​[Feedback] Gemling Legionnaire Worst Ascendancy

I remember GL Ascendancy was marvellous at the start of game. It was something new together with Witch hunter and people got excited to try it. But in 8 months GL Ascendancy faded away with so many changes that had ruined in a critical stage power and build variations. In the end became more and more punishing making people abandoned it for other more profitable Ascendancies.


1. Small nodes changes was the first strike to the GL's heart. For example comparing with Witch Hunter seems more like that Devs wanted to limit the power to spesific builds.

Witch Hunter Passives
Small Passives
8% increased Area of Effect
15% increased Armour and Evasion Rating
6% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
35% increased Damage with Hits against Enemies that are on Low Life

With these small nodes, WH Ascendancy doesn't ruins balance nor punishing the overall build variations.

2. The shape of GL Ascendancy starting with 3 paths and 3 small nodes providing meh buffs wether WH Ascendancy has 5 starting paths with significant strong small nodes. Clearly the difference is noticeable that leads to builds limitations for GL Ascendancy.

3. Main nodes like Crystaline Potential are cutting the way for building more combinations and provide buffs that are useless for non minion builds because Quality doesn't bring any significant difference in most Crossbow skills. Another example is Enhanced Effectivenes that despite the marvelous look in the end any bonus applied to builds is weak and that is clearly understood if we calculate the max possible Strength points that a Merc char can reach. (Max 300 strength wich impossible to exceed this value and the bonuses are +600 life if and only if you sacrifice everything else in the name of surviving. Still +600 Life can't bring the diference in an amount of 2,4k standard base life.

4. Strong builds need to have options for every defensive element wether they provide weak buffs or not. For example Chaos reductions that Smith of Kitava Ascendancy does it well is one of the strongest Dev's implementations and is missing from GL Ascendancy not becouse there isn't exists there but becouse also it doesn't exist any other similar option in passive tree.

Yeah, sad to see GL obliterated after 0.1. My 6th character in that league was a GL spark stat-stacker. Sure, that was broken, but they didn't correct the issues...they just removed the ascendency from use.