer key. Talk to Maramoa and pick up Grace, we will use this as soon as we get the mana nodes and Grace mana reservation efficiency from the tree. Sewer Exit to the slums again and open the sewer grate and head in, you can start to drop 4 links from here, when you get a for link all green our sockets will be Poisonous Concoction, LMP, Volley and Void Manipulation! Remember to grab the waypoint in here as we will need it later. Also grab the 3 bust for the skill point book. The exit to the market is always up and far left of the waypoint. The Market Run through the market, there is nothing much to do in here apart from to find the entrance to the Battlefront, If you need the Trial of ascendancy it's in the Catacombs that you almost always run past to get there. The Battlefront In here head out of the door left and slightly downwards till you find the waypoint. There is a quest item to pick up directly bellow the waypoint . If you are level 24 or over, go out to the docks left, under the the Solaris Temple up. You will run the other area you didn't do after this one. I'm 24 so docks it is. The Docks In the docks you need to find the supply container quest marker. Open the container and pocket the item. This area is very good for XP so I do try and gain a level or 2 in here. Then log and find your way to the other area. The Solaris Temple In the Solaris Temple find the stairs to the next level and find the Not a Cockroach Lady, grab the strength amulet and get the explosive talc stuff. Log out The Ebony Barracks When you log back in port to the Sewers and blow the fatberg below the waypoint, head out to ebony barracks, grab the waypoint and head to Gravicius. This fight is long and painful, prepare to Kite! Eventually he'll die, and you should be level 28 and may want to start taking your own path with your own skills, but stick around to the end to find out the fastest path for each ascendany. Continue on up to the Lunaris temple. In here we fight piety again. This fight does not cause any major concerns for this build but it is quite slow. One she is down grab the key and log. Imperial Gardens Log back in and head through the Imperial Gardens. Once you find the waypoint follow the wagons. Sceptre of God Enter the Sceptre of god and get to the very top to fight Dominus. This fight is long and hard you will need to use dash to dodge some of the heavier hits. Once you kill the man, go for the beast. The beast can cause bleed but if you have the flask nodes you will be regenerating flask charges more quickly than you use them and this phase will be no issue. Once he's down head out to the Aqueduct and head right to left to the act 4 Town of HighGate. **ACT 4** As soon as you get to town head out the the right into the dried lake. Look for an area surrounded by a fence with a quest marker. Go inside and kill Voll, He will drop Deshret?s Banner. Grab this and log. When we get back in head straight to the gate to the mines and use the banner to open it. Head upwards until you find the exit to the mines level 2. In here find Deshret and touch her for a skill point book from Tasuni. Once you've done that, find the exit to the Crystal Veins and find the waypoint. Take the waypoint back to town and grab the skill book before heading into the lab. Once you have vanquished Izaro it's time to ascend! Checkout the Video for full Ascendancy Details