Two Pathfinder nodes ARE HOT TRASH (sorry, clickbait) need a rework IMO.

Okay, so to keep it short--Pathfinder's master alchemist and master distiller nodes are godawful, and nature's boon (30% increased effect of magic utility flasks on you) is kind of a pigeonhole node considering it's the only one that leads up to master alchemist.

Master alchemist basically solves no issues. If you can't sustain a flask when you actually swig the charges, you run the risk of missing twice on master alchemist and having the flask fall off. Furthermore, simply removing elemental ailments upon a flask use without an immunity window means that ground effects completely negate this, along with bosses that have rapid re-application of ailments (think Tul's avalanche). In other words, both of the things it's *supposed* to do, it fails at.

Problem: Both of master distiller's effects do not enable additional builds since they don't really function all that effectively.

Solution: concentrate master alchemist's sustaining power into one flask, create an elemental ailment immunity grace window.

The remake:
-Your leftmost utility flask is always in use.
-You are ailment immune if you used a flask recently.

So, for a four-pointer, a mini-mageblood, including on unique flasks (though if that's a deal-breaker, just make it for one utility flask--super onslaught might be fun).

Now, as for master distiller--while it looks absolutely awful (and it is), I think it isn't too far off.

Problem: Master distiller uses utility flasks whose charges cannot be sustained at the rate they're consumed, and depletes flask charges when not attacking by burning them on travel skills.

Solution: use the life flask for concoction effects instead.

Remake:
- Non-travel attack and spell skills you use consume 3 life flask charges.
- Gain 150% increased critical strike chance while affected by a diamond flask. - Your elemental damage penetrates 20% resistances while affected by a bismuth flask.
- Gain 25% of non-chaos damage as chaos damage while affected by an amethyst flask.

Also one other feature: directly connect it to master alchemist so that there's an alternative route to that node aside from through nature's boon, for endgame scenarios in which you wind up using a life flask and two unique flasks.

Thoughts?

Man, Pathfinder's non-chaos options made me sad often times.

I love Viper Strike (no Mamba) PF and I like Toxic Rain PF. I play at least one PF per league.

Master Alchemist is completely useless in my view, and Master Destiller is worse; worse than a small ascendancy note - I'd rather take two small ones instead...

I wish
- Master Surgeon were toggable (once I have solved the flask charge gain, what is the point of periodically hitting space bar? I want it active all the time, there is no decision to be made, so, why do I have to press constantly a button?)
- Nature's Boon gets 10-20% effect for unique flasks (I usually use two of them, this node is therefore mediocre and reduces to something like 15% movement speed plus a little bit more - better than other options however).
- Nature's Reprisal takes into account that skills like Viper Strike (no mamba) cannot hit often enough to sustain 15 wither stacks (The note is still very good with Withering Step at least).
- Master Alchemist and Master Desiller gets replaced by the old Raider Quarz/Phasing line or Onslaught line (Onslaught would likely be too powerful).

Pathfinder should allow playing a skill such as Wild Strike or Ice Shot. Currently, in my view, it does not, except you make elemental damage do poison. You can select 3 usable ascendancy notables and 5 ascendancy small points for non-chaos...

And I have not found any way to make Master Desiller appealing... without some convoluted special build, it simply does not do anything, or do I overlook something? It even does not work together with Mageblood, since you must not use the 60-70% flask effect enchant... How am I supposed to generate 9 flask charges per second extra on top of funding the underlying flask? Despite that using Diamond, Bismuth and Amethyst together seems a bit weird. What is the application apart from some shenanigan build?

I really would like to see, that PF gets some love for the non-chaos notables. The portrait alone is S+ Tier! She should be seen more often!

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Probiotenmann#3415 wrote:

I really would like to see, that PF gets some love for the non-chaos notables. The portrait alone is S+ Tier! She should be seen more often!

A man of culture I see =P.

What do you mean, the picture looks like ellen degeneras and owen wilson did the fusion dance.

Taste is different, whatever.

The two ascendancy notables are in my view underwhelming at best in the majority of cases and existence of non-niche, non-chaos skill based PF would make the ascendancy more enjoyable.

This.

The thing is, the nodes just don't really even fulfill the spirit of what they're there to do. And it isn't like it'd take too much implementation to change them.