I'm not sure if it's been brought to Bungie's attention, but Ascension really needs to be fixed in terms of how it works with armor mods. Class item mods such as Reaper, Powerful Attraction, and I think Distribution ALL do NOT work with Ascension. I don't think this is an intentional feature from Bungie. I would really like to see this fixed soon as this has been a problem with Ascension for a very long time. Having Ascension activate these mods would be a fantastic feature.
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It's intentional. It was basically game breaking mostly pvp but also a bit of pve so bungie ripped it's class ability status from it. Like 1 season later they basically re-looked at it and said "It can have SOME of it back".