Chieftain

Chieftain

Str

	The Ancestors speak through your clenched fists.

This page is about the Ascendancy class. For the Ascendant passive, see Chieftain (Ascendant passive).

For the monster type, see Ape chieftain.

The Chieftain is an Ascendancy class for Marauders.

Overview

The Cheiftain is a fire oriented Ascendancy class that has a good mix of offensive and defensive capabilities. The Chieftain Ascendancy offers support to fire damage builds, fire damage over time builds, strike skills, slam skills, strength stacking, totem skills, and explode capabilities. Furthermore, all of his minor passives grant life regeneration, bolstering life sustain.

Tasalio, Cleansing Water and Valako, Storm's Embrace grants substantial bonuses to cold and lighting resistances just by investing on fire resistance. Arohongui, Moon's Presence lets your totems taunt enemies to both redirect enemies and heal you upon taking damage. The Chieftain can also opt to use Hinekora, Death's Fury against high density, high durability encounters along with utilising ignite proliferation. In terms of strength stacking, Ngamahu, Flame's Advance will allow the Chieftain to reach new heights, while also allowing pure fire damage weapons to have more effective usage and granting the Chieftain more flexibility within the passive tree. Tawhoa, Forest's Strength allows the Chieftain to call upon a mirage to duplicate his strikes and slams, and Tukohama, War's Herald grants the Chieftain Fist of War SupportFist of War SupportSlam, Attack, Melee, AoE, Support
Icon: X
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 38Supports slam skills, providing a powerful boost when they're used, with a delay before they can be boosted again. Cannot support Vaal skills or triggered skills. Cannot modify the skills of minions. Only skills you use yourself can receive the boost.Attacks with Supported Skill are Ancestrally Boosted, no more than once every (2.5-1.8) seconds
Ancestral Boost does not apply to repeats of the Attack
Ancestrally Boosted Slams deal (70-98)% more Damage with Hits
Ancestrally Boosted Slams deal (50-69)% more Damage with Ailments
Ancestrally Boosted Slams have (40-59)% increased Area of Effect

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Area of EffectThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. or Ancestral Call SupportAncestral Call SupportSupport, Melee, Attack, Strike
Icon: A
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 4Supports melee strike skills, causing them to also strike at extra targets simultaneously. The extra targets must be a minimum distance from the user. If supporting a minion attack skill, the minion's skills will not also strike extra targets. Cannot support Vaal skills or triggered skills.Supported Strike Skills target 2 additional nearby Enemies
Supported Skills deal (19-0)% less Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Extra Targets for Supported Skills can be found (0.75-15)% further awayThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. to augment socketed slam or strike skills in his body armour respectively. The Chieftain can opt to use Ramako, Sun's Light to completely strip highly fire resistant enemies of their resistances against damage over time.

Passive skills

Chieftain skill tree

Minor skills

This class has the following minor passive skills:

Name	Stats
Life Regeneration, Fire Damage	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 10% increased Fire Damage [1] [2] [3]
Life Regeneration, Fire Resistance	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second +15% to Fire Resistance [1] [2]
Life Regeneration, Melee Damage	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 10% increased Melee Damage [1] [2]
Life Regeneration, Totem Placement Speed	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 10% increased Totem Placement speed [1]

Notable skills

This class has the following notable passive skills:

Skill	Modifiers	Prerequisite	Preceding Passive
Tasalio, Cleansing Water	Modifiers to Fire Resistance also apply to Cold and Lightning Resistances at 50% of their Value Unaffected by Ignite		Life Regeneration, Fire Resistance
Valako, Storm's Embrace	Modifiers to Maximum Fire Resistance also apply to Maximum Cold and Lightning Resistances	Tasalio, Cleansing Water	Life Regeneration, Fire Resistance
Hinekora, Death's Fury	Enemies you or your Totems Kill have 5% chance to Explode, dealing 500% of their maximum Life as Fire Damage		Life Regeneration, Fire Damage
Arohongui, Moon's Presence	Totems Taunt Enemies around them for 4 seconds when Summoned Recoup 25% of Damage Taken by your Totems as Life Totems Regenerate 1 Life per second per 4 of your Life Recovery per second from Regeneration		Life Regeneration, Totem Placement Speed
Ngamahu, Flame's Advance	Non-Unique Jewels cause Increases and Reductions to other Damage Types in a Large Radius to be Transformed to apply to Fire Damage Non-Unique Jewels cause Small and Notable Passive Skills in a Large Radius to also grant +3 to Strength		Life Regeneration, Fire Damage
Tawhoa, Forest's Strength	Trigger Level 20 Tawhoa's Chosen when you Attack with a Non-Vaal Slam or Strike Skill near an Enemy		Life Regeneration, Melee Damage
Tukohama, War's Herald	Skills from Equipped Body Armour are Supported by Level 30 Ancestral Call Skills from Equipped Body Armour are Supported by Level 20 Fist of War	Tawhoa, Forest's Strength	Life Regeneration, Melee Damage
Ramako, Sun's Light	Nearby Enemy Monsters' Fire Resistance against Damage over Time is -20% while you are Stationary		Life Regeneration, Fire Damage

Version History

Version	Changes
3.22.0	The Chieftain ascendancy class has been reworked. Valako, Storm's Embrace now requires Tasalio, Cleansing Water. Their preceding minor nodes now grants fire resistance and life regeneration. Tukohama, War's Herald now requires Tawhoa, Forest's Strength. Their preceding minor nodes now grants melee damage and life regeneration. Hinekora, Death's Fury no longer has a prerequisite notable.
3.11.0	Tawhoa, Forest's Strength has moved and is no longer a prerequisite for Valako, Storm's Embrace. It has been redesigned, and now grants level 20 Tawhoa's Chosen skill, which is triggered when you use a slam attack, creating an image which mirrors your Slam attack. This skill has a short cooldown. A new small passive leads to Tawhoa, Forest's Strength. It grants 10% increased Area of Effect and 0.5% Life Regeneration per Second. Valako, Storm's Embrace no longer grants 3% more damage for each Endurance Charge lost recently, up to 15%. Instead, it now grants 15% more damage for 8 seconds when you lose or consume any Endurance Charges. The small passive leading to Valako, Storm's Embrace no longer grants 15% increased Endurance Charge Duration. It now grants 5% chance to gain an Endurance Charge on Kill. Hinekora, Death's Fury now grants 100% chance to Cover Rare or Unique Enemies in Ash for 10 Seconds on Hit (from 20%).
3.7.0	Ramako, Sun's Light no longer has a prerequisite. Hinekora, Death's Fury now requires Ngamahu, Flame's Advance or Ramako, Sun's Light (previously required Ngamahu, Flame's Advance). Tukohama, War's Herald no longer requires Arohongui, Moon's Presence. Added new Chieftain notables - Valako, Storm's Embrace and Tasalio, Cleansing Water.
3.2.0	Ramako, Sun's Light is now located behind Tawhoa, Forest's Strength. Instances of minor node Life Regeneration, Strength replaced with Life Regeneration, Endurance Charge Duration