Grinding Gear Games (GGG) has announced the Legacy of Phrecia event for Path of Exile 1, introducing 19 brand-new ascendancy classes, replacing the existing ones for the duration of the event. This unexpected update comes after the 3.26 delay and is a response to community feedback. Unlike traditional leagues, this event allows for more experimental mechanics, including completely new ascendancies with unique playstyles. In this tier list, we will be ranking some of the most noteworthy new ascendancies that have been revealed so far, evaluating their strengths, weaknesses, and potential impact on the meta.
PoE 1 LoP Tier List - Best New Ascendancies in Path of Exile Legacy of Phrecia Event
With the upcoming Legacy of Phrecia event in Path of Exile 1, players will experience a fresh twist on the game’s core mechanics. Instead of selecting from the usual 19 ascendancies, every class will receive a brand-new ascendancy, completely replacing the existing ones. This event is a direct response to community feedback following the delay of Patch 3.26, and it offers a month-long opportunity to experiment with new and unconventional builds.
The Legacy of Phrecia event brings an experimental approach, allowing Grinding Gear Games to test ideas that may have been scrapped or left unexplored in the past. Some of these ascendancies incorporate mechanics that already exist in the game but have never been fully utilized in this way. This event is reminiscent of Crangled League, where passive trees and ascendancies were shuffled around, but this time, we’re getting entirely new concepts.
Below we will be previewing and ranking all the new 19 ascendancies based on their potential in the Legacy of Phrecia event:
1. Architect of Chaos (Templar) - S Tier
The Architect of Chaos is a Vaal skill specialist, focusing on reducing soul costs, increasing Vaal skill duration, and enhancing corrupted items. This ascendancy is the best choice for anyone looking to fully embrace Vaal mechanics. This ascendancy is the best choice for Vaal skill-based builds, offering insane scaling and great survivability options. It is expected to be one of the strongest ascendancies in the event.
Key Mechanics
+3 to all Vaal Skill Gems: Massive boost to Vaal skills like Vaal Lightning Strike.
50% reduced Vaal Soul cost: Allows for more frequent use of Vaal skills.
50% reduced Soul Gain Prevention duration: Helps sustain Vaal skills in long fights.
Impure Blood: Skills cost life instead of Mana, freeing up Mana for auras.
Glimpse Chaos: Increased Life and Energy Shield per corrupted item, but reduces resistances.
Strengths
Perfect for Vaal skill builds like Vaal Blade Vortex and Vaal Lightning Strike.
Strong synergy with corrupted gear.
Sustains Vaal skills better than any other ascendancy.
Weaknesses
2. Servant of Arakaali (Shadow) - A Tier
The Servant of Arakaali introduces a spider-themed minion playstyle with a mix of poison damage, Critical Strike scaling, and debuffs. It allows Shadow to embrace Necromancer-like mechanics while incorporating Wither and Aspect of the Spider. A solid Chaos-based minion ascendancy that offers poison synergy, Crit scaling, and strong debuffs. It has great potential for Arakaali’s Fang builds and other poison minion setups.
Key Mechanics
Raise Spiders on Kill: Automatically summon spiders that assist in combat.
Minions have 50% chance to Poison and inflict Wither on hit.
Neurotoxins: Minions gain +5% Critical Strike multiplier per Wither stack, up to 75% Crit Multi.
Silk Dancer: Enemies affected by your Spider Webs take 15% reduced damage and have -15% to all resistances.
Aspect of the Spider: Automatically applied, aiding in crowd control.
Strengths
Minion Critical Strike scaling opens up new build possibilities.
Wither and Poison synergies make it a strong Chaos-based ascendancy.
Aspect of the Spider provides debuffs and defensive utility.
Weaknesses
3. Harbinger (Witch) - B Tier
The Harbinger ascendancy brings an entirely new approach to time-based mechanics, cooldown recovery, and Harbinger summons. This marks one of the most unique additions to Path of Exile, building upon existing Harbinger-themed items while offering massive buffs to time-related mechanics. Harbinger is a solid choice for spellcasters and trigger builds, offering powerful buffs that were previously difficult to obtain. Its cooldown recovery focus makes it one of the most mechanically interesting ascendancies in this event.
Key Mechanics
40% increased cooldown recovery rate: Strong for trigger-based builds like Impending Doom.
Summon Greater Harbinger of Time: Grants action speed buffs similar to Tailwind.
100% increased Area of Effect of Hex skills: Great for Hex-based builds like Doom Blast.
Summon Greater Harbinger of the Arcane: Grants Arcane Surge uptime.
Temporal Chains has no reservation if used as an aura.
Strengths
Massive cooldown reduction, making it ideal for trigger builds.
Hex-based bonuses make it perfect for Impending Doom.
Harbinger buffs provide strong utility.
Weaknesses
4. Gambler (Duelist) - C Tier
The Gambler ascendancy is built around luck-based mechanics, offering high-risk, high-reward gameplay. While this might appeal to some players, the randomized nature of its bonuses makes it unpredictable and potentially frustrating. While Gambler offers potential for high damage, its reliance on RNG makes it hard to optimize. However, Reversed Odds alone makes it a strong pick for elemental builds.
Key Mechanics
Risk Aversion: 50% chance to avoid Elemental ailments and being stunned. Can be strong when combined with other ailment mitigation.
Growing Accumulator: Adds a 15% chance to deal triple damage and a 30% chance to deal double damage, but at the cost of dealing 25% less damage overall.
Reverse Odds: 50% chance to invert enemy Elemental resistances, potentially making enemies much weaker to your attacks.
Spectacular Parlay: Critical Strike chance is lucky, but damage with hits is unlucky, creating an inconsistent damage output.
Strengths
Can completely ignore enemy resistances with Reverse Odds, making Elemental builds viable without needing exposure or curses.
Block mechanics (Heads and Tails) allow for spell suppression-based defenses with high attack block.
Critical Strike chance being lucky is a strong offensive boost.
Weaknesses
Unlucky damage rolls significantly reduce reliability.
Randomized block effectiveness makes defensive planning difficult.
Not ideal for damage-over-time builds like Ignite or Poison due to inconsistent damage output.
Note:
Since only four ascendancies have been publicly revealed at the time of writing, we will be previewing and ranking them based on their potential. This tier list will be updated as more ascendancies are announced. Stay tuned and check back!
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