Ranger
PathfinderPath of Exile 3.27 
Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing will be an amazing choice to help you blast through the campaign and get started in the early stages of the league!
This build guide will go over Skills, Passives, Ascendancy Points, Early end game gear and gear to get to tier 17 maps!
Below you will find leveling trees that will walk you through each act!
To begin we will be selecting the Ranger class and specializing into the 
Pathfinder ascendancy once we hit Act 4!
To begin leveling this character in Act 1 from level 1 through 12 we will be using 
Spectral Throw! This skill combined with a 2 hander will be massive damage throughout all of act 1! Once we hit level 12 we will be making the swap over to Poisonous Concoction.
One of the biggest upsides to using Poisonous Concoction is that we will not need to focus on using a weapon throughout the campaign and all we need to do is focus on keeping our life totals up and resist high!
Throughout your main links will be as follows:
Poisonous Concoction + 
Volley Support + 
Void Manipulation Support + 
Vicious Projectiles Support this will be more then enough to get you through!
Once you hit maps though you either want to run your Merciless labs or head on over to the trade site and pick up Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing this will make your mapping experience super smooth!
When we make the swap to the alternate quality version we will want to change our links as follows:
Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing + 
Greater Volley Support + 
Greater Multiple Projectiles Support + Void Manipulation Support
The reason we change our links is since we swap to the bouncing variant we want to make sure it bounces as many times as possible! With having Greater Volley Support and Greater Multiple Projectiles Support we will be increasing our bounce count from 3 to as high as we can get it! More bounces , more overlaps, more overlaps, more damage!
The best part too is this skill with enough bounces will bounce all over the screen and clear everything without problem!
Note though at the end of the day this is a poison / dot skill so it might take a second for the dots to tick and kill the mobs!
One other big thing to note using this skill! Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing relies heavily on having a proper flask setup. What this means is the following: "Consumes 8 charges per Projectile Fired from 1 Life Flask is possible. Added Chaos Damage equal to 5% of Flaks Recovery Amount if charged were consumed from a Life Flask"
Meaning that you want to make sure your life flask has the highest amount of life recovery possible on it! More recovery, more life, more damage!
Last updated 10/29/2025 (will update as needed)
Spectral Throw
