PoE Chieftain, Slam builds

Early Leveling for Totems: From Level 1: Start leveling from the start of Act 1 with Ground Slam + Chance to Bleed + Lifetap. Add Ancestral Protector Totem as soon as avaliable. From Level 8: Earthbreaker will become avaliable; switch out chance to bleed with Earthbreaker and run with Ground Slam and Lifetap until level 12. From Level 12: Switch Ground Slam with Volcanic Fissure for the rest of the game; from this point just following the gem setups as best as you can. Uniques to Prioritise in order 1. Brutus Lead Sprinkler 2. Crown of Eyes (With Ancestral Protector 18% speed uber lab en

Hey, wanted to give a detailed account of my first day with Exerted Volcanic fissure Chieftain, here my profile since I don't have access to pob right now. Leveling 1-12: Ground Slam - Chance to bleed - Ruthless / Intimidate - Blood and Sand - War banner: was fine a little bit on the slow side, nothing special. 12-38: Volcanic Fissure - Elemental damage with attacks - Added fire / Intimidate (for bosses) - Seismic Cry (for clear) / Herald of Purity - Herald of Ash - Blood Sand: I have seen that most people playing V

TLDR: Frozen Legion possibly (i.e. not confirmed or hinted at by anyone at GGG AFAIK) scales similarly to Shockwave, gaining CDR and EAD please please please remember to cross-check when gem information is dropped and do not take this as gospel - it is hypothetical although at least an educated guess It's a decent 6th link for average attack speed builds It might be mainable if your weapon is exceptionally slow, but Heatshiver is likely the most straightforward way to scale it for now. 4 sample builds to get your own theorycrafting started, although those

pob: AG Gear: Gruthkul's Pelt nearby enemies have -9 fire res helm Sap ground implicit boots with +35% fire and lightning res Southbound Gloves with ele weakness Kingmaker Specters: Xoph's Favoured x2 Kinda bad single target damage, but it's really fun for mapping. Has full ele avoid, 39k armour, and 77/76/76 max res - could probably get this close to 80 if you pick up the Prismatic Skin cluster (which i might do). Hits cannot be evaded + Second sight to get capped crit always without assmark or bottled faith,