Best Ascendancy for…

Each theme ranks the ascendancies by how many of their nodes are about it, counted from the node text in the game files. Minions: Disciple of Varashta (4 nodes). Poison: Pathfinder (3 nodes). Critical hits: Blood Mage (5 nodes). Patch 0.5.5, from the game files.

Build styles

Minions#1 Disciple of Varashta · 4 nodesCompanions#1 Spirit Walker · 7 nodesSpells#1 Blood Mage · 4 nodesMelee#1 Titan · 5 nodesProjectiles#1 Deadeye · 7 nodesAttack speed#1 Amazon · 3 nodesCritical hits#1 Blood Mage · 5 nodesCurses#1 Lich · 4 nodesTotems#1 Tactician · 4 nodesCharges#1 Deadeye · 4 nodesArea of effect#1 Pathfinder · 5 nodesCooldowns#1 Chronomancer · 3 nodesWarcries#1 Warbringer · 2 nodes

Damage and ailments

Fire#1 Infernalist · 2 nodesCold and freeze#1 Stormweaver · 5 nodesLightning and shock#1 Stormweaver · 5 nodesChaos#1 Acolyte of Chayula · 5 nodesPhysical#1 Amazon · 2 nodesElemental#1 Amazon · 5 nodesIgnite#1 Infernalist · 3 nodesPoison#1 Pathfinder · 3 nodesBleeding#1 Blood Mage · 2 nodesStun#1 Titan · 3 nodesLeech#1 Acolyte of Chayula · 2 nodes

Defences and resources

Block and shields#1 Warbringer · 4 nodesLife#1 Infernalist · 11 nodesEnergy shield#1 Lich · 7 nodesMana#1 Lich · 6 nodesArmour#1 Tactician · 4 nodesEvasion#1 Invoker · 4 nodesResistances#1 Smith of Kitava · 5 nodesSpirit#1 Invoker · 2 nodesFlasks and charms#1 Pathfinder · 8 nodesMovement speed#1 Ritualist · 3 nodes

Attribute stacking

Strength stacking#1 Smith of Kitava · 2 nodesDexterity stacking#1 Invoker · 1 nodeIntelligence stacking#1 Invoker · 1 node

See every class on the class list, or compare two ascendancies node by node.