Development Manifesto: Ascendancy Changes

So relieved you didn't further gut the assassin. Omg.

This is the buildup before GGG takes a fatty shit all over other classes?

Nice to see the Assassin changes working nicely for the style it is. Guardian...surprised at the buff it got, but won't complain about it. Hierophant got a complete rework that it needed and I like the line with Arcane Surge and the like...can give options to those who might not want to even play with totems. Good stuff.

god, hiero got the buff!!!!!!

Let's gooo!

So excited to try out the changes.

<3 GGG

Pretty suprised that guardian didn't get nerfed in terms of mana reservation to es. Hope the appropriate items will get a nerf though as llrf Guardian just nullifies so much content already and this will only make it stronger...

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Eddyon wrote:

Pretty suprised that guardian didn't get nerfed in terms of mana reservation to es. Hope the appropriate items will get a nerf though as llrf Guardian just nullifies so much content already and this will only make it stronger...

I play a regular llrf guardian and I don't think my ES is too high at all. It's not like you can rely on instant life flasks, so your ES pool needs to be larger to make it fair. GGG nerfed ES so hard this is actually the only ES build I've done since the nerf. The other one turned out so bad I gave up on it. So if anything, they should come up with ways to buff ES so that it becomes more viable to more builds without making it overpowered again.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Remaining Class Reveals
We're aiming to reveal all 19 Ascendancy Classes by mid-next-week when the 3.2.0 Patch Notes are posted. We'll update the list in this article as they are shown.

Surprise us!

Break with tradition and reveal the Scion's ascendancy changes this week rather than as a final reveal mid-next week after all the others.

Sure, it'll give us more time to discuss about the Scion's baby-ascendancies and there'll undoubtedly be a fair amount of griping and whining involved (at least if the design philosophy of start-point jumping being so highly valuable that the inherited ascendancy effects have to be very weak in comparison to the parent classes still holds sway, since this is not a view generally shared by players), but realistically, if GGG has done a good job so all 18 baby ascendancies are attractive rather than a mere handful of them, then the Ascendant will be the most complex class of all the Ascendancies and it would be courteous to the players to reveal it in good time so they have time to theorycraft and plan builds before league start, whereas other characters' ascendancies, which are much simpler, don't need as much time for players to grasp the implications and limitations of.

And since GGG will of course have made all 18 attractive this time around since practice makes perfect, it follows that you'll pretty much have to reveal the Ascendant soon(tm).

Right? :-D

hierophant op, nice

Buff deadeye plz +2 projectiles