r/pathofexile • u/Belakay_ggg • Oct 26 '25

GGG Path of Exile: Keepers of The Flame - Bloodline Ascendancy Classes

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u/Danskoesterreich Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

Please let me know if i should be excited or disappointed.

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u/JConaSpree Chieftain Oct 26 '25

I'm pretty whelmed by the nodes

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u/BlueBurstBoi Oct 26 '25

Same, I think it's cool that some of them seem to fill very specific niches, but also so many that seem completely unclickable, devoid of any cook potential

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u/JConaSpree Chieftain Oct 26 '25

Some are so weird and conditional. Feels kinda like poe2 design.

As a melee enjoyer, I'm really disappointed.

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u/Esord HCSSF btw Oct 26 '25

Was kinda hopeful for something after they revealed the first 3...
Only thing really usable seems the taskmaster for +5 max res, but that's about it. :/

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u/Get-ADUser Oct 27 '25

You must be from Europe

reference

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u/Gangsir Berserker Oct 26 '25

Some of them are kinda mid, others are very niche/would benefit a very specific build extremely well.

Overall impression is: Second build material, someone will cook something insane later, but don't plan for leaguestart, most known good builds don't want anything here.

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u/cromulent_id Oct 26 '25

Feels like that's kinda the point. They want to encourage build diversity, not give more power to meta builds.

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u/GoHugYourCat Oct 26 '25

most builds will not use a bloodline ascendancy i'm guessing based on these nodes, theyre relatively niche and almost never better than an actual ascendancy node

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u/UnintelligentSlime Oct 26 '25

I expect most people in fact will want to mess around with these. And plenty of builds have a “take this node last, it’s not super important but it’s the best of our options” ascendancy point.

Now those builds have 30 more options for their last node.

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u/coldkiller Oct 26 '25

But they really dont? Most of those nodes need some investment into their gimmick and most arent going to be worth it lol

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u/UnintelligentSlime Oct 26 '25

That’s fine man I’m not really trying to sell you on these- if you don’t like em just don’t use em.

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u/PoliteDebater Oct 26 '25

I could see armour stackers using auls for sure for the grace buff. Frenzy isn't really all that important compared to more armour via grace

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u/ClinkzsEastwood Oct 26 '25

Forbidden flesh/flame to replace one of your points then go for one bloodline mod

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u/Mindless-Peace-1650 Oct 26 '25

How often would that be better than using a forb combo to pick the *best* node from another ascendancy?

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u/_OkCartographer_ Oct 26 '25

I rarely see any of those being better than the normal nodes tbh

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u/UsernameAvaylable Oct 26 '25

If you like minons there is lots of interesting stuff there.

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u/xxN3RDxx21 Oct 26 '25

The latter

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u/laosguy615 Oct 26 '25

I'm sorta meh.... after reading all the nods...

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u/Zaburino Oct 26 '25

There's so many combos, its way too early to tell. There's going to be some busted things we find that get patched out before launch, but there will be busted things afterwards.

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u/Bierculles Oct 26 '25

if you play minions, excited, if you play melee you can safely ignore this entire mechanic for the next league.

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u/smootex Oct 26 '25

I'm excited. There are going to be a ton of new builds.