New chieftain ascendancy

Is it me or does this seem to need to go back to the drawing board?

It's really poor, the other 4 chieftains on poe, myself included will unlikely even use it now, it's got a tonne of rubbish no one will use and lost as much useful damage.

Is this in preparation for POE 2?, I've noticed the trend of less damage is more grind becoming the focus point, as is poe 2 lost my interest with all the "streamlining" that I saw.

The top two nodes are great defences against elemental damage and it's star reasons to just get forbidden jewels and use a jug and that's it, was that the intention?, to buff jug indirectly?.

You have a very low chance explosion that might help with maps on high density some of the time, if you want explosions you have items that do better.

A stand still aura with the dreaded "nearby" tag, only reason you stand still in poe is because you died, or have gear high enough that mechanics don't matter.

A flat fire damage converter, who's that for, if you are playing fire you need conversion percentage, that is already in a mastery to get 100% anyway, there is nearly nothing on the tree that makes this node have a point past the northern half, the part where you have no reason to go to.

Totem regen/recoup node, this could be something, but I feel it's going to be a whole lot of nothing.

Tahwoa needs to be changed drastically to make it useful with the other node, since the ancestor does not work with fist of war, if they work together as they always should have it might make chieftain the slam ascendancy, how it's going to work with strike skills is something I want to know.

I'd say its a flat nerf to the already never played ascendancy, and I would like to pick the brain of the people who put it up though they never seem to browse the forums, what was the thinking behind it and where do you see it going, I would like to know, because unless the last two work together, this doesn't have any use at all, if anything it lost all it's limited versatility.

It is not just you. The only good node is the no downside melding. Otherwise its a mishmash of mostly useless, non synergistic stuff.

chieftain and guardian rework look horribly weak. both got 1 super strong keystone while the rest are mediocre at best. guess they will be the poors man ascendancy for those who cant afford the forbiden flesh/flame jewel.

Guardian with a On kill effect as 2nd ascendency node :(
that's disappointing they still do this kind of node without an alternative for Bosses ...

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moumout wrote:

Guardian with a On kill effect as 2nd ascendency node :(
that's disappointing they still do this kind of node without an alternative for Bosses ...

more pissed with the link skill "allys within you and the linked target get a buff" what on earth is that...

they reworked those ascendencies while Gladiator is left alone lol

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moumout wrote:

they reworked those ascendencies while Gladiator is left alone lol

There are numerous ascendancies that need work. Guardian looks pretty weak for sure, the Chieftain on the other hand.... looks very good. Not sure what on earth you guys are talking about.

Assassin, Gladiator, Berserker, Sabo, and guardian all still need work in my opinion

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moumout wrote:

they reworked those ascendencies while Gladiator is left alone lol

Cause they've already crashed this Ascendancy against the wall long ago, hard to ruin it even further.

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Jradlot21 wrote:

There are numerous ascendancies that need work. Guardian looks pretty weak fro sure, the Chieftain on the other hand.... looks very good. Not sure what on earth you guys are talking about.

No the new chieftain is utter trash.A single good node but that's about it. Not even a great node as in best case you would go for the real melding in order to pick something better via forbidden jewels. Even melding+ a rare jewel got more value. There's not a single good build on chieftain anymore. Want to play a slam or strike build? Jug, berserker, slayer and champion got you well covered and all 4 perform way better than chieftain in both offensive and defensive ways.
Want to play a totem build? Hierophant is the only possible way to go.
You want a fire based spell caster? Inq or ele it is. You want str stack? Berserker got your back. You want to play a 100% taken as fire build? Guess what it's gone

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gladiatorpie wrote:

It is not just you. The only good node is the no downside melding. Otherwise its a mishmash of mostly useless, non synergistic stuff.

"enemies near you have no resistance against fire DoT"

That is a major buff to fire trap. Paired with the "no penalty melding" Chieftain is going to be a powerhouse boss killer.

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Jradlot21 wrote:

"enemies near you have no resistance against fire DoT"

That is a major buff to fire trap. Paired with the "no penalty melding" Chieftain is going to be a powerhouse boss killer.

It's not, it's pretty much the same as applying curses and exposure to an enemy so you are not going to win any damage out of it. Besides that there are better boss killer abilities thab fire trap if you want to have a powerhouse boss killer lol, or even better choices for more damage like ele or inq