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Ranger Pathfinder

Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing Pathfinder

League starter Can be scaled ProjectileMapping

Build overview

Lob unarmed projectiles that bounce through enemies and spread poison. Your life flask contributes damage, and Pathfinder helps sustain charges.

SSF friendly

Regular Poisonous Concoction works through the campaign with a life flask and defensive rares. Farm the Bouncing gem for the mapping setup.

Gear and skill requirements

  • Life flaskRequiredRefresh the base as you level. Recovery amount contributes to the attack’s added chaos damage when it consumes flask charges.
  • Poisonous Concoction of BouncingRequiredUse regular Poisonous Concoction until you find this transfigured gem in Labyrinth.
  • Rare shieldRecommendedKeep the main hand empty. A shield gives you defenses and access to Shield Charge.

Stat requirements and priorities

  • Gem attributes at level 20155 DexUsable at character level 12 with 33 Dex.
  • Poison chance100% targetConfirm it against a single target so each successful hit applies poison.
  • Accuracy100% hit chance targetAdd accuracy rolls as needed on otherwise defensive gear.
  • Flask charge sustainSustain against bossesTest your setup without kills supplying extra charges.

Sources

3.30 guide
Campaign walkthrough · Acts 1–10

Campaign walkthrough

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Act 1 Merveil

Gems, gear & play

  1. Take Caustic Arrow after Hillock. After Mercy Mission, take Mirage Archer and buy Volley and Chance to Poison from Nessa. Buy Shield Charge and Frostblink after Breaking Some Eggs, and Void Manipulation and Precision after The Caged Brute.
  2. Claim Poisonous Concoction at the Cavern of Wrath and switch at level 12. Equip a shield with an empty main hand. Link Volley and Void Manipulation, then Chance to Poison if you have a fourth socket.
  3. Use your highest-recovery life flask and keep Precision low.

Quests & route

  1. Kill Hillock for Enemy at the Gate. Take the Coast waypoint. For Mercy Mission, trade Nessa Tidal Island’s Medicine Chest for a Quicksilver Flask.
  2. For Breaking Some Eggs, put three Mud Flats nest glyphs in the Glyph Wall. Enter the Submerged Passage. Kill The Dweller of the Deep in the Flooded Depths. Claim Tarkleigh’s skill point.
  3. Cross the Ledge and the Climb. Do the Lower Prison trial on the way to Brutus for The Caged Brute.
  4. For The Marooned Mariner, bring Fairgraves the Allflame from the Ship Graveyard Cave. Kill him and claim Bestel’s skill point. Enter the Cavern of Wrath to unlock The Siren’s Cadence gems. Cross the Cavern of Anger and fight Merveil with cold resistance.

Act 2 Vaal Oversoul

Gems, gear & play

  1. Take Herald of Agony after Intruders in Black. Fix low hit chance with Precision or accuracy on gloves and jewellery.
  2. Upgrade your life flask for damage. Keep a mana flask until you can sustain throws.

Quests & route

  1. From the Crossroads, do the Chamber of Sins Level 2 trial. Rescue Helena and take Fidelitas’s Baleful Gem for Intruders in Black.
  2. Find Kraityn at the Broken Bridge. Cross Fellshrine Ruins for the Crypt trial. For Through Sacred Ground, bring Yeena the Golden Hand from Crypt Level 2 for a skill point.
  3. From the Riverways, find Alira and Arteri in the Western Forest. Open the road with Arteri’s emblem for The Way Forward. Claim Bestel’s point in Act 1. Kill the Weaver for Maligaro’s Spike in Sharp and Cruel.
  4. Find Oak in the Wetlands for Deal with the Bandits. Use your build’s choice if listed. Alira grants +15% elemental resistances. Eramir grants one passive point for killing all three. Collect the amulets and claim the Apex.
  5. Use the Baleful Gem and Maligaro’s Spike at the Vaal Ruins for The Root of the Problem. Cross the Northern Forest and the Caverns. Use the Apex atop the Ancient Pyramid to summon the Vaal Oversoul for Shadow of the Vaal.

