PoE Valako, Storm's Embrace, Spell builds

Hi everybody! So, I have been trying to figure out how to make the Chieftain good. And most of the power of the Chieftain is in how easy it is for him to get defenses. I wanted to see how tanky you could get with a Chieftain, and it turns out that the answer is "absurdly". Here's a pob: I based this build on an existing DD CI Elementalist. But I realized that if you combine Valako, Storm's Embrace and Melding of the Flesh, you can get above +30% max ele resistance. Basically - Valako doesn't stop you from getting non-fire max resists. And they add together. 15%

I've been slowly building my version of Chieftain RF with SB this league and I got to a point where I can't find any cheap/easy ways to add damage. Does anyone have any other ideas other than going with dual Sceptres or Aspect of Carnage? Current dmg is around 8.5 Mps (with Punishment and culling strike), defenses are acceptable. PoB:

Hello guys, i am playing an RF-Chieftain since leaguestart and i have investet everything into it because its soooo much fun. Now i have come to a point where i dont know what to upgrade anymore. I wont start a new char this league and will spend everything i get into this one but i wont have the currency for mirror tier items. So i thought lets ask the community what i could upgrade to be more tanky and do more damage. Dont get me wrong, i am tanky as hell and i have about 10 mil single target DPS, clear speed is also amazing thaks to hinekora and bereks respite but there i

If anyone is interested in a cheap build that can run 8 mod corrupted maps with big juice on a sub 10d budget (I'm guessing don't subtractum me bro), here you go. This is by no means a full guide, but a map showcase and a quick overview of key points of the build if you want to give it a try. There is quite a lot of basic stuff I left out, but what I left out should be fairly self explanatory by looking at The PoB. It's pretty fast, it's pretty tanky (for a MF gimp), it's cheap, and it's pretty damn fun. enjoy.

Note: This is NOT really a RF build! Hi, I'm a really casual Path of Exile player who doesn't usually go hard into leagues anymore and therefore has a lot of outdated knowledge. I decided to make my own build this league - I've reached the point where I'm running Red T16 maps, but due to the build being overly complicated, most people get a headache when I ask them for gearing tips, although I've gotten some really good advice, such as someone telling me how good Formless Flame was. Here is my build, although some skills don't work due to them not being integrated into Path of Building yet

Is there a way to make this build possible without feeling bad? I copied the character of a random Korean and set up the damage and resistances to see the maximum damage (I don't think I can get there by changing any item because resistances are lower than pob) and I think the damage doesn't look bad and the defenses, well it would be better to have more than 1500 of life but without the petrified blood you can not use pain attunement Right now I'm playing a worse version of the pob that I built, just to see if the build can feel good, on yellow maps for the moment good, the only problem wou

Not tested and can't guarantee a good leaguestart experience with this, but it looks good enough on paper to share: 50k Armour 87% max res with no guard skill or flasks up DPS hard to estimate because it's spark, but should be around 1mil consistently enough to clear red maps, gonna have to tank some stuff on bosses though but it's thick enough to do that. Biggest problem will be movespeed, will likely end up needing elevated tailwind onslaught boots to feel ok. Coloring the chest will also be a pain so go for corrupted chests instead early on, it's one less ma

tl;dr it seems bad but I'm not that experienced with scaling fire DoT. Damage is simulated using DD corpse life that will provide same exact damage that the totem will. The idea is to use Searing Bond totems which can be scaled through +1 fire gems to increase totem life while also doing fire DoT. Since we're chieftain with 90% res, we use RF for more fire DoT and more spell damage for searing bond. And then we use arcanist brand for flame surge/curse while using scorching ray for infusion/stronger exposure since there's nothing else to do while your totem ign

My searing bond/ righteous fire chieftain, ascendancy needs work, and ill swap around some stuff if i get some good clusters, but here's my first planned route for the next patch