hero skill trees and ascension?

[originaljuke]

With all of the reworks lately, I'm looking for other players" experiences into how the game now handles hero skills with ascended rulers.

Our ascended rulers have their transformations and special ascension skills every time they play. I know they are supposed to follow the tome choices made by the player before ascending, as a means of creating a pantheon of godir that you can play against and be able to expect how they are going to develop through the game (ex. I want to fight a necromancer, so I am going to play against one of my ascended necromancers and know they are going to choose the tomes I picked for them around necromancy.)

But for hero trees, will ascended rulers follow the point allocation the player used while playing the ruler? Will my nature ritualist dragon always choose the skill path of plants and restoration when I play against them? Or will they make their own choices, and my ascended nature dragon can decide to become a necromancer when played against from the pantheon? I am really curious to know other players experiences, as I can't say I've played enough games to really get a grasp on those mechanics.

[Pantagruel]

I've seen ascended rulers as adversaries choose books I didn't take when I created the ruler.

[Estellese]

No, unfortunately this is the biggest problem with the new hero update. The ascended leaders, when under the AI's control, won't pick the same skills you did.

They do follow your tome build perfectly, just don't level the heroes correctly. They will pick skills entirely at random.

Which, in example, led to my order/nature druid/cleric character, when under the AI's control, building hard into necromancy instead of healing like they were supposed to.

It is irritating enough that I am trying to learn how to make custom classes. So I can just shove a custom class on my ascended leaders that force the AI to pick the correct skills. As there will be no other options. xD

[originaljuke]

Well drat. thanks for the feedback.