Act 3 Dominus

Gems, gear & play

  1. After Lost in Love, take Despair for bosses and buy Plague Bearer from Clarissa. Activate Plague Bearer when charged.
  2. Buy Unbound Ailments from Siosa after A Fixture of Fate or Lilly in Act 6. Take Nature’s Reprisal in Normal Lab.

Quests & route

  1. Rescue Clarissa in the City of Sarn. Do the Crematorium trial and defeat Piety. For Lost in Love, trade Tolman’s Bracelet to Clarissa for the Sewer Keys.
  2. Find three Sewer busts for Victario’s Secrets. Claim Hargan’s skill point. Do the Catacombs trial off the Marketplace.
  3. Get The Ribbon Spool in the Battlefront and Thaumetic Sulphite in the Docks for Fiery Dust. Bring both to Dialla in Solaris Temple Level 2. Use the Infernal Talc to clear the Sewers.
  4. Kill Gravicius in the Ebony Barracks for Sever the Right Hand and level 28 gems. Kill Piety in Lunaris Temple Level 2 for Piety’s Pets. Take the Tower Key and claim Grigor’s point.
  5. Do the Imperial Gardens trial. For A Fixture of Fate, bring Siosa four Archives pages in the Library. Carry currency for off-class gems. Run Normal Lab when ready. Use the Tower Key to climb The Sceptre of God and kill Dominus.

Act 4 Malachai

Gems, gear & play

  1. Take Greater Volley after The Eternal Nightmare and replace Volley at level 38 with 63 Dexterity. Swap Chance to Poison for Unbound Ailments when you can reach 100% poison chance.

Quests & route

  1. Kill Voll in the Dried Lake. Use Deshret’s Banner to open the Mines for Breaking the Seal. Free Deshret in Mines Level 2 for An Indomitable Spirit. Claim Tasuni’s skill point.
  2. From the Crystal Veins, beat Kaom and Daresso. Bring their eyes to Dialla and check Petarus and Vanja for support gems.
  3. Cross the Belly of the Beast. Take the three Harvest guardians’ organs to Piety for Corpus Malachus. Kill Malachai in the Black Core. Claim Dialla’s support for The Eternal Nightmare.

Act 5 Kitava

Gems, gear & play

  1. Upgrade your life flask before Kitava. Curse with Despair and throw at the exposed heart.

Quests & route

  1. Take the Ascent to the Slave Pens. Kill Krow for Return to Oriath. Bring Vilenta the Control Blocks Miasmeter for the In Service to Science skill point.
  2. Cross Oriath Square and the Templar Courts. Defeat Innocence for Death to Purity. From the Ruined Square, get the Sign of Purity in the Ossuary. Find three Reliquary relics for Kitava’s Torments and claim Lani’s skill point.
  3. Check life flasks and save resistance gear. Fight Kitava on the Cathedral Rooftop for The Ravenous God. All resistances drop by 30 points permanently.

Act 6 The Brine King

Gems, gear & play

  1. Buy Unbound Ailments from Lilly after Fallen from Grace if needed. Fix resists on rings, belt and shield.

Quests & route

  1. Clear the Twilight Strand and talk to Lilly Roth for Fallen from Grace. She now sells regular gems to all classes. Use rings or bench crafts to restore elemental resistances toward 75%.
  2. Kill Tukohama in the Karui Fortress for The Father of War. Do the Lower Prison Cruel Lab trial. Defeat Brutus and Shavronne in the tower.
  3. Kill Abberath off the Prisoner’s Gate for The Cloven One. Kill Ryslatha in the Wetlands for The Puppet Mistress. Claim all three skill points in town.
  4. Take the Black Flag from the Cavern of Anger. Escort and ignite the Beacon fuel carts. Signal Weylam and sail for The Brine King. Stay inside the storm boundary and dodge lightning.

