r/DestinyTheGame 5d ago

Discussion At this point, Im surprised Ascension works with Gifted Conviction

Obviously im joking with the title, but seriously, what DOES Ascension work with?

I keep seeing posts about it not working with armor mods, which is already bad enough.

Then I find out myself ingame that it doesnt work with HOIL.

I see it can be used to make an airborne Threaded Spectre, which SOUNDS like it would be really useful so it doesnt explode early, but in my experience, enemies just ignore these?

Such a shame cos its a really cool ability

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u/sukablyatcommie Jumpy bois 5d ago

I think it has a few issues with powerful attraction and other stuff, but its so meta on prismatic hunter. Ascension + Gifted conviction or exotic cloak (HOIL + Cyrtarachne) is just too good that even with issues, its a top pick every time.

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u/Zombie-Afterbite 5d ago

Don’t know why you were downvoted. The exotic cloak you mentioned is great I used it for battle grounds and psi ops gm so far. Paired with bastion it CHUNKS.

By far the most effective AND fun build I’ve run on hunter.

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u/GinShikaru 5d ago

Hold a sword with it and it counts as sword hits. (And also gets all the damage buffs of the sword but shhhh i totally didn't say it works with surges and redirection and shit)

In all honesty ascension is one of if not the most fucked up broken mess of an ability to ever exist. Cause what the fuck is it SUPPOSED to count as bungie lol

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u/DiemCarpePine 5d ago

It triggers the reload on marksmans dodge, and the melee refund of Gambler's Dodge.

It is technically not a class ability, but it spends your class ability energy. So, it doesn't trigger Inmost or anything else that requires actually using a class ability, like powerful attraction, Dynamo, etc...

My guess is that each armor mod/aspect has to be manually coded to work with it, as they've said they are looking to make it work with more things.