Feedback on Acolyte of Chayula

Leveling a Chayula monk at the moment and...damn. Thank you for sharing this.

Hopefully GGG does something about the lame ascendencies.

Some kind of indication for when Reality Rending is proccing -audio or visual, it can be minor just something- would be nice. As is, you gotta trust it's working as written for all Hit types, even things like Thorns.

More showerthoughts: what if the ascendancy had more beneficial interactions with receiving Chaos damage, besides simply being good at tanking it? It could refresh Flames' durations, buff Leeching to not expire on full mana/grant some type of overfill, recoup Darkness, minor AoE to Reality Rending . . . Just spit balling here



Most importantly, it would be a nice middle-finger to the recently buffed Chaos Inoculation keystone.

I have a lot of thoughts on Chayula.
Last league I had an invoker to 90 and I'm almost there with my chunk this league.

The entire ascendency needs reworked, buffed, something. It's unclear of the design here.
I really wanted a melee chaos damaging monk. The idea was fantastic. I split my tree between poison and chaos nodes only to find out that +chaos doesn't increase poison (A CHAOS DAMAGE TYPE). You have to increase poison magnitude.
In order for poison to scale with chaos is that you need chaos as the hit or delivery mechanism. There are no chaos quarter staves. You can corrupt one to add chaos but the damage is comically low.

You can do a spell casting monk but thats not the class fantasy. GGG has gimped creativity so much that you need a martial weapon for so much. Why in the world does herald of plague need a martial weapon? Oh yeah, so we can't overlap and have fun designing.
You can just go with the three elements but you might as well go invoker at that point. The class simply doesn't have an identity. I guess the only real perk is the chaos resistance (which is weak) or mana ES leech WHICH DOESN'T WORK IF YOUR MANA IS FULL.
CI needed to be a perk of darkness but...lol thats too obvious.

It seems more like a place holder more than anything. Right now I just went flicker/lightning just to make him playable.
It blows my mind that they added three new ascendancies and a new class while Acolyte is in it's current form. What?

This may seem a tad selfish but I find this exceptionally irritating:
They'll rework it and it will get some major buffs.
Probably for the next patch.
The catch is they'll advertise it like its a live release game and show how amazing chunk is. Half the population will play it, break the game with whatever new mechanics it has, and streamers will inevitably say, "omg chunk is so amaze, OP, nerf now". Which they will two patches from now.
The people trying to squeeze water from a rock now will be a tad resentful.

Sure they can actually fix the problems at the moment but they aren't for whatever reason. Even if everything worked properly, the class is still underwhelming by a huge margin.

If I sound bitter it's because I am. I've spent 80+ levels trying to give this class some identity because GGG sure isn't.

Nice detailed OP. +1.

This is "The Vision" man. Working as expected.

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Skyvortex#7923 เขียน:

In order for poison to scale with chaos is that you need chaos as the hit or delivery mechanism. There are no chaos quarter staves. You can corrupt one to add chaos but the damage is comically low.

I understand the frustration all too well. As Devil's Advocate, you technically can scale quarterstaff poison through Chaos nodes via pairing the unique Original Sin with a fully Lightning Quarterstaff (or the fully Fire unique version). Are there better things you could be doing with those resources? absolutely

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LeFlesh#9979 เขียน:

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Skyvortex#7923 เขียน:

In order for poison to scale with chaos is that you need chaos as the hit or delivery mechanism. There are no chaos quarter staves. You can corrupt one to add chaos but the damage is comically low.

I understand the frustration all too well. As Devil's Advocate, you technically can scale quarterstaff poison through Chaos nodes via pairing the unique Original Sin with a fully Lightning Quarterstaff (or the fully Fire unique version). Are there better things you could be doing with those resources? absolutely

Yes I know but that costs $$$.

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drafaelf26#3396 เขียน:

OP, are you certain Darkness is not being affected by elemental and chaos resistance? That's a pretty big bug if it is true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1k8p2l2/acolyte_of_chayula_is_broken_literally/