Paizo Unveils Pathfinder’s Remastered Ranger
Pathfinder’s Remastered Ranger does it all. Spells. Ranged attacks. And a whole lot of customization options. Check out the new playtest!
Pathfinder has another Remaster Project class reveal out. This time it’s the Remastered Ranger. It’s an interesting one. Because the Ranger is pretty solid when it comes to Pathfinder. But the fact that the Ranger “works”, and “is playable” out of the gate means there’s a whole different ballgame to play with here.
However, Paizo’s designers are always looking for ways to tinker and open up the classes. Making it easy to further customize your playstyle is always the goal, and to that end, let’s take a look at some of what the Remastered Ranger has to offer.
The Ranger: Remastered – Pathfinder
According to Paizo, the “magical element” of the Ranger is one of the areas that the designers have gone in and tinkered with. The Ranger’s focus spells, called “Warden spells” will now be able to improve as your character levels up. That’s true of many of the ways Rangers level up:
In the Remaster, we’ve baked the spellcasting progression directly into the ranger’s core chassis, ensuring that class features like Ranger Expertise and Masterful Hunter naturally progress the ranger’s spellcasting proficiency all the way up to master. We also streamlined the feats that the ranger uses to accrue their warden spells and recategorized the spells into easily referenced groups; the 1st-level Initiate Warden feat allows you to choose from any of the initial warden spells (which are all of the ranger’s focus spells that start at 1st rank), and there are regularly paced feats all the way up to the 10th-level Peerless Warden feat that gives you access to the strongest ranger focus spells available, which are focus spells that all start at 5th rank.
Along with the general improvements to spellcasting, we also added some new feats to help make certain builds pop and shine a bit more brightly. Precision rangers who like combining warden spells with big shots from crossbows will likely appreciate the Warden’s Reload feat shown below, which allows them to reload as a free action once per round when they cast a warden spell; this combines nicely with staple spells like gravity weapon to increase your weapon damage or spells like ranger’s bramble that damage and immobilize your foes, making them easy targets for you to pick off from a safe distance!
Check out the Remastered Ranger and get ready to brood in a corner and be called Strider.
