Phrecia is great.

I know there is a lot of negativity around at the moment. Phrecia however has been a great event. It would not of taken much more to get it launchable as a full league. I've tried out 5 of the ascendancies so far and it has been a lot of fun. Could easily play a lot longer trying out some of the other ones.

The idol system is also interesting. I think other than the UI of hording the idols, it is pretty good. Not as polished as the atlas passives, but has been something interesting to interact with. In particular, it felt like it was quite good for starting mapping, where I think the idols were a bit stronger very early on. It may be that after that they are not quite as powerful as the determinism of the atlas through middle stages, but then by the sound of it extremely powerful with combinating at later stages. I haven't gotten that far with testing them.

The map progression feels a bit weird, not getting directly rewarded for completing maps and Maven invitations. That is one that isn't quite working, but it is only a minor thing.

I think it is integrating well with the settlers town. Settlers felt a bit bland after a certain point with no real changes to the endgame. Combining with Phrecia gives it a bit more interest for me with some new things to interact with beyond just building the town. I think the lower town building prices are better as well, because building the town repeatedly gets a bit tedious. Having things available slightly quicker fits in better with it being useful.

Mobs also seem relatively well balanced at the moment. Haven't played much t17 recently, so cant coment on those mods, but the other monster seem to be a bit more balanced after a lot of nerfing of certain mobs since archnemisis and the difficult buff that passed over the early acts and went into maps.

No real complaints about Phrecia, excpet maybe it is not long enough to have a go at all the ascendancies. Feels like there is more to try out than settlers, necro/settlers.

I also really enjoy Phrecia. Im hoping they will add the Ascendancies to core.

How's your builds going? Antiquarian looks fun?

So far I tried Surfcaster in trade league. Then Wildspeaker, Herald, Bog shaman and Polyheist in SSF HC.

All have been pretty fun.

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Great to hear! Excited to try more ascendancies myself.