Levelling Guide
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Act 1
Level 1
Take Caustic Arrow from the quest reward and link it with Momentum.
Level 4
Take Mirage Archer from Nessa.
Take Sniper’s Mark and Dash from Tarkleigh.
Buy Pierce from Nessa.
Link setup: Caustic Arrow – Mirage Archer – Pierce.
Use Sniper’s Mark on Rares and Bosses for extra DPS.
Use Dash as your main movement skill (use it on cooldown).
Level 8
Replace Caustic Arrow with Burning Arrow in your links. Use this setup to kill Brutus.
Take Void Manipulation from Nessa’s quest reward and socket it to level it for later use.
Take Precision from Tarkleigh’s quest reward and activate it once you can. Keep it around level 3 to avoid mana issues.
Buy Frostblink from Nessa and replace Dash with it. Keep Frostblink at level 3 or below (higher levels require more Intelligence).
Level 12
Swap to Poisonous Concoction. Nessa will reward you with one when you first enter Merveil’s Caverns.
Try to reach level 12 before fighting Merveil so you can use Poisonous Concoction with decent life flasks and Withering Step to melt her quickly.
In Town:
Buy Volley, Withering Step, Shield Charge, and Faster Attacks from Nessa.
Your main link setup should now be:
Poisonous Concoction – Void Manipulation – Volley
If you don’t have the colors for the full 3-link, just run Poisonous Concoction – Volley.
Remove your bow and equip a shield (preferably one with movement speed).
Drop Caustic Arrow, Mirage Archer, and Pierce.
Keep and use: Frostblink, Shield Charge, Sniper’s Mark, Withering Step, and Poisonous Concoction.
Use Withering Step to apply Wither to bosses — otherwise, avoid using it since it shares a cooldown with Frostblink.
Act 2
Bandit Choice:
Help Alira. The +15% Elemental Resistances is very helpful for league starting.
Later, once your gear improves in early maps, you can switch to Eramir for +1 Passive Point.
Level 16
Take Herald of Agony as your quest reward from Greust.
Buy Blood Rage from Yenna.
Level 20
After defeating The Weaver, take Vicious Projectiles from Silk.
Socket it somewhere so it can gain experience — this gem will later become part of your 4-Link setup for Poisonous Concoction.
Act 3
Preparing Your Links
Begin searching for the following socket colors:
- GGGG – for Poisonous Concoction – Lesser Multiple Projectiles – Void Manipulation – Vicious Projectiles
- GGGB – to use later in Act 6, where you’ll replace Vicious Projectiles with Unbound Ailments (purchased from Lilly).
For movement:
- Aim for RGG to link Shield Charge – Faster Attacks – Momentum.
- You can buy Momentum from Nessa in Act 1 when you have an available slot.
Auras and Curses
- Take Grace from Clarissa’s quest reward.
- Buy Temporal Chains and Purity of Elements from her as well.
- Run Purity of Elements alongside Herald of Agony for now — these will be your two main auras.
- Keep Grace socketed so it can level up; you’ll activate it in Act 6 once you’ve allocated Charisma and Thrill of Battle along with their Mana Mastery.
Replace Sniper’s Mark with Temporal Chains. Use Temporal Chains as your curse for Rares and Bosses going forward.
You can skip the Library and Siosa’s quest — any missing gems can be purchased from Lilly in Act 6.
Act 4
Before doing your first Labyrinth, return to Act 1 and purchase another Poisonous Concoction from Nessa.
After completing the Lab, you’ll gain access to The Divine Font, which allows you to transform a skill gem into a Transfigured version of the same color.
Use this on your spare Poisonous Concoction and hope for the Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing variant.
Starting with the Act 10 Labyrinth, there’s also a chance to encounter an option that lets you instantly transfigure a gem — this can directly grant PConc of Bouncing, which is the superior version of the skill.
Do the Lab around level 31 when your gems have upgraded.
If you’re worried about surviving Izaro, disable Purity of Elements and enable Grace instead — his elemental damage is minor compared to his heavy physical attacks.
If you’re lucky enough to obtain PConc of Bouncing, switch to it immediately.
This version throws a single flask that bounces multiple times, scaling with your additional projectiles. It conserves flask charges and has a much higher DPS ceiling than the standard PConc.
Once you have Bouncing, upgrade Volley to Greater Volley (available in Act 4) and replace Vicious Projectiles with Greater Multiple Projectiles for even more coverage.
If you don’t get PConc of Bouncing while leveling, don’t worry — it’s easy to target farm later once you reach Maps.
Act 6
In this act, allocate Charisma, Thrill of Battle, and their associated Mana Mastery (for +12% Mana Reservation Efficiency).
With these, you can drop Precision and activate Grace, giving you a huge defensive boost for the rest of the campaign.
Complete Lilly’s Beach Quest as soon as you arrive in Act 6.
From Lilly, purchase:
- Steelskin
- Automation
- Unbound Ailments
At this point, you might not have enough sockets for everything.
If necessary, postpone using Automation and Steelskin until you find more gear with available links.
Once possible, link Steelskin – Automation.
Activate Automation just like an aura — it will automatically trigger Steelskin on cooldown.
Add Unbound Ailments to your Poisonous Concoction setup as soon as you have a 4-Link available.
Until then, just let it level in an unused socket.
Vicious Projectiles is still perfectly viable until you obtain PConc of Bouncing — Unbound Ailments is only a slight improvement if you already have a GGGB socket.
Act 7
Complete your second Labyrinth here and select Master Toxicist as your next Ascendancy.
Act 10
After rescuing Bannon on the Rooftop, return to town and choose a Silver Flask as your reward.
Once you have this flask, you can safely remove Graceful Assault from your passive tree and allocate those points elsewhere.
If you prefer not to manually maintain the flask for Onslaught, you can keep Graceful Assault until around level 80 — or until you craft the Movement Speed + Onslaught on Kill modifier on boots, which you should swap to immediately.
Before fighting Kitava, complete your third Labyrinth and take Nature’s Adrenaline.
This greatly improves flask uptime and prepares you for using Replica Sorrow of the Divine later.
Make sure to finish the Lab before facing Kitava, since the final boss fight becomes much harder after the −30% Elemental Resistance penalty.
Ranger
Pathfinder
Caustic Arrow till level 12 and then move to 
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