Oracle vs Shaman

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Oracle and Shaman are both Druid ascendancies. Oracle has 8 notables and 8 small passives, mostly about spells (3), critical hits (2) and totems (2). Shaman has 8 notables and 8 small passives, mostly about elemental (4), mana (2) and resistances (2). The biggest differences: elemental (0 vs 4), spells (3 vs 1) and critical hits (2 vs 0). Patch 0.5.5, from the game files.

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Oracle

8 notables · 8 small · +2 passive points

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  Converging PathsNotable

  Grants skill Moment of VulnerabilitySend out a temporal Nova to take advantage of enemies' moment of vulnerability. Hitting enemies that are Primed for Stun, Electrocution, or Freeze causes a visage of them to appear, lasting as long as the original target would have been affected by the form of Immobilisation used to create the visage. A portion of the damage dealt to visages is also dealt to the original.
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  Entwined RealitiesNotable

  Non-Keystone Passive Skills in Medium Radius of allocated Keystone Passive Skills can be allocated without being connected to your tree
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  Fateful VisionNotable

  Grants skill Align FateWhile active, visages of yourself from alternate timelines will occasionally appear and cast one of your Spells from your first valid Weapon Set. Until the next visage appears, your next cast of the same Spell aligns your fate, Empowering that Spell. Visages can only cast damaging, non-Channelling, non-Buff Spells you could cast that have no cooldown.
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  Forced OutcomeNotable

  Inevitable Critical Hits
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  Harmony WithinNotable

  Hit damage is taken from Mana before Life if your current Mana is higher than your current Life

  15% less maximum Life

  15% less maximum Mana
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  The Lesser HarmNotable

  Enemy Critical Hit Chance against you is Unlucky

  Damage of Enemies Hitting you is Unlucky
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  The Unseen PathNotable

  Walk the Paths Not Taken
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  Unnamed HeartwoodNotable

  +1 to maximum number of Summoned Totems

  Totems die 6 seconds after their Life is reduced to 0

Small passives

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  Critical Damage Bonus on You

  Hits against you have 12% reduced Critical Damage Bonus
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  Critical Hit Chance

  12% increased Critical Hit Chance
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  Immobilisation Buildup

  20% increased Immobilisation buildup
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  Life and Mana Regeneration Rate

  8% increased Life Regeneration rate

  8% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
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  Passive Point×2

  Grants 1 Passive Skill Point
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  Spell Damage

  12% increased Spell Damage
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  Totem Cast and Attack Speed

  Spells Cast by Totems have 5% increased Cast Speed

  Attacks used by Totems have 5% increased Attack Speed

Shaman

8 notables · 8 small

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  Avatar of EvolutionNotable

  5% of Physical Damage taken as Fire Damage

  5% of Physical Damage taken as Lightning Damage

  5% of Physical Damage taken as Cold Damage

  Adaptations have a duration of 5 seconds

  Double Adaptation Effect
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  Bringer of the ApocalypseNotable

  Grants skill ApocalypseBuild Glory by Hitting enemies with Elemental damage. When you have maximum Glory, you may become the walking Apocalypse for a duration, Triggering one of multiple powerful Elemental Skills at an interval while this Buff lasts.
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  Druidic ChampionNotable

  Every 2 Rage also grants 1% more Spell damage
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  Furious WellspringNotable

  No Inherent loss of Rage

  Regenerate 6% of your maximum Rage per second

  Increases and Reductions to Mana Regeneration Rate also apply to Rage Regeneration Rate

  Skills have +5 to Rage cost

  +7 to Maximum Rage
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  Reactive GrowthNotable

  10% less Elemental Damage taken

  Adapt to the highest Elemental Damage Type of each Hit you take

  10% less Damage taken of each Elemental Damage Type per matching Adaptation
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  Sacred FlowNotable

  +40 to Spirit for each of your empty Charm slots
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  Turning of the SeasonsNotable

  Enemies in your Presence have Exposure

  Gain 10% of Damage as Extra Damage of a random Element
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  Wisdom of the MajiNotable

  Gain the benefits of Bonded modifiers on Runes and Idols

Small passives

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  Defences

  10% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
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  Elemental Damage×2

  12% increased Elemental Damage
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  Elemental Resistances×2

  +3% to all Elemental Resistances
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  Flask Recovery

  12% increased Life and Mana Recovery from Flasks
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  Maximum Rage×2

  +3 to Maximum Rage

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