Ranger: Sniper/Leader

Build a Wasteland 3 Ranger Sniper/Leader with Raider Hater background and Sadomasochist quirk, focusing on Leadership and Sniper Rifles.

Background: Raider Hater

Quirk: Sadomasochist

Role: The Sniper Leader's role is to use the Rally ability to grant squad snipers two additional action points, allowing them to perform two attacks instead of one. The Leader then executes a standard sniper attack, empowered by a +10% bonus damage against humans from the Raider Hater background and a +33% bonus damage from the Sadomasochist quirk. Outside of combat, the Leader resolves computer issues and manages healing.

Attribute Progression:

1. Invest the first 2 attribute points into Charisma to extend the radius of Leadership.
2. Add one point into Strength to start gaining HP points per level.
3. Optionally, round up Speed and Luck to reduce their handicaps.
4. Begin maxing out Intelligence and Awareness in that priority.
5. Dump remaining points into Luck.

Skills Progression:

1. Start the game with 3 points in Sniper Rifles, 2 points in Leadership, and 1 point each in Nerd Stuff and First Aid.
2. Throughout most of the game, try to maintain between 3 to 5 unused skill points to always be able to raise a particular skill needed for a skill check.
3. By level 4, your first priority is to raise Leadership to level 3 and take the Rally perk.
4. After taking Rally, start raising points evenly.
5. Pause investing points into First Aid at level 6.
6. Pause investing points into Sniper Rifles at level 7.
7. Focus on Nerd Stuff and Leadership in that order.
8. After that, max out Sniper Rifles.
9. Invest remaining points into Mechanics to take the Structural Weakness perk or use them to max out Leadership to free up a slot used by a Leadership-related trinket.

Perks Progression:

By level 25, you will gain enough perks to take all perks from the Sniper Rifles, Nerd Stuff, and Leadership perk trees. Tag them as you unlock them.

1. Your absolute first perk should be Rally.
2. Prioritize Mark Target and Demoralize next.
3. Spend your last two remaining perks on Structural Weakness if you invested points into Mechanics.
4. Consider Emergency Response for your final perk.

Stats by Lvl 25:

• Coordination: 10
• Luck: 6
• Awareness: 10
• Strength: 2
• Speed: 2
• Intelligence: 10
• Charisma: 4
• Sniper Rifles: 10
• Leadership: 8 + Book
• Nerd Stuff: 8 + Book
• First Aid: 8 + Book
• Remaining points: 6