Wave of Conviction Chieftain guide (2m+ dps)

Levelling Early Levels: Ground Slam + Ruthless + Chance to Bleed Anscestral Protector + Chance to Bleed Blood and Sand Molten Shell/Steelskin on left click Enduring Cry Dash/Frostblink for movement (whichever your stats can support) Add Added Fire Damage Warning: do not take Avatar of Fire too early; this will be a negative node until you have your first ascendency Act 2: Herald of Ash, Herald of Purity, Pick up RF Add Melee Physical Damage support to ground slam Act 3: Pick up Wave of Conviction and all available supports, switch to Flame Dash. Pick up Determination, Unbound Ailments, and Skitterbots. Drop the Herald of Purity Skitterbots+ Unbound as mana allows Pickup Infernal Cry for Boss DPS Once WoC has leveled once or twice, switch to it Act 6: Pick up Ignite Proliferation Unique properties of WoC 1. You can only have one active wave at a time; this means you are mildly disinsentivized to scale cast speed 2. Because WoC is normally a support, switching it to your main skill means your suppport/hextouch skill can be Flame Surge, which will add a healthy ignite 3. It has an absurd number of gem tags: Fire, Lightning, Physical, AoE, Duration. Which means it is very easy to improve damage by getting + to any of those gem levels. Fire is still the best, as it also improves RF, but don't pass up a good + staff to any of the others. Fun fact, if the + to gem levels mods were not mutually exclusive (which they used to not be), it would be possible to have an absolutely ludicrous +9 staff; since you could theoretically have +3 each to fire, lightning, and physical and still is (theoretically possible) with legacy gear.