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Best Class for Bows

Bow passives near each class start · Path of Exile 2✓ Checked against game files · 0.5.5
Crude Bow
RangerHuntress
Ranger and Huntress
12 bow passives within 20 points
Ranger starts with one in hand

Ranger and Huntress reach the most bow passives: 12 within 20 points of the class start and 12 within 30 (the tree has 19). Next: Warrior (6), Druid (6). The nearest bow notable for Ranger is Feathered Fletching, 17 points away. No ascendancy node names bows. Patch 0.5.5, from the game files.

All 8 classes for bows

Passives whose text names Bow, within 15, 20, 30 points of each class start; sorted by the 20-point count.

  1. Ranger#1
    Ranger
    1 within 1512 within 2012 within 30+6 Two Handed Weapons within 20
    starts withCrude Bow· same tree start as Huntress
    Nearest bow notablesFeathered Fletching17 ptsHer Final Bite36 pts
  2. Huntress#2
    Huntress
    1 within 1512 within 2012 within 30+6 Two Handed Weapons within 20
    starts withHardwood Spear· same tree start as Ranger
    Nearest bow notablesFeathered Fletching17 ptsHer Final Bite36 pts
  3. Warrior#3
    Warrior
    0 within 156 within 2018 within 30+15 Two Handed Weapons within 20
    starts withWooden Club
    Nearest bow notablesHer Final Bite21 ptsFeathered Fletching29 pts
  4. Druid#4
    Druid
    0 within 156 within 207 within 30+9 Two Handed Weapons within 20
    starts withVoltaic Staff
    Nearest bow notablesHer Final Bite21 ptsFeathered Fletching36 pts
  5. Mercenary#5
    Mercenary
    0 within 154 within 2019 within 30+15 Two Handed Weapons within 20
    starts withMakeshift Crossbow
    Nearest bow notablesFeathered Fletching21 ptsHer Final Bite28 pts
  6. Monk#6
    Monk
    0 within 154 within 2013 within 30
    starts withWrapped Quarterstaff
    Nearest bow notablesFeathered Fletching21 ptsHer Final Bite35 pts
  7. Witch#7
    Witch
    0 within 150 within 2019 within 30
    starts withWithered Wand· same tree start as Sorceress
    Nearest bow notablesHer Final Bite27 ptsFeathered Fletching28 pts
  8. Sorceress#8
    Sorceress
    0 within 150 within 2019 within 30
    starts withAshen Staff· same tree start as Witch
    Nearest bow notablesHer Final Bite27 ptsFeathered Fletching28 pts

2 bow notables on the tree

  • Feathered Fletchingnearest: Ranger, 17 pts
    Increases and Reductions to Projectile Speed also apply to Damage with Bows
  • Her Final Bitenearest: Warrior, 21 pts
    20% increased Physical Damage with Bows
    Bow Attacks have Culling Strike

How this is counted

Read from the passive tree in the game files (19 passives name Bow; 15 more apply to Two Handed Weapons). For each class we count the passives you can allocate with 15, 20 and 30 points from its start: every passive on the shortest path costs a point, and another class's start can't be walked through. Two Handed Weapons passives also work with bows but are shared with other weapons, so they only break ties. Ascendancy nodes count the points from the ascendancy start (8 points in total). Ranger and Huntress, and Witch and Sorceress, share a start, so their tree numbers are equal. Plan the path yourself in the passive tree planner.

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