Ascension sounds great, building what you want, how you want is a fantastic idea.... So where does it fail utterly ???
Easy, when the worst kind of gameplay absolutely dominates an aspect of the game, the most obvious example of this in Asceniosn is BG PVP, which is utterly and completely ruined by groups of players fear/cc spamming to the point where there is NO gameplay left, you either have to join the ranks of the players ruining the gameplay or you have to ruin a spec by putting so much anti Fear/CC in it that it ends up useless
I enjoyed leveling a couple of alts, and then hit the 70 + BG's my passion, having done 16 years from Vanilla on WOW in PVP,
3 months of that experience, have left me convinced that the DEV's simply don't care, no diminishing returns on fear or CC spam in a game where those players who enjoy killing a player who cant fight back can take every stun, fear and CC available to every class then group up with others doing the same to chain constantly has ruined the game for me, ill go back maybe to vanilla and i see dozens of players saying the same thing in every BG