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, Area of Effect	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 10% increased Area of Effect [1]
Life Regeneration, Endurance Charge on Kill	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 5% chance to gain an Endurance Charge on Kill [1]
Life Regeneration, Fire Damage	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 10% increased Fire Damage [1] [2] [3] [4]
Life Regeneration, Fire Resistance	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second +10% to Fire Resistance [1]
Life Regeneration, Totem Placement Speed	Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second 10% increased Totem Placement speed [1] [2]

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 Skill near an Enemy		Life Regeneration, Area of Effect
Valako, Storm's Embrace	+1 to Maximum Endurance Charges Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second per Endurance Charge 15% more Damage if you've lost an Endurance Charge in the past 8 seconds Gain 1 Endurance Charge every second if you've used a Warcry Recently		Life Regeneration, Endurance Charge on Kill
Arohongui, Moon's Presence	Enemies near your Totems deal 8% less Damage Enemies near your Totems take 16% increased Physical and Fire Damage Totems are Immune to Fire Damage 25% increased Area of Effect while you have a Totem		Life Regeneration, Totem Placement Speed
Tukohama, War's Herald	2% of Damage dealt by your Totems is Leeched to you as Life Ancestor Totems have 100% increased Activation range 100% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Active Ancestor Totems		Life Regeneration, Totem Placement Speed
Tasalio, Cleansing Water	15% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage Unaffected by Ignite +100% to Fire Resistance 50% increased Life Recovery Rate if you've taken Fire Damage from an Enemy Hit Recently		Life Regeneration, Fire Resistance
Ngamahu, Flame's Advance	50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage Every 10 seconds, gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage for 4 seconds		Life Regeneration, Fire Damage
Ramako, Sun's Light	Damage Penetrates 15% Fire Resistance 25% chance to Ignite +25% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier		Life Regeneration, Fire Damage
Hinekora, Death's Fury	1% of Fire Damage Leeched as Life 10% increased Strength Cover Rare or Unique Enemies in Ash for 10 Seconds on Hit	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