No Chaos Witch ascendancy?

Been playing a full chaos witch with full ES, got up ascendancy and doesnt feel like theres any DOT or full ES options.

I hope occultist from poe1 will be brought back in some fashion. There absolutely needs to be an ascendancy focused on chaos damage/curses. There will be 3 ascendancies on full release, so there's one more to go.

Just one more problem: I also hope they bring Necromancer back. Most likely one of them will be scrapped.

yeah it's kinda weird that there isn't an ascendancy that seems tailored towards chaos spells.
also weird that there's no spells though that are on theme for bloodmage, just using necromancer stuff like bone spells just doesn't feel like blood magic spells thematically. i'm sure other classes might have similar feelings though

Demon Form works for chaos spells... Pretty sure Mathil did a ES low-life chaos infernalist.

Ascendancies in this game need a MAJOR rethink by GGG.

Just porting over the lazy one-size-fits-all "ascendancy trial" (Labs) was a big mistake in a game that's EA.

Before (when POE came out) people didn't have a voice and were drowned out by the toxicity of the POE 1 forums.

Now they are catching the full brunt of players seeing this for the first time and wondering what they were thinking.

I wouldn't hold my breath that any new ascendancies are going to make it into the game right now though. Hopefully they fix the concept itself first and make ascendancies ACTUALLY ABOUT THE ASCENDANCY and not a random string of maps with RNG debuffs.

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Ippotsuko#6657 написал:

yeah it's kinda weird that there isn't an ascendancy that seems tailored towards chaos spells.

We currently have 12 out of 36 ascendancies available, how is it weird that there are some missing when 2/3rds of them are missing lol. It's EA.

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justgivemeafuckingaccou#1081 написал:

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Ippotsuko#6657 написал:

yeah it's kinda weird that there isn't an ascendancy that seems tailored towards chaos spells.

We currently have 12 out of 36 ascendancies available, how is it weird that there are some missing when 2/3rds of them are missing lol. It's EA.

"It's EA"

The excuse for everything on here.

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Bacon_Overlord#1834 написал:

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justgivemeafuckingaccou#1081 написал:

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Ippotsuko#6657 написал:

yeah it's kinda weird that there isn't an ascendancy that seems tailored towards chaos spells.

We currently have 12 out of 36 ascendancies available, how is it weird that there are some missing when 2/3rds of them are missing lol. It's EA.

"It's EA"

The excuse for everything on here.

That's an absurd response. You genuinely believe that EA should have launched with 100% of the content available? like you really believe that all 36 ascendancies should already be out? That is absolutely wild LMAO

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"It's EA"

The excuse for everything on here.

Well... it is.

We have 1/3 of the ascendancies, half the classes, half the acts, and halfish of the items. There is, inevitably, some things missing that many of us are going to love.

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justgivemeafuckingaccou#1081 написал:

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Ippotsuko#6657 написал:

yeah it's kinda weird that there isn't an ascendancy that seems tailored towards chaos spells.

We currently have 12 out of 36 ascendancies available, how is it weird that there are some missing when 2/3rds of them are missing lol. It's EA.

That's not what people are complaining about. What people are worried about is that each class gets three ascendancies, and we currently have two for Witch. That means one of the two Occult skill schools (Necromancer and Chaos DoT Occultist) are going to get shafted in the ascendancy department. Unless GGG rolls Necro and Occultist into one Ascendancy, of course. Which they might do, given how Blood Mage and Infernalist both have minion nodes without being outright minion ascendancies.

EDIT: I was mistaken, Blood Mage doesn't have any minion nodes.

My guess is that Occultist will be the third ascendancy, and Necro will get outright nixed. GGG probably doesn't want a pure braindead zookeeper in PoE2; it goes against their design philosophy of making gameplay decisions more meaningful. That, and balancing minions was a gigantic headache for GGG in PoE1, and they probably don't want to repeat that process all over again here. They'd probably rather have more engaging Witch specs that support minion gameplay, rather than make AFK minions the centerpiece. Still, it is odd that they gave us minion command buttons, entire minion clusters, and lots of minion skills without actually making a minion-focused class.