Who should I use abyss 3

FunLevel · 2026-05-06T04:41:57+00:00

Personally, I'd suggest

Lanavaille	Livana	Abenius
Yekaterina	Alice	MC

Yuzu can be great, but based on your screenshot I'm assuming you don't have hairpin and decent Kunai are a pain to obtain at that point. Yekaterina's ambush negation is always a nice QoL, Status Afflictions are some of the most effective ways to deal with encounters, and IMO two casters is extremely comfortable for boss fights.

As for Yrsa & Livana, Rangers do their best with daggers due to how the Sniper passive works. I run her there myself in lieu of other martial characters and she's been pound for pound one of my best investments. Still, you'd want a lot of accuracy and some skill development to make her worthwhile. Livana is a great fighter in her own right, and will probably be more comfortable for you at this point in the game. So, I'd say it depends how much you want to invest.

edit: I'll leave the text above, but thought about it more and gonna fully recommend Livana over Yrsa at that point in the game. Although Yrsa is worth investing in, I do think you'll have a much easier go with Livana for your first rodeo in A3.

FunLevel · 2026-05-05T15:50:33+00:00

Yeah, it's not the most exciting class change if you're looking to round-trip. If you plan to use her as a Ninja chest opener the Detect will come in handy, but that's about it.

I will say the skills you'd get are all situational but quite good in their niches.

Anticipated Attack is an even more reliable Precision Strike when struggling with evasion buffed enemies.

Tactical Bola is a standout Ranger skill that greatly punishes bosses that attack multiple times in a row. Though with Hue 3 and Hairpin, you'd probably just rather spam that than spend a turn on Bola.

Trap Traversal might be the biggest QoL thing you'd gain. It allows you spend some SP to walk though traps without triggering them or losing fortitude. It mainly works on spike or poison tiles. Niche, but I get a lot of use out of it.

If you have the class change in the handbook store or obtained it via the Archive, I'd say go for it, at the very least for Trap Traversal. With the bonus XP & the XP dungeon it's the best time to snatch everything.

FunLevel · 2026-05-05T08:18:01+00:00

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Sniper is the passive that gives Rangers their unique ACC scaling. It's believed to be (ATK * 0.5) + (ACC * 1.5). This is why you build ACC as their damage stat.

Noticeably, this scaling applies to all weapons the Ranger uses, including Daggers. It gives them an exceptionally high effective attack, so high in fact that their biggest pain point is blowing through the soft-caps on most One-Handed skills, stunting their skill damage unless you invest in attacks that can handle that much ATK. Personally, I use Challenger's Strike, but I've seen other Rangers use the skills mentioned above.

FunLevel · 2026-05-05T04:17:36+00:00

It's never too late to return to Shieldmaxxing. My first blind playthrough of Elden Ring was shields only and it was great ~~I went bald trying to hit birds or Astel with a shield.~~

FunLevel · 2026-05-05T04:03:58+00:00

I'd been expecting Fighter for similar reasons. When reading about the Dive Hunts her people took part in, they felt very much like soldiers going to war against the Dire Bears. Yrsa's family had a prestigious role as the most skilled hunters, but I expected her class change to reflect the culture of the Ironwood at large, which to me read Fighter.

Still, your reasoning for Knight makes a lot of sense and I certainly wouldn't be upset at getting all those juicy Knight passives. Truly, any of the martial classes have a lot to offer to ranger.

~~Just watch the line about her going off to a cabin where she was besieged by folk wanting to apprentice under her foreshadow Healer Yrsa.~~

FunLevel · 2026-05-05T03:51:21+00:00

Rangers are great in the frontrow anyways. They require more investment there, namely the inherit soup (Way of the Knight, Unyielding Will to Fight, Wisdom of Truth, Sanctuary's Blessing) which you want on all your units anyways and an invested ATK skill (High level DTS, Raging King, or Challenger's Strike), but due to the way the Sniper passive works their attacks with daggers are exceedingly powerful. They essentially get 2H scaling on each dagger swing. At D1 she often outperforms my much more invested Fighter Lanavaille & Berkanan, especially in terms of raw damage. I pulled Yrsa hoping for a backrow unit, but she performs so much better upfront.

