Chieftain

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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 per 1% Quality:
Supported Skills have 0.5% 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 per 1% Quality:
Supported Skills deal 0.5% increased Melee DamageThis 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

Minor skills
This class has the following minor passive skills:
Name | Stats |
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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 +10% to Fire Resistance [1] [2] Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second +15% to Fire Resistance [3] [4] |
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 |
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Modifiers to Fire Resistance also apply to Cold and Lightning Resistances at 50% of their Value Unaffected by Ignite |
Life Regeneration, Fire Resistance | |
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Modifiers to Maximum Fire Resistance also apply to Maximum Cold and Lightning Resistances | Tasalio, Cleansing Water | Life Regeneration, Fire Resistance |
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Enemies you Kill have 5% chance to Explode, dealing 500% of their maximum Life as Fire Damage | Life Regeneration, Fire Damage | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Trigger Level 20 Tawhoa's Chosen when you Attack with a Non-Vaal Slam or Strike Skill near an Enemy |
Life Regeneration, Melee Damage | |
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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 |
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Nearby Enemy Monsters' Fire Resistance against Damage over Time is -20% while you are Stationary |
Life Regeneration, Fire Damage |
Version History
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3.22.0 |
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3.11.0 |
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3.7.0 |
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3.2.0 |
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