Chayula Monk ascendency is completely bricked.

Darkness is a poor poor substitute to spirit, spirit on our gear doesn't even scale the darkness up so it's a completely bricked stat. The damage reduction is a joke.

There's a mana leech node, cool, monks don't actually mana leech without it being on a piece of gear via a stat. On top of that the node is broken.

There's into the breach which could be cool, but it's absolutely impossible to build stacks of the chaos damage since stacks don't refresh as you pick up a new flame...


Into the Breach also gets put into your skill gem slots which I thought was really cool... Then you realize NO support gems fit it (hello darkness my old friend)

The passive % chance for extra chaos damage is just fine.

We don't even have chaos abilities to use with our quarterstaves

Ggg plz

yeah its pretty bad. i dont understand what their thought process was with this ascendancy (if there was one) darkness is garbage. into te breach is lame. mana leech sucks. life leech sucks. i see people using chaos bows for this build and thats lame to me, i wanna play a monk not a ranger. from what ive been told the chaos trial can allow you to switch ascendancy. im gonna have to try that

Same goes for 70% of Infernalist ascendancies and Blood Mage also seems bad.
Overall Ascendancies tend to either seem overly complicated or just plain bad. I know plenty that don't even want to ascend.
Considering how brutal the later trials are its even more of a slap in the face when you get rewarded with crap.

The fact that there isn't a single leech node on the tree (as far as I know), leech synergies seem very underpowered right now. The only nodes I can find, at least in the top area, are all mana leech improvements, and not actual mana leech. I think there should be a couple of nodes for leech-focused ascendancies can "get going" without specific gear.

I think leech is probably vastly down tuned since its hard to balance. But yeah some minor leech would make sense.
Especially on lets say infernalist that has like 3 different ascendancies that all causes self harm damage.

You can actually put Clarity, Vitality, Herbalism, Cannabalism etc into "Into the Breach" for free and the tooltips inidicate they work without Into the Breach getting a spirit cost.

I am 92 on my Acolyte and yes it needs changes

- flames need to spawn closer to you
- the gem needs to work with area, cooldown, duration scaling
- flames should spawn in a cone infront of you rather than a big circle around you because most of them spawn behind you or beside you were you never path during maps

Darkness needs to be reworked. Giving up all spirit for that is a hilarious cost.

Mana leech node needs to give you 10% manaleech for Spells (similiar to how Blood Mage has lifeleech for spells)

Chaos resistance node is very good.