Darkness is still broken (even after the latest "fix")

Darkness is still not behaving as expected against DoTs/Ground Degens.

There was a "fix" in the latest patch, but it only changed how the bug behaves with Darkness rather than fixing the underlying issue.

Currently, and even before the "fix", DoTs/Ground Degens like Corrupted Blood, Bleed, Boiling Blood, Tainted Viscera, etc. first deal damage to your ES until it's broken, and only after that do they start dealing damage to your Darkness.

The intended order of operations should obviously be damage to Darkness first -> damage to ES second -> damage to life third.

Currently we're looking at damage to ES first -> damage to Darkness second -> damage to life third.

This is the same underlying bug that existed before the latest "fix".

The only thing that was changed by the "fix" was Darkness not getting reset to zero when ES was reduced to zero by the damage you take.

Previously your Darkness got instantly reduced to zero when your ES was damaged enough to be fully broken/consumed, this was changed by the "fix", but the underlying issue of ES getting damaged before Darkness still exists in regards to DoT/Ground Degen damage.

Please fix Darkness for real this time. It's been bugged ever since day 1 of 0.1 patch. It's getting really old at this point, and renders the whole Acolyte of Chayula ascendancy essentially useless as there's nothing of value in the entire Ascendancy.

Even if Darkness behaved as it should without any bugs it would still be an extremely bad Ascendancy because it removes Spirit and all the extremely good offensive and defensive buffs that go along with it. Give us something worthwhile in exchange for losing all that juicy Spirit, like extra Armour from Evasion, or extra Deflection, or anything at all really.

As it stands choosing Darkness is a net negative. You lose more than you gain. Having an Ascendancy node that's simply a negative for your character feels awful.

The same goes for the other flavour of Monk, Invoker. Choosing "Protect me from Harm" is also a net negative.

Monks feel super neglected as the two big things in their respective Ascendancies are just worse than not using Ascendancy points at all. You're literally better off not using Ascendancy points than choosing Darkness or Protect me From Harm.