Development Manifesto: Ascendancy Changes

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Hfgbrzl wrote:

Increases and reductions to damage are additive with all other increases and reductions on your tree, gear, e.g. "increased attack damage, . .", whereas culling strike can be viewed as a somewhat multiplicative damage boost as it will always cull under 10/20% enemy health, regardless of your damage output or the enemy base hp. With 400% increased damage on your tree/gear, another 40% increase from ascendancy would equal "10% more" damage, getting gradually more/less impactful as you have less/more baseline increases already.
On that note, a 10% cull is approximately 11.11%, a 20% cull a 25% "more damage buff". Culling is slightly harder to evaluate in party play as monster hp increases but you will still cull the same, but it gets even more useful the larger the party is.

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Fruz wrote:

So the ascendant has been inspired by Nicole Kidman ... interesting !
Glad I came here !

The trickster added chaos damage node seem quite insane for non dot non chaos builds.
No more free movement skill though, I thought that this one was interesting :(.


PS : what has nothing been done about the retarded inquisitor "ignore resistances on crit" node ?
I thought this was a rework ....

And couple of new keystones' powers seem .... pretty insane to be honest.

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Rushblaze wrote:

Not sure if this has already been asked, but will there be a complete Reset (incl. Ascendencies)

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Aesir7 wrote:

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If the way for balancing Ascendant is to follow up the general buff, it won't really change the overall picture will it?

These parameters are so weak within Ascendant when compared to other setups, this sucks.

+1

Somes are good together tho, but overall looks unbalanced, and honestly it will never be a good ascendancy until you have some proper nodes after normal lab.
I'm playing almost only ascendant and I just never do normal lab because it's worthless the effort. No it's not even that, it's actually slower and less useful to do the normal lab instead of continuing, you'll be just wasting time and take risk. Spending that time to level up and progress will be far more profitable.

now, regarding the current ascendant:
Champion : 10% change to get fortify on hit is not reliable, you design your build with or without fortify, but you can't do shit with 10% chance. Why did it get nerfed ?

Trickster: 15% chances to gain 50% of non chaos damage as extra chaos damage... same story, what is the point here ? make a non reliable node ? and this is a wayyy more shitty than the original, it's just pointless.

Occultist: Switch the +1 curse to curse apply to hexproof and it will be an awesome node.

Overall, yes it is better than the previous ascendant, but regarding the global buff of ascendancy, I don't think there is a case where picking ascendant is better than regular, it's always under. Honestly the idea is good the realization is bellow average.

I'll put some effort to propose you another tree, that you'll probably don't take into account, but at least I will bring something on the table.