Acolyte of Chayula

This ascendancy class makes no sense at the current state of the game. With NO phys or Chaos skills (for Quarterstaff) you dont have the scaling you want. Therefor you cant build around dealing phys/chaos dmg, which makes this ascendancy sort of worthless.

To go even deeper, there isnt an option to put chaos / %chaos dmg / %converted chaos dmg on your weapon (quartrestaff). But there is a LOT of ele scaling?? Why isnt there chaos scaling, we even get the ascendancy that is ALL about chaos??

Then you get Mantra of Destruction, i dont know why this even exists in its current state. You need to get 10 combo, sure fine, for a SINGLE dmg increased hit? And then to benefit from its bonus you need kill, for a 6 second minor dmg increase? I have no idea how this is useable. Compair that to Charged staff, which sure consumes power charges but it stays for 6-18+seconds. Why is Mantra only 1 hit, its such a letdown.

Overall Acolyte of Chayula is a letdown, it doesnt scale, it has 0 synercy with the current Monk/quarterstaff skills and the skill that has some potential is just straight up bad (Mantra)

Okay rant over, game overall is fun but needs some fixes for sure
Cheers and thanks GGG for PoE2!!

you dont need to play it with a staff you know

I get that, and thats great and all, build diversity.

I guess it forces me to play ED/Cont spell based, cos there isnt any phys/chaos (melee) skill that is dex/int based at the moment.

And the Mantra thing its something else, its just bad (also you need a quarterstaff here, so the attempt to have a quarterstaff chaos build was made)

Well you don't need to do phys/chaos damage.
The extra chaos works with all damage types.

I saw someone play it with poison bow, seems pretty powerful.

But i agree mantra of destruction needs work.

Thats not all that makes the Ascendancy useless.

Leech is Physical damage only. Monk does near all Ele damage so you get almost no Leech. But that's not the main issue. You spend 2 Ascendancy points to get Mana Leech as "Instant" when Leech in POE2 is gained over 1s.... So you save 1s....

Waiting 2 years for this game and its very disappointing

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melkoriii#5637 wrote:

Thats not all that makes the Ascendancy useless.

Leech is Physical damage only. Monk does near all Ele damage so you get almost no Leech. But that's not the main issue. You spend 2 Ascendancy points to get Mana Leech as "Instant" when Leech in POE2 is gained over 1s.... So you save 1s....

Waiting 2 years for this game and its very disappointing

The red/blue floating stuff you pick up with the other node count as leech. So free life and mana leech just by walking. It's kinda amazing in a boss fight.

Problem is they appear too far from the character and in small arena they actually appear outside the walls/doors.

Iam playing full phys meele monk with staff and I can confirm, its difficult. I can do lvl 4 maps now and I basically use only staff basic attack (19k dps) + bell. All other skills feels bad. For some reason spells / skills deal only like 50% dmg of my basic weapon attack.

Ascendency feels super irrelevant. I noticed absolutelly nothing when I got 4 points. Extra chaos dmg is nice, but not very consistent. All monk chaos skills feel super bad.

All in all, I regret going for Acolyte monk. I expected meele chaos warrior...and all I do is using basic weapon attack.

I will try mace as soon as I get enough strengt..but..this was super disapointing.