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Gloom 5 / Thief 4 / Battlemaster 3 leveraging hand xbows is very strong.
The problem is Swords Bard 7/Thief 3/Fighter 2 does everything that build does but better.
Swords Bard 6 is double Gloomstalker Ranger 5's damage in every situation, it gains more expertise and proficiencies, and it's full spell casting is insanely useful in dialog and combat. Enhance Ability basically means never failing a skill check from Bard 3 on.
Even the Fall back of SB 8/Thief 3/Fighter 1 outpaces the Ranger build on all fronts.
Completely agree - I was responding to someone who expressed surprised at anyone playing Ranger at all. The Gloomstalker build is certainly overshadowed by the swords bard build, but it's still a very strong build and perfectly viable in tactician - as you know, it just isn't that tough. And while swords bard is stronger, it too is overshadowed by Sorlock EB rider-stacking builds which are in turn completely ec;lipsed by simple tavern brawler zerker throw builds.
All I was saying is that it's not completely unreasonable for someone to play Ranger and while it's certainly not the best it's still a very strong build and perfectly capable of destroying tactician.