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Wildwood Ascendancies
Wildwood Ascendancies are an additional Ascendancy you can acquire from Affliction that you can take in addition to your normal class Ascendancy.
These Ascendancies can confer a significant amount of character power, increase the quantity found of specific Wisp types, and can grant access to new types of equipment.
This is a Pre-Launch Guide, as the Affliction Challenge League is not yet live. This guide is based on publicly available information about Affliction through reveals, teasers, Q&A, developer answers, etc, and will continue to be updated up through – and after – league launch. As such, information in this guide may be inaccurate, or simply changed by GGG prior to launch.
Unlocking a Wildwood Ascendancy
In order to unlock a Wildwood Ascendancy, you must first find the Azmeri Wanderer associated with that Ascendancy in the Wildwood. When you do, you may choose to gain their Ascendancy, and gain your 1st and 2nd Ascendancy points.
You can gain more ascendancy points by following a questline from that Wanderer, tasking you with accomplishing increasingly difficult tasks in the Wildwood – culminating in your 7th and 8th Ascendancy points from killing the final Wildwood boss.
Respeccing Ascendancies
You can respec your Ascendancy by simply choosing a new Ascendancy from a different Wanderer. This will set you back to 2 Ascendancy points, and you will have to complete the questline from your newly-chosen Wanderer to regain more Ascendancy points.
Whether or not you’ve defeated the final boss is shared across questlines, however, and upon earning your 6th Ascendancy point, you will instantly complete the remaining quests for your 7th and 8th point.
If you respec your Ascendancy back to one you’ve already completed quests for, you will maintain your previously-completed quest status for those quests, and instantly reaquire any previously-earned Ascendancy points.
Warden of the Maji
Wanderer: The Warden of Eaves
Wisp: Vivid
The Warden of the Maji Ascendancy revolves around Flasks and enables you to use Tinctures in place of Flasks – giving you powerful passive bonuses!
Ascendancy Passives
Vivid Wisps Found
10% increased Quantity of Vivid Wisps found in the Viridian Wildwood
Detect Evil
Your Hits against Marked Enemy cannot be Blocked or Suppressed
Rare and Unique Enemies within 120 metres have Minimap Icons
Oath of the Maji
Defences from Equipped Body Armour are doubled if it has no Socketed Gems
+50% to all Elemental Resistances if you have an Equipped Helmet with no Socketed Gems
25% increased Maximum Life if you have Equipped Gloves with no Socketed Gems
30% increased Movement Speed if you have Equipped Boots with no Socketed Gems
Coated Blade
Can apply Tinctures to your Equipped Weapons
Nature’s Concoction
Flasks adjacent to applied Tincture gain 3 charges when you Hit an Enemy with a Weapon, no more than once every second
Flasks adjacent to applied Tincture have 30% increased Effect when used if you’ve Hit an enemy with a Weapon Recently
Enduring Suffusion
Tinctures applied to you have 75% increased Effect per empty Flask Slot
Wildwood Blessing
Grants Level 20 Barkskin Skill
Lesson of the Seasons
10% chance to Avoid non-Damaging Ailments on you per Bark below maximum
10% reduced Duration of Damaging Ailments on you per Bark
Warlock of the Mists
Wanderer: The Breaker of Oaths
Wisp: Wild
The Warlock of the Mists Ascendancy can grant a number of different skills, and empower builds that spend and reserve Life.
The “Ravenous” skill lets you see enemy types, and consume corpses to gain damage bonuses against matching types.
Ascendancy Passives
Wild Wisps Found
10% increased Quantity of Wild Wisps found in the Viridian Wildwood
Blood Hunt
Grants Level 20 Ravenous Skill
Soul Splitting
Grants Level 20 Summon Dark Effigy Skill
Warlock Power
Allows you to choose one of the three attached options:
Creeping Lobotomy
Grants Level 20 Pacify Skill
(Pacify curses all targets in an area, having no effect at first, but causing them to deal no damage once 60% of the curse’s duration has expired)
Choir of the Damned
Grants Level 20 Penance Mark Skill
(Penance Mark curses a single enemy, causing them to spawn multiple phantasms when hit. The phantasms will be allies of the marked enemy with the same monster level. They cast a projectile spell which deals physical damage, and are immune to curses. You can only have one Mark at a time)
Black Mass
Grants Level 20 Affliction Skill
(Affliction permanently Afflicts any of your damageable minions in a targeted area, causing them to take physical damage over time, at an accelerating rate. Each such minion causes you to regenerate life at a rate based on the current damage of it’s Affliction debuff. Afflicted Minions explode if their life is lowered to a fifth of maximum)
Foul Pact
Enemies Pacified by you take 20% increased Damage
Minions affected by Affliction have Onslaught
Phantasms from Penance Mark have a 50% chance to grant a Vaal Soul on Death
Phantasms from Penance Mark grant 50% increased Flask Charges
Sanguimancy
Skills Cost Life instead of Mana
Skills Reserve Life instead of Mana
Removes all Mana
50% increased Life Reservation Efficiency of Skills
Cannibalised Faith
Spells you cast yourself gain Added Physical Damage equal to 75% of Life Cost, if Life Cost is not higher than the maximum you could spend
Crimson Power
Removes all Energy Shield
Gain Maximum Life instead of Maximum Energy Shield from Equipped Armour Items
-6 Maximum Life per Level
Wildwood Primalist
Wanderer: The Primal Huntress
Wisp: Primal
The Wildwood Primalist is comprised mostly of Charm slots that can be filled with Charms that provide miniature versions of regular PoE Ascendancy Skills.
It can also provide a small inventory expansion in the form of a backpack!
Ascendancy Passives
Primal Wisps Found
10% increased Quantity of Primal Wisps found in the Viridian Wildwood
Howl of the Wolf
Your Warcries attempt to shake extra items from Corpses
Your Warcries open Chests
Might of the Bear
5% increased Character Size
Equip a Wildwood Rucksack which has 20 Inventory Slots
Charm Socket
(Can be socketed with a Charm)
Conclusion
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