Forced and non-synergies between weapon skills and ascendancies.

That's my main question.

You have multiple ascendancies, 3 later on.

But as it is now, invoker vs chayula, invoker has literally built-in synergies with Quarterstaves while Chayula has better luck with the bow.

I think it would make more sense if the Ascendancies would affect the skills you take.

As an example; base Ice Strike would be physical damage so just call it something like "3-way bonk". Invoker could then just take nodes in which they would do the physical damage -> Ice conversion.

This would open up more possibilities into other classes/ascendancies and playstyles.

Now this is a very narrow rundown in how i would like it to work. Maybe more weapons would fix this situation, sure - but the main issue remains; as it is now, there are extremely forced synergies within these weapon skills, while others are almost left in the dust.

This does encourage some very interesting builds that have been popping up like Bleed Witch Hunter Bow and Bow poison Chayulas but i would personally like to stick within my own class.

Ps / offtopic ish; the physical damage abilities on monk, aside from bell, are if not bad, very very niche.