New Ngamahu node

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488% increased fire damage for 37 points, at ~13.2% inc fire dmg per point. Doesn't really matter which points you thake off first, in the end the average is still more or less 13%. This does not include the rare jewel. You also get some cast speed, resistances and life, plus there are a bunch of fairly good wheels neaby. Pob: https://pobb.in/7wejzV3WxgaH

Some thoughts on this: this is arguably two cluster jewel setups worth of % inc dmg, with a somewhat comparable dmg effectiveness, but without any of the cost (of currency) associated with double cluster setups. There are even more points nearby but pretty conditional and harder to reach. What also remains to be seen is if things like cold dot multi or spell dmg per power charge or per 100 mana also get converted. That could bring a lot more value to this area and some wonky, extremely cheap builds could come out of this.

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A big downside is the distance, you have to spent at least around 20 points in travel nodes. But there is a lot of nice stuff on the way, quite often it's not even that far from where you are pathing anyways, so it's often more like 10, maybe 5 and less points to travel. Some builds might even be compelled to now go more to the top of the tree instead of down, especially since all that dmg is (afaik) raw global % fire dmg, so will work with a lot of things. Unlike "% inc dmg with two handed", which doesn't apply to explody for example.

I think this just a great tool for league starting and SSF, it makes it extremely easy not having to rely on clusters, it's a very reliable, non-RNG way of easily an quickly getting dmg. And short of 500% is a lot of % inc dmg, which, like many other nodes of Chieftain, simply ease your gearing. Because if for example you're playing RF and get all that % inc fire, dot multi and such becomes so much more valuable. So any % dmg roll on gear loses value, therefore you won't have to focus on them as much, leaving more space for higher value mods and gear.

Which is why I believe Chieftain will produce some of the best price/performance ratio league starter builds available.

Just for fun I made these two pobs for RF:

First take: https://pobb.in/6I9vce-OJpv-

After thinking more about new Ngamahu node: https://pobb.in/t2ALPQscC3Z_

(Details in custom mods)

And that's arguably pretty basic gear, many mods can be interchanged or replaced. Stuff like ailment avoidance can be partially dealt with by pantheon or fully by boots, shield and maybe body armour. There are a lot of great uniques around, I just had this pob more in mind for SSF (remember you can swap resistances, makes crafting very easy).

Just wanted to put this out there, as I haven't seen anyone actually calculate it.