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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8396202" data-attributes="member: 7030563">After watching this in play I am convinced this is the best Ranger.Gloomstalker is a better martial and a FW is more of a Gish flavor but man he has a lot going for him.  He has awesome charisma skills, they are better than Paladins, Sorcerers Warlocks and comparable to bards who put expertise on charisma skills.  He gets extra damage with dreadful strike and it is psychic damage.The guy in our group has a 16 wisdom and cause fear through shadow touched.  He casts that as a 1st or 2nd level spell to start the fight, every time someone saves he shifts the fear.  The real kicker is it is actually better after someone saves against his cause fear because it goes from concentration frightened to non-concentration frightened.  So after 3 rounds or so his cause fear spell is dead but he still has someone frightened and can cast it again (or cast something else like favored foe).We have not got  to the point yet where he has an squad of concentration-free Summoned Fey running around with each one of them casting a charm every single turn.  I think it is actually going to be overpowered when we get there.  I think we are going to get to a point where after 2-3 turns every single enemy on the battlefield is either charmed or frightened.</blockquote>