I wasn't sold on the the completely random wild card mode at first either, and while the degree of randomness can still be frustrating at times, it feels good to really open up builds once you start collecting skill cards. There are so many possibilities. I just made a paladin/warrior hybrid alt and now I'm trying to decide what I want to do for my prestige run on my main.
As someone who's made a similar build, try to get your hands on the "Spellblade" talent, it's great for builds like this where you're weaving casts in-between melee abilities, it also regens mana.
Oh yeah I’ve seen spelblade. If I stumble across it I’ll keep it for sure. I think I have the card for it now…but that doesn’t help this play through lol
I actually had maelstrom weapon locked in early on, but swapped it out before level 10. I figured with thunderclap having a pretty short cooldown I’d get reliable bolts and chain lights. Maybe I’ll get lucky and end up with maelstrom anyway.
@@Goomba_YT btw... i still agree with what you said at the beggining of clip... about useless talents/abilities that RNG gives you... one prestige I had like 5 abilities allocated in spirit while I was agility build... i hope devs will tune in up in the future... CHEERS bro and keep it up!
It's very fun..I'd suggest trying to mix in crackling thunder and stormbringer talents..for mana try to get improved stormstrike and theres also a arcane mage talent that gives chance to regen mana on melee hits..very good talent to have for that build
I made a weakaura for my version of this build to play a thunder sound whenever I got an instant Lightning Bolt/Chain Lightning. Somehow it made the build way better lol. Also, mana is definitely an issue, I'm hoping to roll Seal of Wisdom and Spellblade, I also use Wizard's Thunderclap and Wizard's Lightning Bolt
thank you for the card explanation! I've not understood what was going on there either. Now i wanna restart. But, if i do, will my new character have the cards I found on the other character? Or should I just power through and restart with the current one?
You can prestige (start over on your current character), or start a new character. As far as I can tell, the cards you unlock are available across your account. Make sure once you lock in and roll your 4 starter abilities your clear your card slots and load up your future abilities. 😎
I did almost this exact build lately. BUT Then at level 20 I got lava sweep.... It was absolutely insane. My only issue is I was planning on doing a tank build so I had to switch. It's not as great with righteous fury for tanking, without better passives at least. So I prestiged then forgot flametongue weapon... Worst run ever lol. Its got great potential I just screwed it up. There are 2 talents that massively improve this kind of build. Mental Quickness (or agility I cant remember which) that gives spell crit based on agi and hit/crit change based on Int but you have to be agility. There's a spell power talent that requires STR or AGi main stat and just makes your spells scale harder with spell power. Great with flametongue weapon and another skill I have a card for called Twisted mind which gives spell power based on level.
WHy yes you are supposed to play multiple times either through Prestige or rolling new characters. The cards you can secure is still VEEERRRYYY limited, they should expand to 6 ability cards and 8 talents. And also allow to change the cards in slot if you are under the levle of the card. Cause sometimes i slot a card in cause i really have nothing else to put in there and there's no real build comming out of it at the moment, for it to be an ability/talent that will be unlocked Only at lvl 45 or 58. And i get a Card THAT WOULD actually make this build work and viable, but you can't slot it in, you can get rid of a slotted card, but you can't put a new one instead if you're above lvl10. AND THEY SHOULD be weighted, the fact that you get useless cards that you can't use, EVEN if you can start over, is still a bad design, especially if your Luck sucks... Its ben 2 weeks since i'm trying to make a Master of SHadows build, never had the darn card roll out, i have plenty of cards that i have no interest on, but the one i wan't is not coming.
If you're ever interested in another cool melee build, try winds of winter with mutilate, frostbrand weapon, deep freeze, ice floes (talent), flash freeze (talent) as well as howl of winter, chilling strikes and other stuff that boosts frost dmg. After quite a few restarts I finally almost perfected it and I'm holding almost 20k on the 5 dummies. And with deep freeze you just bonk the bosses for 25k+
Not wild card is still shit, i have so many cards and majority all melee, i have so many ideas and yet always missing one card. Gotten so behind with content i gave up. Im done with Ascension till nexy season far to many good private servers out to be bogged down with rng garbage.
