Shadow or Ranger for Flexible ranged char ?

Hello i am just at the beginning of the game, from the char presentation Ranger seemed the king of ranger bow combat.

But after reading the forum, each class is incredibly versatile and deep and now iam wondering if a shadow wouldn't be more suied for my playstyle, in diablo2 i loved my FrostBowazone and my Javazone.

As it Seem the shadow have a more easier path to mix physical/magic damage. and HavingInt as sec stat mean more magic oriented support.

Do i got it wrong ?

this game is pretty flexible with what class you choose, but really what you go really depends on what nodes you want to take, you could start off as a marauder to play a ranged char, if you like, its got good HP there, but if you then want to get eldrich battery, thats a fair way to travel, you would be best starting as a templar, shadow or witch if you plan to take elditch battery. but if you plan to be physical magical damage, depending on what attack you want to use, but starting off as a templar could even work, you have great access to alot of +ele and ele weapon damage nodes there, but then you will want to get some dex, so you could head towards the ranger area.

either way though, if you want elemental damage, consider going to the templar start area, its boss for that shit. +41% ele damage and +50% ele weapon damage, all in close prox...not to mention the 2 fitness nodes and the large life cluster there too... dont go too far out of your way though, i see it alot of the time when people post their specs, they travel 5 nodes for a big fat +15% ele resist node, when they pass +6% all nodes, where they could spend 3 points for +18% all.

hmmm didnt looked at it that way.

you dont need "dex" at all for elemental bow spell ?

yea, you will still need to get dex somehow since most of you attacks and bows will require high dex.

this is my build currently:




Im using split arrow as my AOE dps, my bow requires 114 dex to equip and iv managed,
i started as a shadow, but i could have started as a templar since iv taken shit all dex nodes, iv just scraped by on dex(hence the taking of the +30 node) but to move to a thicket bow, im gonna need some more dex, thats for sure. I now plan to take that last fitness node above the shadow and move down to the ranger area and grab some stuff.

Dont take my build as a guide though....i like to mess around with probably stupid stuff like going iron reflexes, eldritch battery with a boatload of auras...we'll see how it goes...