I had to ascend THREE times before I managed to get a damage modifier other than 1. First time I ascended, I chose the 2 feather cost upgrade and nothing noticeable happened. Second time I ascended, I rolled a feather twice and both resulted in 1. Third time I ascended, I again rolled twice. First was a 1. Second was a 5.
Are those rolls weighted to prefer lower values?
Before my third attempt to ascend, I was going to try and export my save data to import it back and try again if I kept rolling 1. Unfortunately, Chrome won't allow me to save that to my clipboard. The font's also too fuzzy to bother trying to copy manually.