Servant of Arakaali and Architect of Chaos revealed
The Servant of Arakaali for Shadow and Architect of Chaos for Templar have just been revealed for the upcoming The Legacy of Phrecia Event. Following the Gambler and Harbinger reveal these two continue the trend of being powerful and interesting. Read our analysis for the minion based Shadow and Vaal Skill enhancing Templar Ascendancies below.
Servant of Arakaali (Shadow)
| Node Effect | What it Does |
|---|---|
Minions have 50% chance to Poison Enemies on Hit Minions have 10% chance to inflict Withered on Hit | Chance for minions to poison is a difficult stat to acquire, with abyss jewels being the main source. Gaining 50% chance at once on top of permanent 15 Wither stacks on enemies is therefore very strong. |
| Trigger Level 20 Raise Spiders on Kill | A level 20 version of Arakaali's Fang effect, with the values of Level 20 unknown so far. You lose the ability to support the Spiders with Support Gems but can equip Minion Damage boosting weapons in return. |
| Minions have +5% to Critical Strike Multiplier per Withered Debuff on Enemy Minions' Base Attack Critical Strike Chance is equal to the Critical Strike Chance of your Main Weapon | The first node ensures that any durable monsters always have 15 stacks of Withered, resulting in +75% Crit Multi. A Convoking Wand with T1 Crit Chance can reach up to 11.45% local Crit which is very sizable. |
| Grants Level 30 Aspect of the Spider Skill | The level 30 version allows 4 webs to be applied instead of 3. Enemies take 5% increased damage per Web on applied to them. |
| Enemies affected by your Spider's Webs deal 15% reduced Damage Enemies affected by your Spider's Webs have -15% to All Resistances | A good generic boost in Defense and Offense against targets affected by Webs from Aspect of the Spider. |
| Gain 30% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage while at maximum Power Charges 20% chance to gain a Power Charge on hitting an Enemy affected by a Spider's Web | A seemingly misplaced node on an otherwise heavily Minion oriented Ascendancy. This node may have some uses in hybrid Summoners, which are a lackluster archetype at the moment however. |
| Grants Level 15 Envy Skill Envy has no Reservation | A substantial boost in flat chaos damage for (mainly) Minion builds. United in Dream builds may still want to allocate this to remove the reservation cost as Level 25 grants double the flat damage over Level 15. |
| Grants Level 20 Penance Mark | Grants the same effect as The Hateful Accuser, causing 3 enemies to spawn when the marked enemy is hit, with a 1s cooldown per spawn. |
Architect of Chaos (Templar)
| Node Effect | What it Does |
|---|---|
| +3 to Level of all Vaal Skill Gems | A generic but powerful damage boost for Vaal Skill Gems. |
| 8% increased Maximum Life for each Corrupted Item Equipped 12% increased Maximum Energy Shield for each Corrupted Item Equipped -4% to all Resistances for each Corrupted Item Equipped | A stronger version of Shadowstitch's mods. This can provide up to 80% increased Maximum Life and 120% increased Maximum Energy Shield when all equipped items are corrupted. |
| 50% reduced Soul Gain Prevention Duration 286% increased Vaal Skill Critical Strike Chance | GGG has been very cautious with sources of reduced Soul Gain Prevention Duration. Being able to get 50% at once opens up exciting new build possibilities. |
| Skills cost Life instead of Mana | A good way to solve mana costs especially after the nerfs to Inspiration Support and the removal of reduced mana cost flask suffix mods. |
| Skills reserve Life instead of Mana 100% increased Life Reservation Efficiency of Skills | A strong node for mana stackers as this allows them to run Auras without sacrificing their huge mana pools for reservation. |
| Removes all Energy Shield Life that would be lost by taking Damage is instead Reserved until you take no Damage to Life for 1 second | Grants the same effect as Dissolution of the Flesh but only requires 1 second of not taking damage. While Dissolution grants up to 30% more Life this is a worthwhile trade in most cases. |
| Everlasting Sacrifice Shepherd of Souls | Everlasting Sacrifice grants "When you reach full Energy Shield, Sacrifice all Energy Shield to gain +5% to all Maximum Resistances for 4 seconds." and can be found on Mahuxotl's Machination. Shepherd of Souls grants "Vaal Non-Aura Skills have 80% less Soul Cost. Vaal Non-Aura Skills have 100% increased Soul Cost per Vaal Skill used in the past 8 seconds" and can be found on Yaomac's Accord. |
| 50% increased Vaal Skill Effect Duration Vaal Skills require 50% reduced Souls per Use | Reduced soul cost for Vaal Skills is another extremely rare stat that further enables the Vaal Skill archetype. Soul Gain Prevention Duration is directly affected by the Skills duration. This means the 50% increased Vaal Skill Effect Duration is a potential downside in certain builds that aim to reduce the Prevention Duration as much as possible. |
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Both the Servant of Arakaali and the Architect of Chaos bring unique build options, with the latter allowing some otherwise impossible Vaal centered builds. We are looking forward to seeing the other 15 Ascendancy reveals over the coming days! Looking for more news on Path of Exile 1? Then head over to our Discord and select the Path of Exile role in #roles to stay up to date with our content development. Stay sane, Exile!
Written by: Cptn Garbage
Reviewed by: Tenkiei
