Chaos Inoculations does not work with any of the Chaos Witch Ascendencies
Hi GGG!
Love the early access game and been having a blast with Path of Exile 2. I'd like to give it a solid 8/10 and am looking forward for more content! In saying this, I would also like to put my feedback in running a Witch Chaos Build from start of Act 1 through to the End Game T15 Waystones, as well as alert the developers of the Chaos Inoculation discepency. Act 1 and Act 2 Chaos spells are extremely high investment with low outcome. Essence Drain and Contagion are well-balanced and don't need to be touched. It feels very good to proc on multiple enemies and the synergy makes sense. Unfortunately, this is the END of Chaos Spell Synergy "Profane Ritual" needs a complete rework as it takes a single corpse and makes a small stationary aoe curse resulting with minimal damage improvement; add to the fact that if you had built for chaos, your damage would DoT. New players must use "damage over time" spells in the early game and wait for corpses. This is not a good spell by any means, and that added power charge cannot be used by any Chaos spell. Dark Effigy is a good candidate for power charges, however, once again I should stress that it does not synergize with Profane Ritual or Blasphemy. The chaos witch mid-game should not be two curses, with one terrible curse that takes too long to proc. One has to rely purely on defenses, until they get then Blasphemy/Hexblast WAAAY into late Act 3, to which most Chaos Witches will start doing end game content with. Which leads me to the topic of this thread. Chaos Inoculation. In order to LEVEL UP Chaos spells. We get our first look at Chaos Innoculation, surrounded by Chaos Witch pathways. It has to come to my attention that Chaos is woefully under-represented in the Ascendency Tree. Both Blood Mage AND Infernalist COST Life. Every node on the ascendency tree either consumes life, self damages through life, or get buffed through Maximum Life. As a Chaos focused witch, defense in the form of Energy Shields are a must. Until other defense options are buffed, ES is the closest skill tree path way for Witches. Chaos nodes are also closely linked to ES, so to see CI absolutely not work with "Witch Ascendency" had me flabbergasted. Perhaps just add a few tweaks to the Infernalist build could be done. Blood Mage should be as it intended to be, in which Life is used to cast magic. Infernalist can have a CI focus through the fiery minion and perhaps even Devil form if there is a pathway for it to be used with just 1 Life. As of now... Chaos Inoculation has either an unused Demon form or a self immolation pathway to which neither is beneficial. But like I said though! Great game! I look forward to the updates Last bumped on Jan 28, 2025, 2:28:48 AM
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I've tried ES/C and soon gave up on it because even with all the chaos damage nodes taken, the damage output was complete shite compared to practically everything else I've tried before (and after).
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