Acolyte of Chayula is in a bad State right now, it makes no sense

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Ryker77#1693 a écrit :

Chayula can be fixed in two simple changes.

1) Sap of Nightmares: add 100% of elemental damage converted to chaos

2) Volatility: Volatility explodes EVERY 4 seconds, dealing 100 Physical Damage to you per Volatility. You will gain Volatile Power, Gaining 1% of Damage as Chaos for each Volatility which exploded. The VOLATILITY timer will reset on gaining another stack of Volatility.

Volatility can be gained once every 0.1 seconds, and the default maximum for Volatility stacks on you at once is 200.

These two simple changes will make the class feel great and be on par with other classes.

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That Volatility math doesn't add up.

If you can only gain it once every 0.1 seconds, you can only gain 10 a second, which means if it explodes every 4 seconds you can only have 40 before it explodes.

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LFA01#0120 a écrit :

I think it still needs some work, but I legit think Chayula monk is pretty decent. Probably a better choice than Avatar if you are willing to engage with some slightly clunky mechanics.

Volatility is very inconsistant but you can somewhat easily have around 20 to 40-ish% of it while mapping, potentially a lot more in very dense areas like Abysses or breach, if you have abilities that can damage mobs sequentially like shattering palm or heralds you can easily reach up to 200 in a matter or seconds. The main problem is the duration, it's a bit low.
I think the play is to use Catharsis supported attack regularly (like on the basic attack) to keep it up somewhat consistently.
Pretty clunky and you have to keep looking at the top icon but it's a LOT more damage than Avatar with his meager 10% extra cold/lightning.
BTW as a bonus, the volatility explosion counts as a hit even if you take no damage, it doesn't interupt ES recharge and it can trigger your ghost dance for instant ES recovery without having to get bonked by a mob first, it's extremely good for survivability. Could also open some very good techs to self trigger effects when hit.
Admittedly it's not that amazing against bosses, you'd probably want some Cast on X to rack up the charges faster.

Void illusion is also surprisingly good. Very usefull during the leveling, it'll save your ass consistently. I took it as my first ascendency and imo it is a lot more valuable than anything Avatar can offer as a first pick. The main bummer is that it doesn't work with blink for some reason.


Darkness is still kinda trash though, I guess you'd only ever use that if you REALLY want to have all of your gem slot available for active gems but otherwise the persistant buffs are just way too good to pass up. There might be someone out there with a tech for it, but at base value it's basically worthless.

Overall I think Chonk is a pretty solid ascendency honestly, I don't know what you guys are on about.
Unless you absolutely want to go nuts on Cast on X, it's probably a lot better than Avatar.