Acolyte of Chayula build for players struggling with or regretting this Ascendancy

Yeah I think the problem is that most acolyte builds are using the same skills as invokers, and running Acolyte just for some extra chaos damage (which isn’t scaled) and mana leech. Nothing actually leans into the Chayula fantasy and you mostly feel like a worse Invoker with a flame pick up mini game

The biggest thing I think Chink needs is “chaos damage can also leech”.

Clearly GGG is hesitant about expanding sources of leech. However I think letting one part of Chonk’s identity (leech) interact with another part of Chonk’s identity (extra chaos damage) would go a long way towards helping the ascendancy feel cohesive. They could even limit it to only attacks still.

I’m running the phys staff package right now, and sometimes it feels great but I feel like I’m trying twice as hard for a quarter(staff) of benefit. Even with the nice staggering palm buff, all the phys skills feel much weaker than the shock or freeze package, and the ES leech I get doesn’t always even feel worth losing the ES recharge.

The best Chayula build is an Invoker build.

Respect ya for putting in the effort, it's a good guide and I agree the efficiency for the Chaos resistance is slept on but fking hell I just wana blast purple GGG :(

I also agree the stinky half-builds for chaos damage and other wonky stuff is pure cope. Charged staff/heraldries/freeze or electrocute variations is the way to go.

...and then wait for the ascendancy rework or new weapons that enable leech to function.

I think the darkness replacing spirit line is bait, but the rest of it looks good in theory once we get chaos focused damage.

It would be nice to have like a "dark strike" 'auto attack' chain series along with like a palm strike to the ground sending out a wave of chaos or SOMETHING. Right now it's just lacking a main skill to use that you can't just use with invoker.

That's an invoker build