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Best Ascendancy for Attack Speed

9 ascendancies ranked by nodes about attack speed · Path of Exile 2✓ Checked against game files · 0.5.5
AmazonAmazonHuntress · 3 nodes

Amazon (Huntress) has the most ascendancy nodes about attack speed: 3, among them In for the Kill, Skill Speed and Skill Speed. Next: Acolyte of Chayula (2), Martial Artist (2) and Pathfinder (2). 9 of 22 ascendancies have at least one such node. Counted: nodes that change attack or skill speed. Patch 0.5.5, from the game files.

A count is not a damage number: one notable can matter more than four small passives, so each row lists the nodes it counts. Pick the ascendancy, then read them. Abyssal Lich is left out: its nodes are in the files but not on this patch's passive tree.

Ascendancies by nodes about attack speed

  1. 1
    Amazon
    Huntress · 1 notable
    3nodes
    • In for the Kill
      40% increased Skill Speed while an enemy with an Open Weakness is in your Presence
    • Skill Speed
      4% increased Skill Speed
    • Skill Speed
      4% increased Skill Speed
  2. 2
    Acolyte of Chayula
    Monk · 0 notables
    2nodes
    • Skill Speed
      4% increased Skill Speed
    • Skill Speed
      4% increased Skill Speed
  3. 3
    Martial Artist
    Monk · 0 notables
    2nodes
    • Attack Speed
      4% increased Attack Speed
    • Attack Speed
      4% increased Attack Speed
  4. 4
    Pathfinder
    Ranger · 0 notables
    2nodes
    • Skill Speed
      4% increased Skill Speed
    • Skill Speed
      4% increased Skill Speed
  5. 5
    Gemling Legionnaire
    Mercenary · 1 notable
    1nodes
  6. 6
    Tactician
    Mercenary · 1 notable
    1nodes
  7. 7
    Chronomancer
    Sorceress · 0 notables
    1nodes
    • Skill Speed and Area of Effect
      4% increased Skill Speed
  8. 8
    Deadeye
    Ranger · 0 notables
    1nodes
    • Skill Speed
      4% increased Skill Speed
  9. 9
    Oracle
    Druid · 0 notables
    1nodes
    • Totem Cast and Attack Speed
      Attacks used by Totems have 5% increased Attack Speed

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How it is counted: a node counts when one of its lines (or the description of the skill it grants) matches the theme's words, read from the game's passive tree and stat files. Compare two ascendancies to see all their nodes.