[Ascendancy QOL] Make ascendancy respect available at lowest trial.

Preface :

Title says it all. In POE 1, the player is able to quickly change ascendancy by running the normal lab. It takes 15 minutes at max and it allows players to check out different ascendancies.

After seeing the sheer amount of content added and the anticipation of bugs which will ensue because of this, I believe it's paramount for the players to be able to change ascendancy whenever they want without completing the trial again, especially for early access. I just can't stress it enough.

Problem :

In POE 2, the player has to complete the highest tier of trials to change into a different ascendancy. This means that if I want to test out the "full weight" of an ascendancy with all 8 points, the player has to kill "Zarohk, The Temporal" or "The Trialmaster". Which are pinnacle bosses and a run almost takes an hour or even more for a normal player. Assuming they're even able to complete it outside of obvious RMT account sellers/boosters.

The player is basically unable to change an ascendancy and expecting people to roll a whole new character is just monitor punching levels of infuriating. I have much, much stronger words but the post will get removed, so I won't use them.

Solution :

Make it so that the player can change the ascendancy after running the lowest levels of the trial. Ideally, there shouldn't be a need for it as the players are already defeating a bosses which are harder than even the "Arbiter of Ash" and if the player does that and has "earned the right for rare tablets", they've certainly earned the right to change ascendancy classes whenever they wish. After all, they've murdered time itself OR they've murdered chaos itself.
Nuanced take on campaign skip :

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3931391
Last edited by zintac2020#6481 on May 23, 2026, 10:01:49 PM
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