Can we fix ascendant?

So I don't think anyone needs a long winded explanation but, Ascendant and Scion have needed changes since forever. Its not to say its a weak class thanks to its mobility but rather I feel that it doesn't live up to its class fantasy of Jack of all trades master of none.

In fact I feel like a lot of builds can often do what Scion/Ascendant does but better. I would prefer next league their tree either gets overhauled or their mechanics get improved.

An idea I sort of thought of is to maybe give the Ascendant the ability to combine two class fantasy's. Except instead of with these half ascendancies how about allowing them like in Crucible to combine two ascendancy trees.

Like say you want to play a death knight build, a build that combines minions, spells and tankyness. So you do your first lab and then you get to choose necromancer and juggernaut and you get a unique tree that fits the class fantasy of improving your minions while increasing your damage resistances. It won't increase your minions damage beyond what a necromancer can do and neither will it make you tankier than a juggernaut but you can combine both fantasy's to make a build that relies on both mechanics and makes good use out of both. Like giving notables such as every time you gain an endurance charge your minions gain a frenzy charge, or every time you block your minions become enraged gaining bonus movement speed, attack speed and aggro better.

I know this would be ridiculously complicated and it would make a balancing nightmare for POE devs around each combined tree, but I feel the current tree is so meh for them that they have almost nothing to compete with other classes now because of their reworks.

When is PoE going to add on Ascendencies ontop of Ascendency

I want to play Jugg and then branch into another ascendency ontop of that like
Armor Jugg with 12 more nodes
Life Jugg with 12 more nodes
Str Jugg with 12 more nodes

so what im saying is i want to see ontop of the 3 ascendcies u get currently, more ascendencies

I think this will help the game and will add exponential variety and fun/replayability

thoughts?

upvote pls if u think its a good idea

I think its a bit much considering we already have skill tree on top of skill tree and now weapon skill trees. Its a bit too much no?

mmm

Ascendant has at least 2 things she does better than others:

1) Aura stackers and some stat stackers (because number of passive points are king)

2) Builds that abuse the layout of the central area in the passive tree (due to all the jewel sockets there)

Mobility on the tree is good and it is what makes ascendant reasonable but it doesn't make up for the half ascendancies. Attribute and Aura stacking can be achieved by multiple other builds often better so. Since Guardian gets way more benefits to aura stacking and providing additional benefits from Auras. As for Attributes, nobody stacks int better than witch, str better than Marauder or Dex better than ranger. If we are talking a variety of stats maybe but there would be no point in doing so as there is only a bare handful of builds that abuse multiple stat stacking.

As for Gem slots yes that works but the problem is Gems in general are rng and meme worthy in their benefits, every other class gets more power with 10 skill points than Scion does even with Gem slots. Like yeah I guess its helpful but it doesn't exactly remove the main issue that they have to use gems to make up for power difference and it rarely does make up for the difference.

sucked since the might of the meeks dont fit in the middle. that was like the only thing she had going for some unique interventions

That gem is pretty cool but again its like made for Scion and not really anyone else. Which is a shame because I would like to see more like it in future.

If anyone has any suggestions I would be happy to discuss them

She isn't the flashiest loudest standout. She just blended seamlessly into the shadows so that's how you didn't notice she was above average in terms of popularity according to poe.ninja. This means there are still a significant number of players who found a way to use the class.