IGN reveals one of the new Witch Ascendancy Classes: The Elementalist

Again, will triggered spell by CwDT/CoC/CoMK/CwS trigger "Mastermind of Discord"?
(sound like it's not)

I'm pretty disappointed with the elementalist since every path is multi-elemental. Most of these talents in general feel kinda underwhelming compared to what other classes are getting.

Was hoping it would be mono of each elemental and one multi-elemental, hopefully the last witch and scion will be better since I feel forced to play a templar now for staves or shadow for CI.

I have no idea why people keep saying all path are for multi-element caster. "Shaper of Desolation" is obviously boosting single element. You can use only one element to apply all chill, shock and ignite (no frozen, so if you wanna get all four, you know what should be used).

Also, it said "use a skill" but not "hit". So you can simply use flame dash on cold caster, lightning warp on fire caster, and ice nova to apply curses on lightning caster. It's not actually boosting multi-ele. It's just forcing you to press more buttons if you wanna receive a massive bonus. Which is great.

BTW, the 100% increased ele dmg for 4s for every 10s can be considered as 40% increased ele dmg with some deviation.

Elementalist looks awesome, but now I am sad that it is witch start position,.. since elementalist I think works well with non-spell damage as well (not a spellist) and now be limited to start at witch. Love the ascendancy classes, but I though to enable the ascendancy to the two adjacent classes (aka shadow and templar) makes more sense (so that templar can have mar/templar/witch. Witch can have templar/witch/shadow, scion would be odd one out, so she wont have any of her own, but can only have of the dual stat classes ex. int/dex so templar/shadow/dualist)
Thinking in this dierction because I want elemetalist but dont want to go through all those es and/or spell damage nodes.

Eh strike 2 on the witch. Come on GGG, I want one thing and one thing only for the witch. Stun Immunity while on low life! Oh yes give it to us. Please make that happen!

Disappointed. Hope the 3rd witch ascendancy class is much better for self casters.

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pneuma wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

what about all the witch casters that people have atm that they have spent 100s, maybe 1000s of hours developing for up to 3 years now? Do they not represent what the witch is about? If theres nothing in these subclasses for them then its an absolute disaster.

Those actual characters (with gear, experience, and so on) are in legacy leagues so they don't matter. I'm sure they'll still be playable, but legacy leagues aren't where the most up-to-date version of the game is played and it's not where development/balancing happens.

that is simply unacceptable


edit: to be clear...

every single ranger build I have ever made would get 100% benefit from one of the ranger classes

same for every single duelist, every single marauder, every single shadow Ive ever made, I dont make templars but virtually every elemental attacker or caster Ive ever made would get something from his subclasses.

literally 0 witches i have ever made would take one of these witch classes. It is different to every other single class they have shown in that it is universally awful rather than universally good. And no I dont accept for a minute that every build Ive made on a witch now needs to move and I ditch those characters. They need to change the witch to actually be good for builds that witches are used for, they managed that with every other set of subclasses shown so far its in no way ok that witch becomes an exception.

This subclass is terrible and needs 2 more nodes that are good for single element casters, good as in they compete with the best nodes shadow and templar have for mono elemental casters.

Too gimmicky for my tastes.

The only subclass is the necro.the rest are rather weak for my tastes

Very dissapointing.

I was honestly expecting some sort of spell damage/crit/power charge kind of subclass but this is so bad in my opinion compared to the shadow assassin tree.

Also, I love playing melee and to be honest witch's two shown subclasses have nothing for me and my CI coe crit reave witch.

Necromancer subclass is at best ehh compared to shadow's assassin subclass for crit attack based chars.

Fuk even if i was going wand i would go with shadow which is kinda fuked up in my opinion.

Honestly, much dissapoint.
I am very sad.

Sorry for my rant.
Thanks