GhazzyTV's Animate Weapon Chieftain Ascendancy, Bandits & Pantheon Powers (PoE Settlers of Kalguur)
Ascendancy
The most optimal way to play this build leaves very little choices when it comes to the Ascendancy nodes, which I will cover in this section of the guide.
My Preferred Set-Up
The ascendancy nodes are listed in order of importance (and tied to the way you need to travel to access them).
- Sione, Sun’s Roar
- Tasalio, Cleansing Waters
- Valako, Storm’s Embrace
- Tukohama, War’s Herald
Sione
This node provides us with infinite warcry power. This is a bit obscure to most players, but what it means is that the “power counted by nearby enemies” etc no longer needs to be calculated. The warcry now simply gives us the maximum possible effect, always. This is incredibly powerful and is the builds bread and butter at all stages of progression.
Tasalio
This Ascendancy makes all fire resistance modifiers, also apply to cold and lightning resistance at 50% of their value. Effectively making fire resistance rolls, pseudo all resistance. It also happens to make us ignite immune, which is very nice.
Valako, Storm’s Embrace
This Ascendancy acts as a fire-specific Melding of the Flash, with no downside. Any increases to our maximum fire resistance also apply to our maximum values of cold and lightning resistance. As a result of this node, we can reach really good maximum values relatively easily.
Tukohama
This ascendancy isn’t very strong, to be quite frank with you. Our best option is this slot, for 10% more damage. We do not get the +2 strikes, as AW is not a strike. We have no other option though, so Tukohama it is.
Bandits
As with most summoner builds, you will kill all of the bandits, as they provide no significant gains worthy of losing the skill points for.
Pantheon
As with most builds these come down to a matter of personal taste.
For Major I’d recommend Lunaris to avoid chained projectiles and some free phys mit, or Brine King to mitigate Freeze.
For Minor my primary recommendation is Gruthkul for even more phys mitigations. Honorable mention goes to Abberath for burning ground.
