Druid Ascendancy
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Guys, where is Ascen to upgrade our Shape Shifting Druid more yet? It will be as 3rd ascen or not?
Last bumped on Dec 7, 2025, 5:42:24 AM
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" We don't even know what is in current ones. But if you say it's not druid themed i agree druid ascedency for now looks generic, boring and nothing druid related stuff. Unless shaman is just a shaman/totem/ele oriented.. We should get shapeshift and minion/companion oriented one, but we have so generic prophet.. instead of a wild heart or alpha wolf or smh. |
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I guess GGG doesn't want u to go Druid if u're going to play pure Shape Shifter. Maybe Warrior for bear, Monk or something else for Wolf and maybe some Sorc stuff for Wyvern.
We'll have to see what the actual notes are, but I'd guess they are more hybrid oriented. /edit: Best is probably Deadeye Shape Shifter, lets be real :D PoE2 0.3 Character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abyss/character/Sadaukar-2191/Acidic_Sadaukar PoE2 0.3 PC performance tweaks: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3852015 OS: CachyOS (Arch Linux btw. <3) Last edited by Sadaukar#2191 on Dec 5, 2025, 11:19:33 AM
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" I agree. The Druid ascendancies do not feel very Druidic at all. It's a missed opportunity. Let's bank on that third ascendancy being the real one! |
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" It's a pattern with POE 2. Almost all Ascendancies in POE 2 seem more general. GGG is somehow stubbornly set on the whole "diversification" of builds. They want you to use multiple different skills, that supposedly synergies with other skills. The irony of all this is that the top performing builds are exactly the opposite of that philosophy. I don't know if they did this deliberately, as in some devs' biases seeped into the game design and they made their favorite things work and stand out, and made everything else as unappealing and as much of a slog as possible. Or, they just failed at whatever they wanted to do. As much as I enjoy aspects of the game, classes, builds, and intended play styles simply feel off. This game seems to be in a huge identity crisis, it simply does not know what it wants to be. |
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" The issue being that almost all skills are extremely limited in what they can synergize with. I mean something like flame wall is conceptually cool, it ignites all projectiles (not just spell projectiles) that pass through it but it's practically useless and very difficult to play around. Eg, it's not like a deadeye is going to bother taking it. |
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Druid won't get an ascendancy that specializes on shapeshifting for the same reason Witch doesn't have Necromancer ascendancy.
The philosophy is that ascendancies in PoE2 are more versatile and don't force you to play certain archetypes. The 3rd ascendancy (which isn't coming in 0.4) may provide some more general bonuses that happen to benefit shapeshifting and/or summons. |
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" If only GGG would wake up and realize that this philosophy doesn't work, at least not the way they intend. Let's take the witch and necromancer archetype. They do not want to have players always choose the same thing regarding minions, because that's the only and best option. Cool, on paper that is valid and understandable, but the human mind does not work like that. There is a reason almost all video games in existence have some kind of clearly defined character archetype. Having choice is good, having too much choice is bad; it leads to choice paralysis and often people go for the familiar things because they do not want to think about it. As a result, most Witch minion builds in POE 2 look exactly the same; sure some people experiment, but at the end of the day 99% of minion builds are exactly the same (GGG didn't fix the "problem"). Having a clear archetype with a degree of choice within is the best option. When all your classes are jack of all trades what's the point of having different classes? |
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a bit off-topic, but do you think ggg will ever add a few more paths/nodes to the ascendancies? so you have more build options directly within the ascendancy itself?
Don't get lost by being so focused on the target that you forget to enjoy your surroundings.
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I wonder if maybe the 3rd ascendency will focus more on buffing shapeshifting. It was meant to be called wildheart from what I seen? Shaman is probably closest it has atm but it's not screaming druid I agree.
I hope it's possible to make a wolf pack with decent damage on them. Summoning only 1 wolf consuming mark on a boss looks so so, likely they will die before you can summon a whole pack on a boss. Which is a shame. |
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