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Pathfinder: Full Ascendancy Breakdown

A deep dive into every notable on the Pathfinder Ascendancy — flask uptime, poison stacking, and the five Concoction skills.

Pathfinder

Identity

Pathfinder is Ranger's flask-and-poison Ascendancy: it stacks Life/Mana flask uptime and effect duration, layers in a strong Evasion-to-Elemental-Damage-reduction conversion, and unlocks five Concoction skills that consume flask charges instead of a normal skill cost — turning your flasks into an entire secondary damage kit rather than just a sustain tool.

0/8 pointsClick a node or a notable to path the Pathfinder wheel.

Notables

  • Acidic Concoction — 7–11 base Physical Damage. Enemies lose Life equal to 150% of the expected remaining damage of the Poison it consumes, with 30% more Area of Effect per Poison already affecting the enemy; cannot itself apply Poison. *(Base damage/cost/radius confirmed via this site's own gem-tooltip data; the specific 150%/30% Poison-consumption math isn't shown in that data and remains single-sourced — verify in-game if you're planning around the exact numbers.)*
  • Fulminating Concoction — 8–24 base Lightning Damage, 200% more chance to Shock, and 50% more Magnitude of Shock inflicted. (All fully cross-confirmed via this site's own gem-tooltip data.)
  • Shattering Concoction — 12–18 base Cold Damage. Cold-damage skill that inflicts Exposure on Hit and Freezes enemies already Primed for Freeze. (Now cross-confirmed via this site's own gem-tooltip data — no longer single-sourced.)
  • Explosive Concoction — 14–21 base Fire Damage, inflicting 100% more Flammability Magnitude, with secondary mini-explosions that can hit up to 4 already-Ignited enemies. *(Base damage and the Flammability Magnitude figure are now cross-confirmed via this site's own gem-tooltip data; the specific "up to 4 already-Ignited enemies" count isn't shown in that data and remains single-sourced.)*
  • Bleeding Concoction — 11–21 base Physical Damage. Physical-damage skill that Aggravates Bleeding on Hit, with a small area-of-effect explosion. (Now cross-confirmed via this site's own gem-tooltip data — no longer single-sourced.)

Keystone

Pathfinder has no keystone-tier node of its own.

Practical notes

  • Sustainable Practices means your Evasion Rating is quietly doing double duty as elemental mitigation — worth weighing against Armour-based defenses when comparing gear.
  • Path Seeker's class choice (Warrior or Sorceress) is a real fork: it decides which starting-area passives Traveller's Wisdom's attribute-option bonuses end up interacting with, so it's worth picking based on your actual build direction rather than defaulting to one.
  • All five Concoction skills now have their damage type, base damage, Mana Flask cost, and explosion radius cross-confirmed via this site's own gem-tooltip data. Two narrower details remain single-sourced: Acidic Concoction's exact Poison-consumption math (150%/30% Area of Effect) and Explosive Concoction's "up to 4 already-Ignited enemies" secondary-explosion count — verify those two specifically in-game if you're planning around them.

Sources

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