Amazon Ascendancy Overview
The Amazon Ascendancy for the Huntress class grants powerful offensive options through a high amount of Critical Hit Chance, Open Wounds and powerful Infusion hits after consuming a Power/Endurance/Power charge. Shore up your defenses by increasing the effectiveness of your Helmet/Gloves/Boots with "Stalking Panther" or enable elemental damage leech with "Mystic Harvest".
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Amazon - Huntress
| Node Effect | What it Does |
|---|---|
| Chance to hit with Attacks can exceed 100% Gain additional Critical Hit Chance equal to 25% of excess chance to hit with Attacks | A 100% chance to Hit is achieved when the player has twice the Accuracy compared to the targets Evasion. Chance to hit is capped at 150% (Formula: (1.5 * Accuracy) / (Accuracy + Evasion)) so therefore this Node can grant up to +12.5% base crit. Combined with the accuracy distance penalty, blind and maim it is rather easy to reach this cap when attacking from outside melee range. Check out our Critical Hit formula to learn why base crit is powerful. |
| Attacks using your Weapons have Added Physical Damage equal to 25% of the Accuracy Rating on the Weapon | The highest Accuracy prefix roll on a Quarterstaff grants +550 Accuracy, resulting in 137.5 Added Physical Damage. As Accuracy is a Prefix this competes with the highest flat damage rolls which grant the same damage, but don't require an Ascendancy Node. |
| Reveal Weakness against Rare and Unique enemies 50% more damage against enemies with an Open Weakness | Highlights certain chunks of a monsters HP bar which take 50% more damage. A monster can have multiple chunks of Open Weakness throughout their HP bar. Potentially strong for DoT builds when timing the initial hit to damage an Open Wound. |
| 20% increased Movement Speed while an enemy with an Open Weakness is in your Presence 40% increased Skill Speed while an enemy with an Open Weakness is in your Presence | Presence Range is 4m by default and can be scaled by increases to Presence Range. You only get this bonus when the Enemy's current HP bar actively has an Open Wound which may cause an inconsistent feel. |
| Grants Skill: Infuse Weapon When you Consume a Power Charge Trigger Infuse Weapon to gain 2 Cold Infusion When you Consume an Endurance Charge Trigger Infuse Weapon to gain 2 Fire Infusion When you Consume a Frenzy Charge Trigger Infuse Weapon to gain 2 Lightning Infusion | Causes your projectiles to explode on impact for 612% of Weapon Damage after consuming the corresponding Charge. |
| 50% chance for Infusion to not be Consumed when Infusing a Projectile | Effectively grants 50% more infused projectiles unless charge generation is extremely high. |
| Life Leech recovers based on your Elemental damage as well as Physical damage | Allows elemental attack builds to achieve far better sustain as elemental leech is non-existent otherwise. |
| Evasion Rating from Equipped Helmet, Gloves and Boots is doubled Evasion Rating from Equipped Body Armour is halved | Synergizes with Unique Body Armours that grant low defensive stats/no evasion to begin with such as Cloak of Flame. Can also be used with a high Armour Body Armour or Blackbraid in conjunction with Iron Reflexes. |
| Life Flasks also recover Mana Mana Flasks also recover Life | An Ultimate Life Flask recovers 3 times more than an Ultimate Mana Flask, which results in a large increase in potential Mana recovery through Flasks. |
Amazon Ascendancy Summary
The Amazon Ascendancy provides an excellent mix between offensive and defensive options. The ability to gain high amounts of Critical Hit Chance, hard hitting Infusion procs and access to elemental leech puts the Amazon in a great position to scale well into the Endgame.
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Written by: Cptn Garbage
Reviewed by: Tenkiei