Video link: https://youtu.be/iMANGsRB9X8

PoB if you're insane: https://pobb.in/l02IfZEDElGZ

Was obsessed with making a CoC chieftain work after looking at the warcry changes and Ravenous Passion, but decided to quit Settlers 1.0 due to burning out of the grind. Continued to PoB it nonetheless and thought it would work with enough of a budget. I went back to Settlers 2.0 with the idea of making the build work. I transitioned from RF into this build and found it bad at low budgets but interesting enough. I migrated the character to Settlers 1.0 because I had a gamba'd mageblood that I never bothered to use after I poofed 100 divines from my remaining gamba.

It.. works??? The concept of this build is to sustain warcries and Vengeful Cry using Eternal Apple and Forbidden Rite's self hit. Because we need low chaos res (55-62) in order to reliably trigger Vengeful Cry, we use the Soul Sacrifice transfigured gem to be able to have a low amount of self hit, at the expense of some extra damage. The ~2k life cost of FR of Soul Sacrifice (innate cost + self hit) is sustained easily thanks to instant leech and life gain on hit.

Capping crit is not a problem thanks to Battlemage's Cry and power charges. Mageblood isn't actually necessary to crit cap and honestly doesn't really do much for the build, it's just for QoL. We have an absurd amount of more damage thanks to Rite of Ruin + Rage, and RF, which is all sustained by Enduring Cry, making up for not having a lot of sources to add flat damage. We can reach 25-35M DPS with flasks and all buffs up.

The core problem of this build is that it is squishier than wet rice and will die to being looked at. It technically has the damage to do Ubers, but can only really survive in Uber Shaper/Cortex with perfect play and some luck. Eternal Apple's downside means not having access to block, which means we have 0 avoidance as Marauders don't usually have suppress or evasion unless they focus on it. It also doesn't really have a useful 4th ascendancy node at all, though the Hinekora explosions help sometimes.

Also, too many buttons to press. Manual cast FR + Vengeful Cry (manual cast is to sustain eternal apple while there are no mobs), and Despair + Temp Chains for Balance of Terror every 10 seconds :p (can ditch temp chains if you use a CDR belt instead of mageblood)

I don't see any way to actually make this build survive high end content without bricking the build, so while this build is surprisingly cheap (~20-60 divines?), scalable (offensively only) and extremely fun, I would not recommend it at all and is more of a thought experiment.

mentioning u/wangofjenus for his post on warcry scaling and Surgeon General's Vengeful Cry video for inspiration.