Chieftain

	The Ancestors speak through your clenched fists.

The Chieftain is an Ascendancy class for Marauders.

Overview

The Chieftain 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 and slam skills, strength stacking, warcry skills, 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. Ramako, Sun's Light allows the Chieftain to completely strip fire resistant enemies of their resistances against fire damage over time and works to lethal effect in conjunction with Hinekora, Death's Fury against high density, high durability encounters when utilising ignite proliferation. Sione, Sun's Roar grants the Chieftain increased warcry buff effect and ensures maximum warcry buff effect, and Tukohama, War's Herald allows the Chieftain to augment strike or slam skills in your equipped body armour with 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. or 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 and 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. respectively. 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.

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, Warcry Duration	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 15% increased Warcry Duration [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
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		Life Regeneration, Fire Damage
Sione, Sun's Roar	Warcries have infinite Power 30% increased Warcry Buff Effect		Life Regeneration, Warcry Duration
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	Hinekora, Death's Fury Sione, Sun's Roar	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
3.25.0	The Tawhoa, Forest's Strength Ascendancy Passive Skill has been removed. This can no longer roll on Forbidden Jewels, though existing versions will still function. The Arohongui, Moon's Presence Ascendancy Passive Skill has been replaced with Sione, Sun's Roar. The small node prior now provides 15% increased Warcry Duration, instead of 10% increased Totem Placement Speed. Tukohama, War's Herald now requires Sione, Sun's Roar, or Hinekora, Death's Fury.
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