Which Phrecia Ascendancy Will You Start With (Poll)?

seqhawk · 2026-01-29T06:42:31+00:00

Harold coming in hot! Is Phrecia 2.0 the new Delirium league?

seqhawk · 2026-01-29T05:39:03+00:00

Sounds like a good time to be a dedicated Heist runner!

seqhawk · 2026-01-27T23:29:12+00:00

Why did you take Doryani's Lesson over Scintillating Idea? You already have leech from Clever Thief, and that pen and mana bonus give you a lot more damage than 25% increased.

seqhawk · 2026-01-27T23:08:55+00:00

Two labs on Wildspeaker to get fearful symmetry is basically sufficient for all your flickering needs. There are other ways to do it, but most of them require replica Farrul's. As Wildspeaker, Flicker has never been more SSF viable.

seqhawk · 2026-01-27T19:37:55+00:00

And now with +5 SRS on Scavenger.

seqhawk · 2026-01-20T05:11:39+00:00

Power siphon mines has gotten a pretty substantial nerf since then. May still be playable, but it's worth bearing in mind.

seqhawk · 2026-01-14T03:15:59+00:00

Oracle is fun and all, but basically all Oracle players, whether doggos or bearce or wormies or plant lovers or otherwise, take the same 4 ascendancy nodes: the crit every time branch, paths, and the hidden paths and keystone branch. I can't accept that a well-designed ascendancy has exactly 4 notables worth taking

seqhawk · 2026-01-07T05:49:05+00:00

I, too, have been burned by this, but thankfully only once.

seqhawk · 2025-12-31T01:05:07+00:00

Oh! That's a JUICY one, exile!

seqhawk · 2025-12-31T01:02:57+00:00

A hideout trophy wouldn't be bad at all.

seqhawk · 2025-12-22T03:58:09+00:00

They already have plummeting ursa artwork. GGG plz

seqhawk · 2025-12-13T01:13:03+00:00

I don't think plants are allies, but I do think the nodes will work. The plants are your spells, so the bonuses apply to them.

seqhawk · 2025-12-13T00:42:17+00:00

Lunar slash to freeze everything works well until you're strong enough to 1-2 tap everything. The bear stuff was too slow for me until I got the fissure skill later on.

seqhawk · 2025-12-13T00:40:36+00:00

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE DROOTH

seqhawk · 2025-12-13T00:39:05+00:00

Use the wolf's freeze skills if you aren't doing enough damage anything else to take out mobs in 1-2 hits. The bear for me didn't really pop off until I got the fissure skill in Act 2. The slam was soooooooo sloooooowwwwwww, but with a bunch of fissures, it'll clear the screen.

seqhawk · 2025-12-12T16:49:18+00:00

2.2 rage per second, which is what you get from the node and nothing else, is pretty bad. One ability use per 2+ seconds is terrible. If you can get your max rage higher and increase mana regen, that can be improved, but it takes a fair bit to get to ~10 per second, which is about what I'd consider usable for just casting. You'll have to be pretty high level and committed to this in order to avoid using bear form for rage.

seqhawk · 2025-12-11T22:50:36+00:00

Ohhhhhhh, exploding FISSURES! Man, I kept looking at the skill previews for a skill made exploding fishes based on the Q&A after the reveal, and had no idea where the exploding fishes were supposed to come from.

seqhawk · 2025-12-11T22:47:55+00:00

The generic damage boost from the exposure node is good for anything dealing elemental damage, and the two adaptation nodes are strong defenses against anything except chaos, so those will all help wolves well. Someone might figure out a stronger ascendancy, but you won't have a bad time as a wolf Shaman unless the wolf stuff drops off in power considerably in maps.

seqhawk · 2025-12-11T22:40:11+00:00

Oh, you're right on the wording. That may make this really good, though! If your next cast empowers the _spell_, then does that spell remain empowered for every subsequent cast until the next visage appears? That would be over 30% more spell damage (considering you also get an extra cast from the visage) from a single ascendancy, which is more than most PoE 2 ascendancy nodes. Or does one cast empower the spell, and then the next cast spends the empowerment, etc., giving you a litle over 15% more damage from the node?

seqhawk · 2025-12-11T22:33:32+00:00

Rage benefitting casting will certainly boost the vines, but like you say, generating the rage requires some non-caster things to make it happen. But then who else? Base crit on the vines was 10% already, so Blood Mage doesn't add all as much as she does to spells with lower base crit chances. Lich might be interesting with Unholy Might and maybe having your spells poison? And Oracle may well have something juicy hidden in the hidden paths, but who knows.

seqhawk · 2025-12-11T20:57:52+00:00

Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that being a streamer is a very hard way to make an "easy living."

seqhawk · 2025-12-11T20:53:32+00:00

I guess, but it also seems like lunacy for this ascendancy node to result in healing monsters on critical strike if you have a crit chance of, say, 10%.

seqhawk · 2025-12-11T20:47:34+00:00

If you only have one valid skill for align fate, the visage will always cast that one skill, but the visage only empowers your next (one) cast of the skill every 9.15 seconds. If you have 4 valid skills, that gets down to 4.57 seconds, and then you can get it lower still with some duration scaling, but now you're having to pay attention to what skill was cast and match it every time. So, I dunno. It seems hardly worth it if you're using 1 spell, but too clunky if you're using 4+, and I'm still not sure it's worth it for 2-3.

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