[2.3] Ancestral Chieftain - Triple Ancestral Warchief Facebreaker 150K+DPS

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monkeyonyourtonsils wrote:

I think I want to do a totem build.. boring af but reflect safe.

speed and mobility are important tho, so I have to use whirling blades. maybe leap slam..... but leap slam is a bit slow, delayed, and annoying when used as a movement skill. the delay is especially a problem, I think whirl is the fastest and most responsive of all movement skills. or more like... the least unusable, in fact.

if I use a sword I presume I can't use facebreakers and the quiver, so I'd have 2 totems, each with less damage?.. : /

In case you use any weapon you will lose the facebreaker damage bonus.
However, without a weapon you can neither use leap slam nor whirling blades.
Yet, this is not a problem in my opinion. I followed the rough outlines of this build with my char which started in HC Essenece (hence the many lifenodes). But instead of skirmish I am using a shield. this way I have more gem slots than necessary and can use two movement spells: Lightning warp and shield charge.
Lightning warp is similar to leap jump and I make great use of it in labyrinth and other places with cliffs, broken bridges, etc. My gem setup is: Lightning warp - less duration - faster casting - blood magic.

Shield charge is a great ability imo. It works exactly like whirling blades, meaning you can move through enemies at a great speed. My gem setup is: Shield charge - fortify - blood magic - faster attacks.


Since we are using ancestral bond shield charge does not do any damage (which is a bit sad because our equip would be great for doing so) but it is nevertheless a great way to move and to generate the fortify buff.

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kebiya93 wrote:

Can you update you skill gem setup? or your gear??
What do you use for defensive skills or survival?

I can only speak for myself but I think that you don't need much aside from your totems.
I run, as stated above, two movement gem setups, a CWDT setup which includes CWDT - Immortal Call - Molten Shell - Increased Duration, and have my "buff gem setup" in my shield: Hatred - Herald of Ash - Flame golem.

Thank for reply.
now I have almost 30k with Abyssus.
How can I maximize physical damage?
Still playing warchief?? Can you update gears, skill gem build and passive skills?

I use lightning coil aswell cause it works really good together with abyssus and makes u more sustain aswell.

Very fun build! Level 39 with core items ive been just wrecking my way through since level 20ish

With these items and vaal haste, my two totems hit 324k dps. When I swap out shield for quiver, I loose like 60k dps. At least that is what tool tip says. Does anyone know why?

Edit: Duhhh no shield lmao sorry my bad.

Very nice build one of my personal favorites i only hit lvl 64 today and i'm playing tier 10 maps relatively easy with a tabula so no defensive chest yet. i will keep tryin out new thing as i lvl to see if i can make it stronger!

thx a lot Darkblitz9

Your build helped to reach 37 challenges in essence, lv 94 and the first time all maps tiers and tard mods.
Finishing with a body armor worth 15ex and 7ex in cash and some other valuable stuff :D

Even the most cancer maps i ever saw : corrupted vault with dual curse (TC ofc^^), no regen and dual reflect and 15 mods total....
Reckt 4x but FINISHED IT and got the exploring point, thanks, no other build i know had made that !!

That's the final setup reached









The aoe covered by the 3 dispatched totems is awesome. This stuff reach 117k tooltip DPS for each totem, 6407 hp and i still don't know how to estimate the poison effect^^

Now in standart it will switch to

and added fire instead poison. Until lv 70 witchfire brew was good but not for hl mapping.

the martial artistry (3d corrupt) with 2 corrupted item improve well the viability of totem in reflect maps
A switch to
wasn't necessery anymore

Is it still viable in 2.4?

think so
with the unchanged crash, bug and server lags probs, i still can't play HC even with such a build, isn't tanky/burst viable enough
so it shouldn't be nerved

Can we get 4 totems if we use Tukohama fortress??