Acolyte of Chayula still needs some TLC

Another league, another chonk started… another chonk pushed to the wayside in favor of invoker and other much more viable classes/ascendancies…. After trying extremely hard to make this ascendancy work, it just… doesn’t… wanted to try once more to maybe pitch a couple ideas to improve it…

Embracing the Darkness - This is supposed to be the powerhouse chaos defense. It seems like it’s trying to be ES, but does not scale with ES , does not show up in my character’s defensive stats on my character sheet, and has a finite reservation delay of 5 seconds. Which are problems and make it strictly worse than what it is trying to be.

In order to potentially improve the reservation, I believe this needs to be modified to be a skill with both the persistent and duration tags, this way we can add support gems to it to help make it a more powerful tool to behave more like energy shield does in the sense that stacking duration will either increase/decrease how long darkness is reserved.

Additionally, since I am trading off the use of Spirit buffs entirely for this new defensive layer, I also believe that ,(much like Smith of Kitava with the changes in fire res affecting all res), should also be the case here as well. So adding the same, but have modifiers to chaos resistance affect all resistance at 27% value. This way, I can go all in on Chaos for a big payoff.

Furthermore, on Deepening Shadows, as it stands, we get a finite scaling of how high darkness can go at 75% increased darkness (85% with Chayula’s gift) for this I believe the change should be 1% increased darkness per uncapped chaos res. This way, I’m incentivized to stack Chaos Res and can scale my cool new “Chaos Shield”

For Inner Turmoil - this node opens up some cool build potential with volatility, but falls a little bit short. in addition to gaining 1 volatility on elemental ailment, why not also add a 0.5% non-damaging ailment magnitude buff per stack of volatility. This way we can achieve up to an additional 100% increased magnitude allowing for some strong CCs and big burst DPS via shock.

Finally, for Unravelling, as it stands now, we have chaos damage contributes to ignite chance & magnitude, freeze buildup, and shock chance changing every 2 seconds. In its current state, it is random and unreliable as a means to inflict ailments. Please change this so that there is a set rotation to expand this into a build around node like intended. A set rotation would allow me to reliably rotate my skills for maximized DPS

For Void Illusion, I’m not a minion player, but I believe adding the Minion tag to this skill would open up some sick builds and expand the appeal of the ascendancy for sure

These are all the immediate improvements/ideas I have to improve things and maybe strengthening the identity of the ascendancy as a “all in on chaos” class.

And if you made it this far, thanks for reading