Ascendancies next league

the only thing that prop up trickster and occ now are the dot helpers, and those are being pruned as well, so at least trickster got to keep some of his sustain AND he can still pick up Wicked Ward as needed, whereas occ has very little left.

As with other ascendancies, they're being pushed into a zhp high dps corner, except that DOTs will have a harder and harder time cutting the mustard under this model. Even as a mob is dying, if it's not insta dead, it can still oneshot you and there's nothing you can do about it (gains on hit, leech, fortify on hit, etc).

I'm expecting some Raider buffs. At this point, it simply does not worth picking up raider just for some free frenzy charges or onslaught. If you want both, you need to skip phasing/elemental ailments immunity.

Elemental Ailments immunity should be split to all 3 "Avatar" passives (when phasing/max FC/onsalught).

Raider buff is a meme a this point. People are looking forit for so long I wont be suprised it will be forgotten this time as well.
Looking at GGG buffs/reworks in recent years they probably will want to make Raider into some archetype (currnetly it doesnt fit into any of archetypes. Its just "do whatever you want" character.
So they will buff it when they find archetype for it and they will want to push such archetype that league (just like they reworked hierophant while adding brands)

Will 3.13 be the league with archetype for Raider? We will see.

I dont think Raider itself is bad, but everytime i PoB a Raider build, i struggle to get damage on a reasonable gear.

Seems like the general idea is to have her be an "elemental attack" build, but its quite hard to find the damage AND not get oneshot by any blue mob, which bypasses your dodge, atleast for me.

So the thing Raider is supposed to do is just pretty weak/hard to pull off right now.

I just hope that Trickster finally gets killed off for good and that Elementalist will be less of a "golems or bust" ascendancy.

Shes not bad. Shes just worse than other ascendencies. In the past it was ascendency for those who want to be rly fast. Nowadays Deadeye or even Pathfinder can be better at it. I would preffer to see Raider as more melee-focused Ranger (while Deadeye being more ranged focued) so some rework to make it viable pick for melee builds would be nice.

Maybe something for Strike Skills, as those also have a hard time compared to the bonk meta.

Since Deadeye has chain and pierce from ascendency, Raider could have Ancestral Call.

AC needs baselining for strike skills, it'd be hot AF if raider got it for free though

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NexiieQT wrote:

Did you forget about 3.7 Cyclone league and Starforge?

No? Everyone I knew in 3.7 crafted elite 1h foils for cyclone. I could be wrong, but are you saying that 2h was mathematically better for offense or defense that league with cyclone?

And I don't know what you're trying to say with Starforge. That it was good and useable for a long time? That doesn't invalidate dual wielding.

I remember 7-Link fortify weapons in 3.7, then they got hit with that nerf stick.

That was back when the multi-mod craft was good.

Slayer, Berserker and Pathfinder could use some love.
Wish Scion had something more original to it, but it's not her role, i guess. I'll wait for POE2 before ascendancies get a hard rework.
As next league will most likely be atlas-centric, some cyclone slayer could come up again, to showcase that new commmunity?-driven cyclone mtx (i so wish it wasn't cyclone....there's just too many for it and other skills need love too).

I'll try to make a meme build around "trigger socketed skills" craft.