Bloodlines - Seem like a niche/novelty.

I really was excited for some great power from these bloodlines, going through the listed ones made available there aren’t many cases where it’s worth 2 ascendency points. I would almost say even if you gave people 2 extra points they won’t be adding a huge damage multiplier for most builds.


I’m super disappointed with what we’ve seen so far.

idk some ascendancy suck pretty bad but that's just my take on a couple of em, these bloodlines could do a lot to change that in some cases.

really need to see the full list.

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SilentSymphony#3358 wrote:

idk some ascendancy suck pretty bad but that's just my take on a couple of em, these bloodlines could do a lot to change that in some cases.

really need to see the full list.

Yeah I mean there’s more to see but if more than half are bad then even if there are really impactful ones….everyone going to be using the same ones.

Doesn’t feel like there’s a sense of true choice there.

A lot of love for minion players.

How about an ascendancy point with the word "melee"?

yeah very disappointed theres virtually nothing for melee characters

they would be good if we got them for free on top of our ascendancies like we got them in wisp league. its just not worth it like this

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komji#3796 wrote:

yeah very disappointed theres virtually nothing for melee characters

There are some niche builds possible with Farrul at least.

Farrul is actually pretty decent if you anoint Spiritual Aid stack 80% minion damage notables with an Elegant Hubris.

Law of the Wilds lets you summon up to 10 Spectral Wolves that each grant 8 to 16 physical damage and scale with your claw crit and crit multi, and if you wear Dark Monarch you can up the limit to 20 wolves (that's 40% attack speed from the Bloodline and 160-320 flat physical damage added to you).

I'm pretty sure people will come up with more use cases but saying there's "nothing" is a bit of a stretch. Delirium Bloodline also has some interesting shit with Manic Episodes, and Schizophrenic Dissociation is an interesting extra layer of defence you can throw on melee builds with great recovery.

Just get creative. People will find stuff you and I can't even think about rn

A lot of these are just really bad. Only two, maybe three notables that are borderline busted.

I think the idea is to be niche. So I completely agree with OP, except I don't see it as a complaint.

The idea behind these really doesn't seem to be "make something overpowered to slap into an existing build." These are entirely new options for you to make new builds around.

I know (and it's genuinely tragic) that most of this community never creates their own builds and just uses copy-paste with path of building, but even those players just have to wait a few weeks to see what gets cooked up by the madlad theory crafters.

Kinda disappointed with the lack of any decent minion nodes, to be honest. FRoSS is gonna become a lot more powerful with Umbral Army too.