New Chieftain Ascendancy small sadness

Having less damage doesn't mean it's worse, people just need to start looking past POB dps. The defensive options are huge and free up tons of space elsewhere that you can ditch into dps and for FOW slam builds defense is even more important than for many other builds. Conversion, dot multi and ash is stuff you have plenty available outside of your ascendancy if you need it. I'd honestly consider covered in ash a completely redundant mod on a fire based slam build, you will have infernal cry anyway.

Hey GGG,

Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU! I read the new league changes and saw the new totem based leech mastery for physical attack damage. More niche in some ways, but now useable by any ascendancy--even better than having it in chieftain tbh. I already have exactly the build idea this fits into. Don't know if you had already planned this or not, but it made me feel either heard or understood depending, and both are good. Very excited now for the new league.

MUCH APPRECIATION!

-Orion

What is particularly weird to me is how Chieftain has basically no damage nodes, but Ascendant chieftain node has 10% strength. I mean, why? For what reason? Ascendant is supposed to get watered-down versions of ascendancy notables, but in this case they get 10% strength and chief only gets this jewel transformation bullshit?

from the tests I did, 2 sec cd is way too big to help clear in any way. and you cant have it when you need it so you ll probably waste it on a white pack before a yellow mob. totally inconsitent damage. and if you want a big hit, intimidating cry gives double damage on 2 hits exactly when you need it. so once in a while you get a little boost on a rare monster. and if you go slower attack speed, it means you clear way slower. and very soon you re clearing a screen in .5 sec so I dont see how tahowa could help there.
on single target you can get the warcry helmet that gives you a huge boost of damage on all exerted attack but wont work on tahowa. so intimidating cry + 45% + fist of war = triple damage of tahowa on 2 hits when you need it on a rare.

imo, going this route is a real bet on if they changed tahowa cd and if tahowa can be exerted.

for bosses i have hard time seing how you d leverage tahowa.

only use i can think of so far for bosses is a "lucky hit" on a somewhat slow slam ignite build with stuff like rislathas and the new supp gem. in that case douoble damage doesnt work. but echoes of creation work and would be more consistent. so once in a while you get a higher ignite thx to tahowa