YES! PLEASE Add Node Options (from the New Atlas Tree) to the Starting Nodes of the Character Tree

Hey GGG!

Please please please add something like the 'optional nodes' system that you're adding to the upcoming Atlas tree to the starting nodes of each character class. Please please please!

It would be SO awesome to be able to access the Witch's Minion Damage, Minion Life, and Minion Revive time, while not being a Witch.

Having seen that the game can have nodes that provide options like a drop-down menu (like in the upcoming .5 Atlas Passive Tree), it would be so great if something like that could be added to the clusters that are gated behind a character's class.

Some points to consider?

- My assumption is that the majority of characters created in the game are chosen based on the ascendancy that they'll eventually be, not the starting nodes that they'll be travelling through.
- There are some very powerful nodes on the character passive tree that only specific classes can access, but would be beneficial in theory-crafting for all classes.
- There really isn't a decent reason in the game to exclude certain classes from other classes' starting clusters.
- This would also help prevent needing to choose a default tree. Currently, if I were to play as the Druid, I would only have access to the Sorceress' starting nodes, not the Witch's. But with an implementation like this, I could be the Druid and still have access to the big Minion Revive %, Minion Life, and 100+% Minion Damage gated behind the Witch.


Juuuuust a thought (that I totally think you should do). Giving all characters access to all classes' starting nodes is a pretty swell idea. (You are going to do it, right? Right!? RIGHT!?!?)

Welp! Cya later!

Wrecker.
https://www.ForeverExiled.com/: Forever Exiled, A Path of Exile Podcast
Last edited by Wrecker of Days#8485 on May 9, 2026, 8:45:10 PM
Last bumped on May 9, 2026, 8:52:13 PM
That would be nice for an awful lot of things. I don't care about minions, so if instead of 8% spell damage and 8% minion breast size I could choose 12% or even just 10% spell damage it would be a beneficial change.

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