Herald of Purity Skill Reveal

This is awkward...
Why forcing the Guardian to get Minion Ascendancies? We have a Necro for it.

When you think about Heralds you think about added damage, on hit or on death effects.
And now we get a minion summoner herald?

Also it worries me the way you worded the new ascension rework... it sounds as it is built around this skill instead of being built around a complete theme...

Dual-wielding The Scourge claws with a Dominating Blow Guardian anyone? With Animate Guardian for double Guardian shenanigans and extra auras? I can see that happen now.

From the beginning this seems horrible tacky. Like the skill is being tacked onto a guardian that is support oriented. Also GGG please stop forcing us to use things certain ways. I get it. You want to polish your game. But to do that would require a technical overhaul in terms of how your item back end works. Stop the weirdness and just let us the players determine what we use with what as well as let us define our limits and not you. I get it it's also your baby. But there is a point where a game's identity isn't strictly defined by the game developer anymore but rather by the community. I say let the community figure out how to play the game and let us create.

Players should decide for themselves which class works best with which skill, having an ascendency that references a skill directly takes away that level of customization.

Looks kewl

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The_Risen wrote:

So are the other heralds and, just in case, hoards of other trashy ON KILL EFFECTS from gear and passives being buffed to work on bosses in this patch?

I mean, it's only expected for 3-4 patches after bosses hp got buffed 10.000%.

This is very true, especially for us people that don't have/like the highest damage builds; unique items granting charges and curses granting charges in (multi stage) boss fights where you need them the most are never there. Izaro fights with charges? Nope! I would even be happy with a rework that removed the on kill effect and replaced it with a ''% chance on hit against the same target'' so that if you 1 shot mob packs you don't get them but will get them against bosses or tougher foes when you actually need them. Also; you removed spell leech from berzerker, but the only viable spell leech (for low damage builds) is still on something called warlords which doesn't seem very thematic either; easy solution would be to remove attack leech from the curse and rename it warlocks : ).

To respond to a lot of the comments here. People don't like the fact that this skill will be mandatory for phys scaling builds and adds minions even if you don't use them since this tries to pidgeon hole you in certain directions or builds. Let me comment on that; this skill is an ADDITION to the game; it doesn't remove the options that are already there; its extra. The teased guardian changes bound to skills have me worried too though as I can see how this can limit/remove previous build options.

So, basically GGG converting strong defence stacking class, which called Guardian, who are used now by people for bossing, slow defensive play style(yeah not everybody likes 4k glasses for 24/7 burials with a hh), with lots of wise way to play via int/str/mana stacking for rf/howa/..., and which can be support for supports(because he can beef them up with high mana pool)+warcry rota to a guy who kills in melee to spawn some adds that float around? Yeah that's totally makes sense.


Two ascendancy notables for one skill? Right now only "Harmony of Purpose" in the bad state tbh, and as Guardian main, with lots of 100s Guardians in HC leagues i dislike what im seeing right now.


Yeah i guess GGG should know better what to do with their classes....They did pretty "good" job so far with Saboteur,Hierophant,Deadeye.


Not sure if there is any spot left on my back for new knife.

To be honest, looks like shit.

Agree with Blazedance.