POE 2 ascendancy respec

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Palagachev#5402 wrote:

I actually disagree with you on this one.
Your ascendancy IS your class, the base class is just a starting point. LE had the right idea by making it permanent.
It will be like asking to switch from a marauder to a ranger trough an ultimatum run.
It's a good change in my opinion, making the ascendancy permanent. There is no wrong choice in terms of ascendancy, all have power, it comes down to how you use it.

I dunno if it's like that though. Monk's elemental ascendancy is kind of "in your face" obvious choice, with everything being clear and visible to pick, skills and passives. Then you have the Chayula variety, with the passives being spread as if someone sneezed them through a fan, with melee skills to pick being limited to not-so-obvious options (since the majority of the quarterstaff ones elemental focused).

I mean, really, pick the Chayula ascendancy and then, looking at the skills and passives on offer for monk/quarterstaff, make a viable build that compares efficency-wise with the elemental monk. Better yet, don't. Chaos melee build for monk needs support skills that don't show up by default and can utilize... what? Wind Gale, Spinny-spinny or Flicker Strike?

As it is, some classes are favored over others, or let's say, better developed. Just earlier I was reading someone's rant about the "only viable build for warriors" relying on a bugged skill mechanic. As such, maybe precisely because of this, Ascendancy respec should be allowed in EA, while the game's being enriched with more skills, passives and more weapons and while the existing ones are being refined to match the game environment and mechanics.

I don't mind starting a 2nd monk now and going again through that very fun and not-at-all skewed towards ranged classes ascendancy trial. Or a 2nd warrior, assuming I won't be happy with my first pick there. But it is tedious. And the ascendancy trials are still frustrating for melee players. More so than for ranged. Combine those two, consider picking an ascendancy that looks fancy but proves to be even more tedious to perfect than the trials were to pass and think again about how it's fine to have the ascenancies locked-in this early.

Monks ascendancy for chaos is absolute garbage, level 70 and I'm thinking of deleting it because there is no way to respec to invoker. I know its early access and it may change. But for now I just turned me off of wanting to invest more time