Same for me bro. Its so random it just take out fun. You an play good but if you dont have luck with rng its shit. And then farm points to buy more rerolls. At least i should choose talents, would be better
Even with some card slots the randomness killlls builds 80% of the time. Still think if you dont have defensive stance/bear form/cat form/etc. shouldnt be able to get those abilities/talents period. 200+ prestieges between 3 specs just to land 1 barely viable build, with the card packs giving me the same talents/skill cards 65% or more of the time on average. Feels a little too limiting between the RNG and small amount of cards you can use. Prolly add 1 gold/1norm skill slot and 1 more gold/norm talent slot, and weight some shit.
@@Goomba_YT wether it’s for rated pvp, bg’s, mana storm, high risk, or end game PVE I feel firm on it for all aspects. Stopped playing the last few days besides checking auctions and doing some dailies because I’m tired of it feeling less fun and more like a punishing chore. Will prolly go back into the meat grinder once I’ve had a nice break, but for now I am more than disillusioned with wild card as is.
Link to the video I referenced: ruclips.net/video/ZH7xG-kDPvU/видео.htmlsi=gZri_9OT_uNMK4Wk
Hey just got into ascension bcs of these vids
Welcome 🙏
I wasn't sold on the the completely random wild card mode at first either, and while the degree of randomness can still be frustrating at times, it feels good to really open up builds once you start collecting skill cards. There are so many possibilities. I just made a paladin/warrior hybrid alt and now I'm trying to decide what I want to do for my prestige run on my main.
Yeah it feels a lot better when you can at least set a foundation/direction.
Yo, Vynlumen here. For mana you can use the dreamstate, and renewed energy enchants.
Cool. I have to pick those up.
The manastorm pot gives you mana as well. Spam it!
I do!!! Or at least, I intend to 😂. Too many buttons too mash, globals too slow lol.
As someone who's made a similar build, try to get your hands on the "Spellblade" talent, it's great for builds like this where you're weaving casts in-between melee abilities, it also regens mana.
Oh yeah I’ve seen spelblade. If I stumble across it I’ll keep it for sure. I think I have the card for it now…but that doesn’t help this play through lol
i think its mana reave or something is better
@@Goomba_YT
you should drop thunder and lightning for lightning mastery and improved shields with maelstorm weapons if you have it...
cool video tho!
I actually had maelstrom weapon locked in early on, but swapped it out before level 10. I figured with thunderclap having a pretty short cooldown I’d get reliable bolts and chain lights.
Maybe I’ll get lucky and end up with maelstrom anyway.
@@Goomba_YT btw... i still agree with what you said at the beggining of clip... about useless talents/abilities that RNG gives you... one prestige I had like 5 abilities allocated in spirit while I was agility build... i hope devs will tune in up in the future...
CHEERS bro and keep it up!
It's very fun..I'd suggest trying to mix in crackling thunder and stormbringer talents..for mana try to get improved stormstrike and theres also a arcane mage talent that gives chance to regen mana on melee hits..very good talent to have for that build
Thanks for the tips. At this point I'm at the Mercy of the RNG gods lol@@joshuawells-rb8ef
@@ancornapowaznie2344only 5 that don't fit ur build? That's insane luck ive had prestiges where I've had 5 that did fit my build rofl
I made a weakaura for my version of this build to play a thunder sound whenever I got an instant Lightning Bolt/Chain Lightning. Somehow it made the build way better lol.
Also, mana is definitely an issue, I'm hoping to roll Seal of Wisdom and Spellblade, I also use Wizard's Thunderclap and Wizard's Lightning Bolt
Yeah. I need some weak aura but been too lazy lol.
Great vid, can you tell people about all the legendary cards you can find in the world guaranteed, so it takes the randomness out of the game a bit
I may be able to make a video about that.
Where did you get the Assault and battery card?
was it a random pack or a location you got it from?
I just randomly had it. Here is a link to a list of known drop locations: db.ascension.gg/?guide=42
@@Goomba_YT that card isn't on there. Also trying to get lightning blade
Self res spells and abilities do not work in solo Manastorm.
Good to know. Fortunately I never had to test it for myself 😂
thank you for the card explanation! I've not understood what was going on there either. Now i wanna restart. But, if i do, will my new character have the cards I found on the other character? Or should I just power through and restart with the current one?
