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 Chieftain is focused around fire damage and totems. The class offers a wide variety of effects revolving around fire damage, with damage bonuses via damage conversion, penetration, and covering enemies with Ash. They can enhance their totems to weaken nearby enemies or leech life for them. The class also boasts a variety of sources of life regeneration and life leech, as well as endurance charge generation, making the Chieftain surprisingly tough to kill in the heat of combat.

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
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, Area of Effect
Valako, Storm's Embrace	Modifiers to Maximum Fire Resistance also apply to Maximum Cold and Lightning Resistances		Life Regeneration, Endurance Charge on Kill
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
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		Life Regeneration, Totem Placement Speed
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
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
Ramako, Sun's Light	Nearby Enemy Monsters' Fire Resistance against Damage over Time is -20% while you are Stationary		Life Regeneration, Fire Damage
Hinekora, Death's Fury	Enemies you or your Totems Kill have 5% chance to Explode, dealing 500% of their maximum Life as Fire Damage	Ngamahu, Flame's Advance Ramako, Sun's Light	Life Regeneration, Fire Damage

Version History

Version	Changes
3.13.0	Tasalio, Cleansing Water no longer causes you to Regenerate 2% of Life per second. Tasalio, Cleansing Water now causes you to take 15% of Physical Damage from Hits as Fire Damage (from 10%). Arohongui, Moon's Presence now grants 25% increased Area of Effect while you have a Totem. Tukohama, War's Herald no longer grants 25% increased Area of Effect while you have a Totem. Tukohama, War's Herald now causes 2% of Damage dealt by your Totems to be Leeched to you as Life (from 1%) and grants 100% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Active Ancestor Totems (from 50%).
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