Acolyte of Chayula Buff ideas

Chonk has 5 different branches:

[-] Ravenous Doubts -> Consuming Questions

[-] Chayula's Gift

[-] Reality Rending

[-] Waking Dream (Into the Breach) -> Lucid Dreaming

[-] Embrace the Darkness -> Grasp of the Void / Inner Silence

As of right now, the most used nodes are Reality Rending for the default damage increase for the ascendency and Waking Dream (Into the Breach) for Campaign/Mapping. Consuming Questions had received a buff but it'll be some time before people are able to see how useful it is.

The other nodes, Chayula's Gift & Embrace the Darkness, are severely underwhelming and is making this Ascendency unpopular to play with.

I want to suggest some changes in order to allow Chonk players to have more success with this ascendency:

[-] Chayula's Gift

Current: +10% to Maximum Chaos Resistance | Chaos Resistance is Doubled

Proposal: Channels Chaos Inoculation | Chaos Resistance is converted to All elemental resistance

Why: As most Chonks go for CI which leaves the current ascendency node worthless.. This proposed change allows Chonk to get the benefit of CI while giving Chonk players the option to use Chaos uniques without jeopardizing their build. Chaos uniques give Chaos resistance, so having Chaos resistance be converted to All elemental resistance should give more options to Chonks to utilize one or more Chaos uniques.

[-] Embrace the Darkness -> Grasp of the Void / Inner Silence

Current: You have no Spirit | Base Maximum Darkness is 100 | Damage taken is Reserved from Darkness before being taken from Life or Energy Shield | Darkness Reservation lasts for 10 seconds

Proposal: (1) This skill should be scrapped and given a new identity. I suggest reworking Waking Dream (Into the Breach) to become 0.1 Grim Feast to give Energy Shield restoration and overflow maximum Energy Shield from Remnants.

(2) Remove the Chaos Damage remnant from the current Waking Dream (Into the Breach) and use it to provide a meaningful rework for Embrace the Darkness that gives either a Chaos damage buff or Chaos damage skill/aura.

For anyone reading this, I'd like to ask for your help in what could be a reworked Embrace the Darkness that gives either a Chaos damage buff or Chaos damage skill/aura. Please and thank you



Last bumped on Apr 11, 2025, 1:25:41 PM
I forgot to add... One of the reasons why Embrace the Darkness is underwhelming is due to the fact that it removes your Spirit. Monk heavily relies on Spirit skills like Herald of Thunder/Ice, Wind Dancer, and etc. Selecting this node is a descendency in a way just to get a little bit more survivability at the cost of valuable skills in damage, clear, and better survivability.
bump.. Looking for any input from anybody..

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