You can prestige (start over on your current character), or start a new character.
As far as I can tell, the cards you unlock are available across your account.
Make sure once you lock in and roll your 4 starter abilities your clear your card slots and load up your future abilities.
😎
Skill cards are account wide I beleave
So if Im going Free Pick what is your build? I would LOVE to do a Thor build
Oof...I haven't played ascension in a hot minute =/. Really couldn't tell you what's good right now. Sorry!
Use your pot on CD for manastorms. 25% mana every 6 seconds.
I try too! I have a lotta buttons to mash lol.
I’m 60 now and my mana problems have been somewhat alleviated.
I did almost this exact build lately.
BUT Then at level 20 I got lava sweep.... It was absolutely insane. My only issue is I was planning on doing a tank build so I had to switch. It's not as great with righteous fury for tanking, without better passives at least.
So I prestiged then forgot flametongue weapon... Worst run ever lol.
Its got great potential I just screwed it up.
There are 2 talents that massively improve this kind of build.
Mental Quickness (or agility I cant remember which) that gives spell crit based on agi and hit/crit change based on Int but you have to be agility.
There's a spell power talent that requires STR or AGi main stat and just makes your spells scale harder with spell power. Great with flametongue weapon and another skill I have a card for called Twisted mind which gives spell power based on level.
Yeah I've still got some work today on this build. He's 60 now....just have to get some lucky rerolls
WHy yes you are supposed to play multiple times either through Prestige or rolling new characters.
The cards you can secure is still VEEERRRYYY limited, they should expand to 6 ability cards and 8 talents.
And also allow to change the cards in slot if you are under the levle of the card.
Cause sometimes i slot a card in cause i really have nothing else to put in there and there's no real build comming out of it at the moment, for it to be an ability/talent that will be unlocked Only at lvl 45 or 58.
And i get a Card THAT WOULD actually make this build work and viable, but you can't slot it in, you can get rid of a slotted card, but you can't put a new one instead if you're above lvl10.
AND THEY SHOULD be weighted, the fact that you get useless cards that you can't use, EVEN if you can start over, is still a bad design, especially if your Luck sucks...
Its ben 2 weeks since i'm trying to make a Master of SHadows build, never had the darn card roll out, i have plenty of cards that i have no interest on, but the one i wan't is not coming.
You make some good points.
If you're ever interested in another cool melee build, try winds of winter with mutilate, frostbrand weapon, deep freeze, ice floes (talent), flash freeze (talent) as well as howl of winter, chilling strikes and other stuff that boosts frost dmg. After quite a few restarts I finally almost perfected it and I'm holding almost 20k on the 5 dummies. And with deep freeze you just bonk the bosses for 25k+
That sounds fun…like an ice rogue.
dont u need a certain talent to make deep freeze usable ?
Not wild card is still shit, i have so many cards and majority all melee, i have so many ideas and yet always missing one card. Gotten so behind with content i gave up. Im done with Ascension till nexy season far to many good private servers out to be bogged down with rng garbage.
That’s fair. It’s a game meant for enjoyment. If you aren’t liking it, best thing is to put it down.
Same for me bro. Its so random it just take out fun. You an play good but if you dont have luck with rng its shit. And then farm points to buy more rerolls. At least i should choose talents, would be better
Even with some card slots the randomness killlls builds 80% of the time. Still think if you dont have defensive stance/bear form/cat form/etc. shouldnt be able to get those abilities/talents period. 200+ prestieges between 3 specs just to land 1 barely viable build, with the card packs giving me the same talents/skill cards 65% or more of the time on average. Feels a little too limiting between the RNG and small amount of cards you can use. Prolly add 1 gold/1norm skill slot and 1 more gold/norm talent slot, and weight some shit.
That fair. I haven’t really tried to push endgame content but have had a few builds that felt pretty sub par.
@@Goomba_YT wether it’s for rated pvp, bg’s, mana storm, high risk, or end game PVE I feel firm on it for all aspects. Stopped playing the last few days besides checking auctions and doing some dailies because I’m tired of it feeling less fun and more like a punishing chore. Will prolly go back into the meat grinder once I’ve had a nice break, but for now I am more than disillusioned with wild card as is.