Ritualist-Ascendency Feedback

Hallo GGG,

I want give my feedback on Ritualist - Ascendancy.

Preface: I play a bleeding-Rake build this league (level 89), also this text is a opinion, written in bad english^^



Blood Boil = feels OK, nice added DOT-effect, but vs solo-bosses next to useless because its only works when something dies.



Ritual Sacrifice = feels weak, first of all it just works 1 out of 20 times (bug), the given buffs are mostly useless or even make the gameplay worse.
(f.e. Shroud-walker kills my often because of the teleportation in aoe or ground-effects)
Even if it would work, I get little buffs for 20 seconds,...

Sacrifice your own HP is similar bad

Overall it also took too much time to use the skills.




Charm-tree = it felt already bad, like wow few resistance and shit, but with latest changes to charms
an ascendency - notable +1 charm-slot is just horrible




Ring Tree = Feels Ok, nothing to complain here




And that is the problem over all, even if everything would work as intended ritual sacrifice and charm-shit are just temporal or temporal+random weak buffs, also Blood boil sucks against bosses,
you end up with ring-tree, but this is only act 2 & 3 ascendency-quest.
Maybe this Ascendency is for people who don´t want to do all the ascendency-quest.


Thanks for the hard work :-)

Life recovery is better than charm point.

I feel like Ritualist really shine upon using certain chase items (think of Kalandra Touch), combined with Ingenuity and ascendancy is just extremely powerful, but is not doable for a lot of players due to investment, but the potential is extremely high for Ritualist.


Combining it with rage, and enough life recovery to permanently sustain rage is extremely good, both for bosses and overall clearing speed.

Probably is more of a "rich" people ascendancy, think of it like Trickster and Simplex Amulet (in general). Don't think it will actually benefit for additional buffs, or nerfs, I feel like is in a decent state.

I agree that the ring-tree does benefit from chase items like kalandra touch or Ingenuity. Also hard to do for a normal player like me.

Also i agree that the ring-tree is in a good spot. But the rest ,.... omfg...
like you said even a small passiv like "Life recovery" is better than the notable charm point.

Maybe rework or buff the other trees inside the Ritualist-Ascendency, so they compete with each other.
But for now, i regret to do the 3rd and 4th ascendency quest.