Act 7 Arakaali

Gems, gear & play

  1. Take Master Toxicist in Cruel Lab. Use Plague Bearer on packs and Poisonous Concoction on Arakaali.

Quests & route

  1. From the Crossroads, cross Fellshrine Ruins. Get Maligaro’s Map and do the Crypt trial. Open the map in Chamber of Sins Level 1 and kill Maligaro for Essence of the Artist. Trade the Black Venom to Silk for the Obsidian Key in Web of Secrets.
  2. Finish the Chamber of Sins Level 2 trial. Run Cruel Lab when ready. Kill Greust for The Master of a Million Faces. In the Dread Thicket, kill Gruthkul for Queen of Despair and collect seven Fireflies for Lighting the Way.
  3. Take Kishara’s Star near the end of the Causeway. Claim all three skill points. Give Yeena the Fireflies in the Vaal City. Descend through the Temple of Decay and kill Arakaali for The Mother of Spiders. Dodge her beam and purple ground.

Act 8 Solaris and Lunaris

Gems, gear & play

  1. Fit Grace if you can sustain throws. Keep accuracy when switching to evasion gear.

Quests & route

  1. Clear Doedre’s Cesspool for Essence of the Hag. Find the Ankh and defeat Tolman in the Quay for Love is Dead. Kill The Gemling Legion in the Grain Gate. Claim both skill points in town.
  2. Cross the Imperial Fields and kill Dawn in Solaris Temple for the Sun Orb in Solar Eclipse. On the other route, cross the Grand Promenade and do the Bath House trial. Kill Yugul in the High Gardens for the Reflection of Terror skill point.
  3. Kill Dusk in Lunaris Temple for the Moon Orb in Lunar Eclipse. Use both orbs on the Harbour Bridge. Keep moving when the inactive boss attacks.

Act 9 The Depraved Trinity

Gems, gear & play

  1. Upgrade your life flask. Curse the Depraved Trinity and let poison tick as you move.

Quests & route

  1. Cross the Blood Aqueduct to Highgate. Get The Storm Blade in the Vastiri Desert. Inspect the Oasis sandstorm. Speak to Sin, then open the Oasis with Petarus and Vanja’s Bottled Storm. Kill Shakari for Queen of the Sands. Claim Irasha’s point.
  2. Take Basilisk Acid from the Boiling Lake. Do the Tunnel Merciless trial. From the Quarry, take Trarthan Powder in the Refinery. Kill Garukhan at the Shrine of the Winds for The Ruler of Highgate. Hand in her feather for a skill point.
  3. For Recurring Nightmare, give the acid and powder to Sin at the Quarry waypoint. Enter the Belly of the Beast. Kill all three Rotting Core guardians. Speak to Sin there to summon the Depraved Trinity.

Act 10 Final Kitava

Gems, gear & play

  1. In Merciless Lab, take Nature’s Adrenaline and use the Divine Font to look for Bouncing. Bring regular Poisonous Concoction to Kitava.

Quests & route

  1. Rescue Bannon in the Cathedral Apex for Safe Passage. From the Ravaged Square, kill Vilenta in the Control Blocks for Vilenta’s Vengeance. Claim Lani’s point. Do the Ossuary trial. Run Merciless Lab before Kitava if ready.
  2. For Death and Rebirth, kill Avarius in the Desecrated Chambers. Bring the Staff of Purity to Bannon. Speak to Innocence in town, then meet him in the Ravaged Square to open the Canals.
  3. Kill Kitava in the Feeding Trough for An End to Hunger. Dodge fire and slams. Attack the exposed heart. Follow Lilly to the Karui Shores. Claim two skill points from Lani. Use /passives in chat to find missed quests. All resistances drop another 30 points. Check them before mapping.

Ready for maps

Finish with Poisonous Concoction, Greater Volley, Void Manipulation and Unbound Ailments. Farm Bouncing in Labyrinth and test hit chance, poison chance and flask sustain against a boss before swapping.

Campaign sources

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