Supporting fire ascendancy in tactician..

So i took tactician ascendancy and picked " supporting fire".
it has 1% increased damage per 3 strenght - ok cool,
but WHY THE FLUFF IT HAS 0-20 bASE DAAMGE. AND 40 SECOND COOLDOWN?!?!?!


wHO the hell tought that is well balanced WHAT THE?!?!?

It is ASCENDANCY SKILL it is supposed to be STRONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why even add this nonsense if you are going to balance it so it cannot be usefull?

Yeah those numbers seem about right. When they showcased it before the patch released it wasn't moving the monsters healthbar even a little bit, which begs the question, if you can tell it's weak by watching a 5 second clip of the skill in a clip that is supposed to promote it, how does it make it to release in this state when they were the ones who actually got to use it.

I usually avoid posting just to complain, but this is complete garbage!
I made a Mercenary, ascended as a Tactician even though I disliked some of the ascendancy talents, because I wanted a minion and a useful attack skill. I don't see any minion and I don't see any usefulness.

Patch this embarrassment A.S.A.P.!

I tried both non-minion and minion playstyle and for both its absolutly useless. It doesn't even have utility to it. If it at least would do inherent main/pin with enough %more pin buildup it could be somewhat usefull.

But the raw damage on it simply doesn't make the cut.
Also since the "minioN" of this skill is not physically in your proximity, you can't even buff/scale it with Scepter or the other Ascendency Node that gives 25% of Weapon Damage to your Allies.

I think Supporting Fire should also always Benefit from "Watch How I Do it"(on top of having abaselien damage buff.

I really like these big cooldown skills, but they NEED to be impactful and right now this Ascendency Skill is simply not Impactful at all.

I'd like to point out that they didn't bother putting out a new weapon, new class, or any new ascendancies this season so they could focus on balance and yet, this still exists in the exact same shape it was months ago when this thread was started. What's even the point of this awful ability? A huge cooldown minion ability that doesn't scale with cooldown reduction cause it's a minion ability and on a class that's no where near minion nodes and doesn't scale with the ascendancy's other focus (banners) because it's not an actual minion on the screen with you. Someone had to design this as a placeholder to just troll people.