Getting ascendancy points

My most "ascendant" characters have six ascendancy points. I think I had four on my highest character when I first did the labyrinth with a second character and I recall him getting four points after one go on normal. The next character I did it with only got two points on normal and then I did it on cruel for another two points. I later managed to do it on merciless with the first character I did it with to have a total of six points on him. I finally did it for the first time on normal with one of my remaining characters and she immediately got six points. Why do some of my characters immediately get caught up with my highest character while others just get the two points you would expect?

Old chars in standard/hardcore were given a number of points depending on how far the character had progress. It was a one time thing.

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Rhys wrote:

• Characters that were in Cruel or higher automatically had the Normal Labyrinth + Trials completed for them (+2 points).
• Characters that were in Merciless automatically had the Cruel Labyrinth + Trials completed for them (+2 points).
• Characters that had completed Merciless (by killing Malachai) automatically had the Merciless Labyrinth + Trials completed for them (+2 points).

So you could have 0, 2, 4, or 6 points automatically awarded to you, depending on your progress and quest state.

All you have to do for those characters is to complete any difficulty laby to choose your sub-class and get the points owed to you.

Edit: Otherwise, with any other newer characters each laby you run will only grant 2 points each.

Maximum points is 8.
normal/cruel/merciless and endgame lab.
And characters created before labyrinth was in game will get points based on what act they completed before labyrinth was introduced when they complete it first time.
So new characters complete normal get 2.
Older characters doing if first time get 2 times Act they finished previously.
Probably why you got 6 on one character.