Pathfinder's "Contagious Contamination" ascension feels wrong and bad

As my second character i created Pathfinder.

From first ascension i took "Contagious Contamination" perk and soon after that i got spirit gem from quest. We can pick "Herald of Plague" that does exactly the same thing that ascendancy, but better (spread radius is bigger and also hinders and we can put supports in it). So ascendancy feels like get 30 spirit in a lot of ways - mean i got bad feeling about it, when i understood, that i can get just use Herald to replace this ascendacy point. Because of it perk doesn't feel like you get something unique (and i really think that ascension should feel this way).

Also the problem is that i can't skip it, because it on the way to "Overwhelming Toxicity". Can you rework it please. At least much better is: you got Herald of Plague skill that costs 0 spirit. Or even rework to completely new effect.

After all the game is great. Thanks for your work!

Somewhat of a Necro post. But I think if they just gave you Herald of Plague as a class based spirit skill instead it would be so much better. You could add area to it, it would scale the base radius aswell. The fact that it is just so much worse than the Herald because of the things many people have mentioned aswell. 1.5m vs 1.8m is also pretty big difference and imagine if you would be able to support it with one of the silly area of effect supports it would almost be a decent 2 pointer.