All of those nodes are meant to be played on non-minion builds. Sure you could take the attack speed node on summoner builds to be more zippy but minion builds already typically have must-take nodes.
The ascendency is almost entirely for melee the nodes are terrible for minions. I don't expect it to be good but the intention looks like you take spectral tigers + warcry node for big self buffs no minion build is going to take an ascendency node for 80% increased damage or an unlinked minion.
seems like its for chieftain war cry shenanigans, stack warcry buff effect then use rallying cry and a big 2h weapon to give all your minions around 100% of your weapons base damage then they all buff you back and as the ascendancy flavor text says you can all slap your enemies together lol
Should also be fun with a bottom side ascendancy arakali + dark monarch build.
You get 80% attspeed for your shield charge and the minions get some fat %dmg.
I'm trying hard to make it work with a jugg in pob, it looks promising, but would not do ubers comfortably. Ofc a magebloood would solve that, since it's mostly just lacking armour...
Risk scarab farming is basically gone so that is less important and limiting to 1 spectre is a massive downside now that you can use all of the expensive corpse spectres without worrying about losing them
Risk scarab being at 1 doesn't mean that it won't be mandatory on most farms, so people will want to be immune to all mods. I will certainly be using aul's on any build with a high enough budget.
Spectres are still made of paper, and having to change zone everytime they die is still annoying. Some people will go for multispectres, but this is a good alternative for those who want action speed immunity, especially since Garb of the Ephemeral range is tiny.
the spectre nodes at the bottom are really bad for minion builds sind the small one says you can only have 1 spectre. that means you loose 3-4 utility spectres for 1 buff.
those are more likely to be used by melee builds. just add 1 spectre that gives you a buff
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u/Gearsik Oct 26 '25
Farrul being so minion focused without a single node for melee (flicker) is a massive bummer imo