Ascendancy respec suggestion for PoE 2

I dont like there being no way at all to change ascendancies in PoE2 as ascendancies are a big part of the process of crafting your character. Trying out different skill-gem combinations will always be limited by which ascendancy you went for which feels bad in my opinion.

I still think it would make sense to give the choice of ascendancy a little more weight than in PoE1 though.

So some examples for a fix for that could be:

1) There is repeatable sidequest given by a witch, living far in the woods in a hut. After helping her with a personal task (e.g. killing a beast and gathering its glands), she offers a recipe for a mind-altering mixture that can disconnect your mind from your past experiences, which you need to find the ingredients for. Once you do, she will brew the mixture for you which you can ingest. Upon ingesting it will reduce your character level by 1 (metaphor for giving up your mastery of certain skills) but reset your ascendancy. You can repeat the part of finding the ingredients and brewing the mixture.

It will soft-lock you into one ascendancy at higher levels while allowing for experimentation at lower levels, as losing a character level will be far more painful later on.

To prevent abuse, the quest will be completable once per day.


2) The respec quest could also be themed around meeting representatives of the act-related cultures respective gods and asking them for a different path to ascendancy/change of the past in exchange for another trial.


3) Another idea I had just now is to give an ever increasing cost to respecing the ascendancy every time you earn another set of 2 points, with the 7th and 8th point fully locking the ascendancy, making it unchangeable. That way players could experiment at least until reaching early endgame.


in short: make respecing ascendancies cost alot more (in terms of progression/time investment) but make it available again

Thanks for hearing me out GGG, you are amazing at what you do
Can't wait for EA

+ vote

not being able to respec ascendancies is just pure nonsense.

Or just let us respec with gold....unreal I can't believe this, picked legionnaire now realise my character would be better on other accendancy..not to mention the gem quality does nothing for my skill at all...really not happy.

Yeah, it's really stupid, especially in an game where a lot of things are new or updated, and you can not tell beforehand how the build will play out. OR something can be destroyed overnight by a hotfix nerf. It's not like those who specifically like to relevel characters are a majority.

So every time I'm trying a build which could be saved by an ascendancy swap, I will be disappointed and might just stop playing that league.

PS I understand that they are kinda trying to get away with removing the most things they can from players (like they've tried with nerfs in 3.15, didn't work that well back then though, lol), so they can get the most fresh start for a new game, as accumulated power creep must be held back in some way. But I just don't understand why would they do that in such a disrespectful way by removing pure QoL.

+ 1

Would love the option to change it.

GGG Just give us respec plz

Please GGG let us respec our ascendency, as a new player I didn't even knew it was permanent and now I'm stuck with it. At least put an actual in game warning.

agreed, makes no sense that it's permanent

Yes, this does not make sense at all. If u pick the false one and don't like it, u can start with a new char

+ Vote

I dont want to play my Merc anymore because Gemling Legionnaire is just bad.
I want to swap to Witchhunter whitout leveling my Char again...