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).

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

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, Endurance Charge Duration
Tasalio, Cleansing Water	Modifiers to Fire Resistance also apply to Cold and Lightning Resistances at 50% of their Value Unaffected by Ignite	Tawhoa, Forest's Strength	Life Regeneration, Endurance Charge Duration
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
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	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
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	Arohongui, Moon's Presence	Life Regeneration, Totem Placement Speed

Version History

Version	Changes
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