Acolyte of Chayula Feedback

As one of the few people playing this class I would like to give feedback. As a MELEE MONK, I have taken this class to the very end game, T16, bosses and now the uber Arbitor of Ash.

I've done so only because of the Original Sin Unique ring. Without it I don't believe this is viable as a melee monk at all. I would also go further and say that me getting this far is a result of my normal skill tree and the synergy with the original sin. Aside from the chaos leech the ascendancy provides my build hardly benefits from the ascendancy at all. All the buffs from the ascendancy are completely inconsistent and despite me having success I would have had more more success as an invoker.

Ill go down each of the major nodes and talk about their issues.

The first major issue is with unraveling and inner turmoil. The buff volatility grants has completely separate cooldowns for each detonation with no way of refreshing the buff. This causes a huge issue keeping the buff as high as possible and is a complete drain on quick gameplay as I need to get my stacks high before detonating. This is basically just for mapping as it has almost no use on bosses, they usually die before I ever even get a significant amount of volatility. Overall, I do believe the cooldown reset is a bug and have posted so in the bug forum.

Chayluas gift is nice but hardly has any value, might appeal to niche caster builds? I think it should be scrapped.

Sap of Nightmares pathway Is honestly perfect.

Waking dream and lucid dreaming - my only issue is the uptime but also the fact that the remnants spawn outside of your view. you only see them if you move around constantly and you dont see them in dense mob packs AT ALL, so hopefully you can pick them up somehow???

Grasp of the void is nice honestly, I used it and it helps with mapping but I picked up waking dream instead for more damage but the value between the two is roughly the same.

Darkness pathway absolutely needs a complete rework. Sacrificing spirit under any circumstance is never worth it. if someone disagrees please educate me, but yeah I would never ever pick that nor would I ever recommend it.


hopefully the devs see this and are inspired to make this ascendancy better. I love the concept as do many other people.