The Human Kineticist: Giving Up On Ascension Mode And Speccing Out Everything Else

Yeah, Ascension mode seems like something that looked great on paper but was never really tested in-game on higher difficulties. I mean making it drain shield and deactivate when your shield is depleted just handicaps what you can actually do. The damage resistance is great but since it relies on keeping your shield active it becomes entirely counterintuitive.

Ascension mode needs to operate on a timer like Blood Rage and it should not negate your skill cooldowns. So the only time a skill should drain your shield is if it is still on cooldown as this would be a free cast, not a normal one. This would make her more viable on Gold and make Ascension mode actually useful as you benefit from having shields, not get penalized for when they absorb damage.

From experience when you ascend you get hit hard and lose it fairly quickly, especially if you have an aggressive play style. It just isn't worth taking it for the minimal bonuses it gives you. It (ascension mode) needs a fundamental rework. Whether they do this or not, is anyone's guess. On another note, the Kineticist toon looks very cool imo. That is something.

But how are you going to take out all the trash mobs with zero cooldown?

I choose option b: giving up on the character alltogether, at least untill they fix biotics. Even then I think the class will be bad on gold because all its powers are meant for red bar anemies. Feels bad that this is currently my highest level ultra rare....

Damage reduction and no cool downs. Why on earth would you not want AM? I just can't even...

Throwing thing after thing off the map is beyond fun... or even, if the damage is negligible, throwing a chair at a berserker...

Hurricane and priming ammo...

Yeah, you only lose 50 % damage reduction

/giantfacepalm

Pro tip: Use ascension. It is good.

This right here, THIS SH** RIGHT HERE!!!

Makes me want this character lol

Had me laughing I almost spit out my tea

You can control where they fly with Lift??

Sort of...

if you hold pull, they will fly towards you. If you let go of pull before you hold them in place, they will keep their momentum.

Plus you always have throw if you want to want to go for a 3-pointer instead of a layup

Thats nothing compared to launching them off the map....I mean launching like home run gone launching.........shit is sooooo much fun...

I need an acolyte in my life.... strip shields and launch... I'm going to try some boosters and see if that last evolution can become strong enough to pull shielded enemies too....if it does....woo boy...

Pull is such a fun power to use... I love to grab mooks from a distance, drag them along for a bit, punch them so they fly against a wall and then pump them full of bullets as they slide to the ground. Even the animations work just wonderfully well when you do that.

Also when I see someone throw an enemy over a ledge, I quickly pull it back and punch it back into the abyss with my own fists. The only right way to steal kills.