[POE 3.9] Featured Build Discussion Episode 9: FineWorkWithHillock's Cremation Chieftain

https://poe.ninja/challengehcssf/builds/char/dabouh/DaBeeef?i=0&search=class%3DChieftain%26sort%3Ddepth-solo === IF YOU ARE PLAYING SSF === If you have no gems, run a new throw-away TEMPLAR to town to get arcane surge and elemental prolif! This build is VERY painful to level because we don't get Cremation until we get to the Library; prior to that you have to use FIreball and Firestorm, and the damage is not good because we don't get damage nodes until later (bosses are very tough). Once you get cremation the build comes to life, and by the time you're in the 50's you'll be facerolling everything. BUY GEMS with another character if you can; that way you can start using Cremation right at 24 and don't have to get them at the Library. This build has amazing resists, health and regen. IT IS TEDIOUS TO LEVEL (until cremation) BUT DO NOT GIVE UP. It's worth it! TO FARM SIRE OF SHARSD - RUN ACT 8 LUNARIS TEMPLE LEVEL 1 for the card "The Lunaris Priestess". You need 5 of these cards. Just run back and forth between the entrance and exit of Temple level 1. You SHOULD get all 5 cards in roughly an hour. === Bandit: Kill All Pantheon: Brint+Gruth | Endgame>Solaris+Shakari Ascendancy: Tasalio (Resist)>Ramako>Hinekora>Tawhoa(End) Int is an issue at start; get int rings/amulets. Weapon: Cremation+CD+Immolate+Inspir+FirePen+Combust Helm: WoC+CoH+Flamm+Cull Boots: FD+FC+Surge(7)+Desecrate Gloves: VaalMS+DecoyT+FaS+HoA Ring: Spider (49) Weapon: Sire of Shards (68) Chest: Kaom's Heart === Act I >>Fireball+EleProlif (1) Fireball+Surge (Medicine) Volley >>Fireball+EleProlif+Volley (Cave) DecoyT+Dash (Prison) Combust (Mervail) Firestorm >>Firestorm+Comb+EleProlif Act II (Sins) HoA+FaS >>VD+EleProlif+Comb+Surge (Spike) CullStrike Act III (Tolaman) Flamm >>Replace VD with Cremation (keep same links) (Library) Cremation+Desecrate+FirePen+FD+FC+Surge+LMP+CD+WoC >>Cremation+Combust+CD+FirePen (If Tabula then +LMP+CullStrike) Act IV (Malachai) GMP+CoH+Immo >>Crem+GMP+Immo+Comb||+CD+FirePen >>WoC+CoH+Flam+Cull Act VI (Lily) Inspiration === SKILL PROGRESSION Light of Divinity Holy Dominion Amplify Quick Recovery Elemental Overload Explosive Impact Blast Radius (Dex Node) Heart of Flame Mental Rapidity Constitution Purity of Flesh Soul of Steel Bloodless Juggernaut Barbarism Combat Stamina