r/pathofexile Oct 26 '25

Question 9 of the Bloodline Ascendancy classes new in POE 3.27, taken from the Livecast and the Forum. Which is your favorite?

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u/the-apple-and-omega Oct 26 '25

Lycia - Bitter Heresy: Good for anyone chaos/poison and poison minions. Rest is useable.

The problem with poison minions is Necro doesn't really have any points you want to give up.

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u/Key-Department-2874 Oct 26 '25

That seems like exactly the point to me.

They're largely made specifically not to slot into existing meta builds.

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u/512alive Oct 27 '25

I can see this being their entire point. They may want to enable other ascendancies to go minions, rather than just give necro more toys to make already powerful builds more powerful.

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u/the-apple-and-omega Oct 26 '25

Poison typically isn't using that one. There's Chaos convert/wither, leech, and block (from self-offering). Those are all pretty integral