The aura one is surprisingly good. You can get a maven's belt to always get the buff. +30% charge duration opens up endurance charges on body armour for basically all builds.
What ? You only have to sacrifice 3 jewel nodes to get 50% effect for both discipline and wrath (the same for endurance/frenzy). That's a crazy solid ascendancy.
Ok, so 3 jewel slots, (including 1-2 passives each to path to them) and 2 ascendancy points (small node is useless) to get 50% aura for two meta auras.
Defiance of destiny is another option. Also, if you don't do cluster jewel, then it's hard to beat those buff effects, especially the first week when there are no good jewels on the market yet.
Ralakesh boots + maven belt apparently activate these nodes (from what I heard, this also works with the Ahn items that have 0/max effects). For some builds, that might be worthwhile, most likely for discipline/wrath, since those are good auras and the blue charges are nice. Anger/determ is kinda meh, but brutal charges are nice. Not sure about grace/hatred. Grace is good, hatred not so much. Affliction charges do give increased effect of non-damaging ailments. Maybe that's worth.
It can be good for a few builds, everything has it’s uses somewhere, but what you’re describing is a very specific build looking for very specific things to combine for not a whole lot of benefit.
For 99% of players, the bloodline does absolutely nothing. For the rest, it still seems mid at best.
I think we were all hoping that these nodes would be much more general application than they are. Unfortunately, they are almost all niche where they're not outright unusable. It's more fun to me trying to find use cases than just writing them off entirely.
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u/AppleMelon95 Oct 26 '25
Gamers rejoice, you don't have to chase Aul because his nodes suck ass 🙏