Chieftain Rework

Look what they did to my boy..
Realized I didn't mention what I thought the changes ought to have been; honestly I think the old was fine except for Tawho, but here is what I would have done:
Valako, Ngamahu, Arohongui: Unchanged
Tasalio
Gains unaffected by burning
Tukohama
Gains +1 to maximum number of Ancestor Totems
Ramako
Gains another 25% chance to ignite (up to 50%)
Hinekora
Gains another 5% increased strength (up to 15%)
Tawhoa
Cooldown reduced to 1 second; can now be affected by buffs (and actually tells you what it does when you hold alt)

[@ekoene6162]

Schoring ray + rf id say is a good combo for that node 9:38

[@DrDanQ92]

I believe that it is even worse than you depicted.. The wording of "Ramako, Sun's Light" means that enemies stay at a consistent 0 res (only when stationary XD) but all decent Dot builds curse and expose way into the negatives. So essentially they destroyed what few niche builds were viable as a chieftain: Phys convert to fire Dot builds (mainly RF+Fire Trap although other ascendancies were already more damage and more defense) Strength Stack Totems And above all destroyed the 100% of taken as fire defense. So now we have what new builds exactly? Slams or strikes that are already in a rough state and has much better synergies with other ascendancies? The best part is that guardian rework is also similarly bad. The "what is my purpose, you are a FF/FF jewel" meme is on point.

[@aequus2553]

One potential positive to Ramako RF is it does mean you can do the curse on hit + Replica Doedre's + curse mastery for insane passive defense without losing so much since res is only going to be 0 anyway, but yeah. Elementalist will be better with any reasonable investment; in fact I can't think of any build that would choose Chieftain at an even kindof high investment level 😬

[@Patraquashe]

Tawhoa does have the added bonus of benefitting Strike skills now, but like you, I am very skeptical of this rework, especially as Chieftain was my go-to starter Ascendancy for the past 8 leagues or so. Unless the patch notes contain some big juice for slam skills in general and how they interact with Tawhoa and Fist of War, it feels like quite a "meh" rework. If the Tawhoa slam gets the Fist of War bonus from the following node, it might be worth playing. If not...

[@aequus2553]

I think no matter what you'll find the 3 second cooldown + no warcry bonus is going to continue to make to a poor node unless it gets a substantial buff in the notes tbh but I hope we're both wrong

[@Patraquashe]

@@aequus2553 Yeah same here.

[@BalbazaktheGreat]

My Tectonic Slam chieftain is totally gutted, and I'm quite upset about it. (The loss of Valako's node is really, really tragic IMHO.) In addition, I feel like subclass has lost all sense of thematic cohesion. What I would like this class to be about is Warcries, Totems and Elemental Damage... what it seems to be about now is Elemental Resistance and... I don't really know.

[@aequus2553]

Yup, yup, yup. It's hard to name a Chieftain build other than RF that didn't just get annihilated