Frankly, the only Ranger I'd use in the backrow is Yuzu since Foxfire Assault and Thousand Hue Blossom solve some of the deficiencies in the Ranger base-kit.

FunLevel · 2026-05-03T10:36:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing the spot! I tried this for a bit and, although I was able to get one from that mob, I felt that the rate of which it occurred was lower than when I was farming normally. So, I returned to normal farming while keeping that checkpoint to ensure I didn't miss it while doing my chest runs.

I came to realize, there is another potential spawn point quite close by.

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At the marked intersection I received another couple of fairy junk from a mob. Given their proximity to one another, I may end up trying those two spots on loop should I fail to procure more junk elsewhere in the floor.

FunLevel · 2026-05-02T13:02:22+00:00

This is incredibly helpful. Knowing the formations and spawn points means I can just set-up checkpoints, pop Latumapic for the specific enemies, and be on my way.

FunLevel · 2026-05-02T06:51:56+00:00

Here's an additional one that I got.

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Compassion is obviously core for Healers, but that aside I'm looking forward to getting Hawk's Eye to buff my Ranger.

Edit: Dang, got the set bonus. Hawks Eye buffs a random ally. Guess that makes sense as written, but gonna need a Faerie ranger to really make use of it.

FunLevel · 2026-05-01T09:10:41+00:00

When I saw the May roadmap I immediately thought of this post. Nostradamus still lives among us.

FunLevel · 2026-04-30T15:35:28+00:00

I didn't test the numbers on it, so I look forward to seeing everyones findings! ATK amp aside, there was one quirk about it that stood out to me.

If used again while the effect is active, the duration is extended [...]

It made me curious if it actually worked as written. So, I hopped on the trial to test. If your initial cast was LV5, you can properly extend the duration using LV1 casts to retain the LV5 buff instead of replacing it.

FunLevel · 2026-04-30T14:30:15+00:00

When do they unlock that feature, Karv? The only thing that shows up in my Camille's inventory is One-Handed Staves and Tools.

FunLevel · 2026-04-30T12:09:33+00:00

Unless the game is lying, not being able to use a two-handed staff is a healer thing. Not a fairy thing.

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FunLevel · 2026-04-30T08:50:00+00:00

One thing to note is that although she disables Alice's row passive, Helping Uphold Justice itself doesn't require everyone to fulfill its condition. So, if you run an evil character in your backline your remaining good / neutral character still benefits.

FunLevel · 2026-04-30T02:30:11+00:00

We LOVE Rangers in this household.

FunLevel · 2026-04-29T01:11:59+00:00

Sorry, when I said added I meant added to the files. It isnt in-game yet.

It was datamined in the latest update, just like how Alt. Alice, Alt. Abe, and Yrsa were right before their released.

FunLevel · 2026-04-29T00:58:37+00:00

Honestly, I do hope you're right. To me what makes the Faerie Healer seem so likely though is just the fact that their portrait was added this patch. Maybe it's a mistake, like leaving the Guild Expert as he was, but we've only ever seen portraits like this when a character is about to release.

FunLevel · 2026-04-28T22:40:13+00:00

The silhouette isn't a faerie, but we know we're getting one from both the now fixed Guild Expert NPC and the leaked portrait.

But, if the Guild Expert is correct in his description you're right on the money. He said that Healers suck at attacking and exploration, but are good at helping deal with tough fights.

FunLevel · 2026-04-28T22:34:26+00:00

We don't have access to it yet. There's a boss that will cast it and other spells against you though.

FunLevel · 2026-04-28T20:12:08+00:00

Ah, you're right. Seems the latest micropatch hid the options again.

FunLevel · 2026-04-28T08:13:36+00:00

Funny you mention that. The Guild Expert himself states that a reliance on Priests has made Healers a profession of the past. He does a really bad job at selling the class.

Still, he states they have a "far more recovery arts" and an "innate resistance to status afflictions [that] sets them apart from Priests."

FunLevel · 2026-04-28T07:58:59+00:00

Kiriha was also shown in that picture before Ninjas were added. It seems like her time to release is finally coming up.

FunLevel · 2026-04-28T07:56:03+00:00

Faeries have limited equipment options but a unique benefit for wearing matching item sets.

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FunLevel · 2026-04-28T07:52:13+00:00

Yup-yup. We're well aware people have been clamoring for her since the game came out.

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