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Only the damage from Favored Foe is applied This is on page 203, PHB: The following factors can break concentration: Casting another spell that requires concentration. You lose concentration on a sp …

The companion is not an independent mount You quote already what an independent mount is: An independent mount—one that lets you ride but ignores your control—retains its place in the Initiative orde …

Assuming your Ranger is using the standard array or point by, depending on how you allocate ability score increases from race you can expect them to have a +2 or +3 bonus to Dex initially. …

attacks, I‘ll exclude Dex benefits that everyone enjoys, such as better AC when not heavily armored, better Initiative, better Dex saves, and better Dex based skill checks, unless they benefit from some Ranger …

Dread Ambusher not intended to work with unarmed strikes There is precedent from a very similar situation with Divine Smite, where we have this Sage Advice Compendium entry Can a paladin use Divine S …

Simple: get some magic arrows They can help you to improve your DPR, for example simple +1, +2 or +3 arrows will both give you a higher to hit chance, and add to damage. Arrows of slaying can give you …

The companion is a class feature of the Ranger character, but is not the character themselves, so this is a special situation where the creature is not the adventurer, even though it is part of a class …

Only during your turn The Gathered Swarm feature says: Once on each of your turns, you can cause the swarm to assist you in one of the following ways, immediately after you hit a creature with an att …

However, on 2nd level, the ranger can pick the Two-Weapon Fighting fighting style, so they get to add their ability modifier to the second attack: When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your … Depending on what Ranger archetype you pick, and on your opponents, you will get additional bonuses to your damage. …

Yes, they can make 4 attacks (5 if they miss) Attack Action, due to Extra Attack = 2 attacks Use Bonus Action to make 2-Weapon Fighting attack when taking the Attack action (with appropriate weapons; …

Multiattack Defense only helps against legendary actions with multiple attacks The ranger's Hunter archetype Multiattack Defense feature states: When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 …

/rogue: one of the more effective ways if the rest of the party has darkvision is a Gloom Stalker ranger. … It however will not work at the very start, as you need at least 3 levels of ranger and 1 of rogue. …

The easiest way would be to make a small ranger, who could ride a medium size beast, but that ship has likely sailed for you. And permanent alteration effects like this are generally pretty rare. … At high levels, True Polymorph possibly allows you to permanently transform your companion into a large beast, and I think as the features that make it a companion are class features of your ranger, not …

It is not overpowered, but it may be too weak, and that is hard to fix To quantify the effect on combat, let's compare this vs a monster at the high end of the companion range, the CR 1/4 Panther. You …

You can only use the volley with ranged weapons that use ammunition The volley has two conditions for its use it must be a ranged attack it must use ammuntion You can use your action to make a rang …