Classes & Ascendancies

Pathfinder

Pathfinder is an Ascendancy class for the Ranger.

3 min read·Updated 2026-07-10·Editor score 93/100
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Pathfinder is an Ascendancy class for the Ranger.

Overview

The Pathfinder is a survival specialist with a focus in flasks, mobility, and flexibility with the passive skill tree. Enduring Elixirs allows her life flasks to continue recovering her life even after recovering to full, and she can learn one of five Concoction skills to turn her mana flask into a source of damage. Relentless Pursuit and Running Assault keeps her mobile by mitigating effects that can reduce her movement speed or stop her entirely. The Pathfinder can gain a second starting point on the passive skill tree with Path Seeker and gain additional choices of stat bonuses on the travel nodes from Traveller's Wisdom. Other passives include Overwhelming Toxicity to double the number of poison stacks, and Sustainable Practices to gain elemental damage reduction from evasion.

Passive skills

Minor skills

This class has the following minor passive skills:

NameStats
Evasion20% increased Evasion Rating
Life Flask Charges20% increased Life Flask Charges gained
Mana Flask Charges20% increased Mana Flask Charges gained
Passive PointsGrants 1 Passive Skill Point
Poison Effect12% increased Magnitude of Poison you inflict
Skill Speed4% increased Skill Speed

Notable skills

This class has the following notable passive skills:

SkillModifiersPrerequisitePreceding Passive
Enduring ElixirsLife Flask Effects are not removed when Unreserved Life is FilledLife Flask Effects do not QueueLife Flask Charges
Sustainable Practices50% of Evasion Rating also grants Elemental Damage reductionEvasion
Path SeekerPath of the SorceressGrants 4 Passive Skill PointsCan Allocate Passive Skills from the Sorceress's starting pointPassive Points
Path of the WarriorGrants 4 Passive Skill PointsCan Allocate Passive Skills from the Warrior's starting point
Traveller's WisdomAttribute Passive Skills can instead grant 5% increased DamageAttribute Passive Skills can instead grant 5% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy ShieldAttribute Passive Skills can instead grant 5% incPath SeekerPassive Points
Brew ConcoctionExplosive ConcoctionGrants Skill: Explosive ConcoctionMana Flask Charges
Shattering ConcoctionGrants Skill: Shattering Concoction
Fulminating ConcoctionGrants Skill: Fulminating Concoction
Acidic ConcoctionGrants Skill: Acidic Concoction
Bleeding ConcoctionGrants Skill: Bleeding Concoction
Overwhelming ToxicityDouble the number of your Poisons that targets can be affected by at the same time50% less Poison DurationPoison Effect

Version history

VersionChanges
0.5.0The Overwhelming Toxicity Notable Passive Skill now grants 50% less Poison Duration (previously 35%). The Running Assault Notable Passive Skill now grants 30% less Movement Speed Penalty from using Sk
0.4.0Contagious Contamination has been Removed. Practical Remedies has been Removed. Running Assault now also grants Cannot be Heavy Stunned while Sprinting. Added a new Path Seeker multi-choice Ascendancy
0.3.0The Sustainable Practices Notable Passive Skill now grants 50% of Evasion Rating also grants Elemental Damage Reduction (previously 30%). Poisonous Concoction, granted by the Poisonous Concoction Nota
0.2.0The Running Assault Ascendancy Passive Skill now grants 50% less Movement Speed penalty from using Skills while moving (previously 30%). The location of this Passive Skill has been swapped with Relent
0.1.0eConcoction skills from the Pathfinder Ascendancy Class now consume 3 charges from Mana Flasks (from 5). Their damage has been increased and deal approximately 66% more Damage when the skill is Level 2
0.1.0Introduced to the game.
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