So, I was thinking of doing a ranged ranger for my final ranger life, and I'm ashamed to admit I have no clue how to do one. I have most of the good gear to do one (pinion, Unwavering Ardency, etc), 30+ heroic lives, a ton of epic lives done, etc, but have yet to ever do a single ranged build other than 1 artificer life several years ago. I saw a number of threads on this page, but by and large they are elf, and I don't understand why, and I'm ambivalent about elves. I've always been human/WF/iconic except for one dwarven life, so elf seems... weird to me.

My needs largely revolve around that I want it to be fun, don't care about OP (or I'd just pile warlock lives) but want to feel competent. I plan to take it through heroics and maybe 1-2 epic lives, but do not plan to hang at 28, so I'd want to avoid something which bloomed around 25+ because at that point I'm just kinda finishing off an epic life.

I don't care about pure ranger vs multiclassed, as long as it was fun. Oh, and no iconics except BF (due to having completed all the others).

So, uhhhh, ideas?