Ascension Ending: Specific Year Not Required

[GrandMajora]

Okay, so there might be some confusion regarding this particular requirement for the ascension ending. Even though the game says the time frame will be between Gozran 16-21st in the year 4717, it seems that multiple guides have been claiming the year is actually irrelevant. One of the guides here on Steam says a reddit user achieved the ending in the year 4716, and now even the fextralife wiki is stating the year is irrelevant.

https://pathfinderwrathoftherighteous.wiki.fextralife.com/Endings

In other words, it seems that people are free to relax and take their time with the Ascension ending, instead of feeling rushed to complete everything before a specific deadline. You just need to visit Threshold on the appropriate month.

[Abrusio]

I can confirm that it does work for the year 4716 : I rushed to do everything necessary to be able to make it. If you are aiming for 4716, It's well timed, because it means you don't have the luxury to spend 6 months in act 3 or 5 to max all crusade stats, in fact I had to go to act 4 as soon as I was able to (Azata can go earlier and not wait for Galfrey but I remember waiting for at least 3 weeks to finish some relics). It is also not too time constrainted to achieve it even on hard which meant I had to rest more often.

I played Azata, and I think the Angel mythic path would have it easier because of the earlier access to Pulura's Fall, which means the Angel can research Pulura's notes during Act 3 (when we have more time to do this). At the beginning of Act V, I had a little under 2 months before Gozran 16th. and I barely made it with a few days to spare, doing research all the time. Also, I can confirm that "Northern Light" is not necessary : I did not have the time for the 20 days research it took, and gambled to just ignore it. I had two research project "Areelu's drafts", and did them both : I don't know if it is a bug of if they are two different things and required. At the moment the text that is supposed to display when a research is done does not show, that's the reason we would not know of the date of the 3rd week of Gozran if no for data mining.

If I had to do it again, I would have placed all my forts during Act 3, because I had no time at all to do it during Act 5. I kept a couple of upgrade to have better locations, but never had the time to do it. Their teleportation circles would have made my life easier...

[Sevethat]

In steam guide section about this specific ending states clearly in "Important requirements":
"It is in between 16 and 21 dates of this month. According to Redditor Nalikill he achieved this ending on 4716, so it appears to be a month requirement not a year. Meaning as long as you do the ending between the dates of 16 of Gozran and 21st of Gozran you should achieve the ending."

[Kel'Ithra]

What matters is you do it within one year of killing Baphomet... since you need to kill both Bapho and Deskary permanently. So if you do it more than a year later.... you might end up unable to do it properly. And then do it on the specific month between the 16-21.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Kel'Ithra:

What matters is you do it within one year of killing Baphomet... since you need to kill both Bapho and Deskary permanently. So if you do it more than a year later.... you might end up unable to do it properly. And then do it on the specific month between the 16-21.

That would make sense.

[=DeadShot=]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Kel'Ithra:

What matters is you do it within one year of killing Baphomet... since you need to kill both Bapho and Deskary permanently. So if you do it more than a year later.... you might end up unable to do it properly. And then do it on the specific month between the 16-21.

That would make sense.

For me I finished act 4 in February 4716 and still got the ascension on April 4717 despite being more than 1 year before killing Baphomet and me going to Threshold.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

For me I finished act 4 in February 4716 and still got the ascension on April 4717 despite being more than 1 year before killing Baphomet and me going to Threshold.

That's good to hear. Could just be an oversight, but I'm hoping the game not keeping track of that stuff is intentional. I've already got Ascension Ending as a Trickster, but I wasn't a fan of just how strict the requirements are.

[Abrusio]

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

That would make sense.

For me I finished act 4 in February 4716 and still got the ascension on April 4717 despite being more than 1 year before killing Baphomet and me going to Threshold.

Did you get the ending slide with Baphomet licking its wounds in Ineluctable Prison, or the one where he is dead for good ? I would guess you only have to kill him twice in a year to get the "good" slide, but it should not prevent you from ascending.

[=DeadShot=]

Originally posted by Abrusio:

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

For me I finished act 4 in February 4716 and still got the ascension on April 4717 despite being more than 1 year before killing Baphomet and me going to Threshold.

Did you get the ending slide with Baphomet licking its wounds in Ineluctable Prison, or the one where he is dead for good ? I would guess you only have to kill him twice in a year to get the "good" slide, but it should not prevent you from ascending.

Defeated for good. That were my ending slides. The ones with Asmodeus laughing at Baphomet death. Also my realm composed by both Deskari / Baphomet Abyssal realms.

[=DeadShot=]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

For me I finished act 4 in February 4716 and still got the ascension on April 4717 despite being more than 1 year before killing Baphomet and me going to Threshold.

That's good to hear. Could just be an oversight, but I'm hoping the game not keeping track of that stuff is intentional. I've already got Ascension Ending as a Trickster, but I wasn't a fan of just how strict the requirements are.

I couldn't reach Threshold for April 4716. It was less than 2 month between when I finish act 4 and April 4716.

[Abrusio]

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

Originally posted by Abrusio:

Did you get the ending slide with Baphomet licking its wounds in Ineluctable Prison, or the one where he is dead for good ? I would guess you only have to kill him twice in a year to get the "good" slide, but it should not prevent you from ascending.

Defeated for good. That were my ending slides. The ones with Asmodeus laughing at Baphomet death. Also my realm composed by both Deskari / Baphomet Abyssal realms.

That's weird, but it may mean that all the "killed twice within a year" is only for cosmetics then. It's a bit of a disappointment...

[=DeadShot=]

Originally posted by Abrusio:

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

Defeated for good. That were my ending slides. The ones with Asmodeus laughing at Baphomet death. Also my realm composed by both Deskari / Baphomet Abyssal realms.

That's weird, but it may mean that all the "killed twice within a year" is only for cosmetics then. It's a bit of a disappointment...

Or it was allowed was for edge cases like mine(very short time between the end chapter 4 and the april 4716). So that players should not be forced to complete the entire of main quest of act 5 and get the secret ending in less than 2 months.

[Abrusio]

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

Originally posted by Abrusio:

That's weird, but it may mean that all the "killed twice within a year" is only for cosmetics then. It's a bit of a disappointment...

Or it was allowed was for edge cases like mine(very short time between the end chapter 4 and the april 4716). So that players should not be forced to complete the entire of main quest of act 5 and get the secret ending in less than 2 months.

That's what I had to do : it was doable but there was not a huge margin for errors (a few days, maybe more if not for the bug of the duplicated areelu's drafts researchs). I sacrified a few quests here and there that I never did in this playthrough (like chill creek, sorry Jernaugh, don't think it change much for you in the end).

I kind of like the time constraints if it is reasonable, and in this case I think it is.

[LordSith]

In fact 2 months is totally okay unless you try to get the crusade thing done. Then it's not because projects take more than 2 months to level up from 5 to 8 ranks.

[=DeadShot=]

Sorry to all I killed Baphomet and ended act 4 on 9 April 4716. Looked now and loaded a older save. So if only 4716 was the date I was allowed to do the secret ending was 16-21 April 4716 I would had less than 1 month to complete act 5 main quest and go to Threshold. Maybe that was the reason I was allowed to ascend when I reached Threshold on 17 April 4717. I thought I killed Baphomet in February 4716 but I was wrong.

[jsaving]

The year does not matter for the secret ending. It "should" matter according to in-game lore, but it doesn't.