[3.7] Chunky Chargrill Chieftain - Incinerate CwC Volatile Dead - [2x Demigod winning build]

This build gets pretty much all of the damage from gem links, abyss jewels and the skill tree.
As a result your gear just needs to focus on life and resists.

The current gear for my SSF Incursion Flashback is found here:
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Cellstorm/characters
The character that won the Syntheses 3.6 demigod is Two_Shot_Explosive
The character that won the Incursion demigod is Cell_Immolation
Please follow the PoB and the most recent levelling tree, as there is some differences in tree and gear for these characters due to the nature of SSF providing different opportunities or problems to overcome with regards to gear. The build is very flexible, so any subtle changes are taken on easily.


A tabula rasa is highly recommended above any 5 link due to the gem links.

The very best in slot item for this build is a Loreweave chest armour with the 80 all res (altered down to 78 in patch 3.6), life, ele damange, crit chance (to help proc Elemental Overload) and base stats (dexterity can become a small issue). It's just hard to think of a better chest for the build.

The abyss jewels are very important for building flat damage for the skill tree to scale up. Look for Hypnotic Eye jewels and try to buy/craft/find ones with flat fire damage to spells and also flat life on these is very important. If you can also get fire damage while holding a shield then you have perfect jewels for this build.

A good unique main hand right now is the Cerberus Limb it seems to only be a couple of chaos in a trade league, this drops from the Vaal delve boss so can be very RNG gated in SSF. There are better options in terms of rare sceptres though, please remember in PoE that well rolled rares will often outperform uniques. Spell daggers and wands are also an option, another area where the build is very flexible.

The Flasks I prefer are:
Panicked Divine Life Flask of Staunching
Chemist's Basalt Flask of Grounding
Perpetual Stibnite Flask of Heat (this flask is OP for these type of agressive in the mobs face kind of builds)
Perpetual Sulphur Flask of Warding
The Wise Oak (this can be a mana flask if you don't have the leech boot enchant, and also a mana is needed for bosses with no adds).

Incinerate - Cast while Channelling - Volatile Dead - Combustion - CHOICE OF THREE - READ BELOW* - Fire Penetration (if you only have a 5 link drop fire pen until you get a 6 link)

*Controlled destruction - Still seems fine in the set up I've tested, but it's one of those things you should be mindful of, keep an eye on your buffs and if it isn't up most of the time then perhaps look at how to achieve that or switch to another gem.

Elemental focus - With this most mobs other than the first pack of a map should be ignited by Herald of Ash effects, again be mindful of this. There is a possibility of using another source of ignite to make use of this but without testing it myself I can't say if it's worth it or not, personally I wouldn't be looking at a secondary source of ignite for how I enjoy to play.

Concentrated Effect - This is the one that I will probably be using the next time I play this build. Incinerate got a radius buff to +19 from +15 so it won't hurt the overall range of that too too much and the damage boost from conc effect is great for the incinerate, the volatile dead corpse explosion and the volatile dead spell itself.

Flame Dash - Faster Casting - Arcane Surge

Shield Charge - Fortify - Faster Attacks - Blood Rage (Having two movement skills is very much a weird preference of mine and is by no means a requirement, so pick which one you prefer and go with that)

Desecrate - Spell Cascade - Faster Casting

Herald of Ash - Anger - Enduring Cry

Cast when Damage Taken - Immortal Call - Increased Duration - Vaal Grace

Bandits - kill all for the 2 points.

Levelling for this build can be a little tricky to begin with, mainly as you do not get the incinerate gem as a marauder until you complete A Fixture of Fate quest for Siosa in the Act 3 Library. Then you do not get the CwC gem until you complete act IV and cannot equip the gem until lvl38. Once you have these though you are good to switch over to the build!

If you are in a trade league, or have other characters you can get the incinerate before then and play the build from the get go. If you cannot get an incinerate gem you can level as Cleave then Sunder as you get a hold of these gems. Sunder requires very little gear and skill tree support early on so you can level into the build while still sundering happily!

This image below shows a finished skill tree for this build.

Fill out the skill tree in the following sections:

Green - Red - Yellow - Blue - Purple

Take the cheiftain ascendancy points in the following order:

1. Tawhoa, Forest's Strength
2. Ramako, Sun's Light
3. Hinekora, Death's Fury
4. Valako, Storm's Embrace

Major - Soul of Lunaris - Fully Upgraded
Minor - Soul of Shakari - Fully Upgraded

These are my preferred pantheons as they patch out a few of the counters that the current content is likely to throw at you fairly often.

Here is a post I made later on in this thread as a reply to someone who wanted some help with this build. I feel that a lot of the questions and queries I get about this build are touched on in this discussion so please take a moment to read through it.



Let me copy/paste something I posted earlier in this thread that should help:
" I took a look at your gear and your flask game is easily the weakest link of your builds. Flasks in PoE are crucial. Go to a youtube vid or a stream of a player you respect as a good player and take a look only at their flasks when they are mapping/bossing. You see them hitting those flask cooldowns all the time, and not life flasks either. There is so much power, like TONS OF POWER in flasks that if you don't use then end game PoE is pretty much impossible even with absolute best in slot gear, that's how important flasks are. But like I say, don't take my word for that or think i'm personally using flasks as a crutch. Go take a look at any player playing real high end game PoE and look at their flask choices and go and actually watch how they use them.

I have a suggested flask setup for this build on the front page, that would be a great place to start. "

Then also after you have done this have a read of this and see if you can spot anything you are missing in playstyle:

" Raw hp value only means so much if you have no other mitigation.

Do you keep fortify up all the time, fortify + shield charge + faster attacks.

Could you use different flasks? Flasks in PoE are more than just flasks, think of them as a skill rotation in an MMO, flask are integral parts of builds and if you let your flasks and use of them be a weak link then end game PoE becomes almost impossible for nearly all builds. Basalt and stibnite (stibnite blind cloud is striaght up OP OP) bases are hugely beneficial, with suffixes such as warding and heat. Don't underestimate flasks, just watch someone you consider a skilled PoE player for a few minutes, watch their flasks, they are always working them. Always.

Have you upgraded your pantheons? An upgraded lunaris pantheon helps so much I can't understate it.

Do you keep endurance charges up throughout the whole map, no only through the warlords curse and chieftain ascendancy, but also enduring cry to gain charges back during down time or to refresh them during boss fights.

If you are using immortal call I suggest trying without it. I've been killing shaper guardians last couple of play sessions and I don't use immortal call and never have for this build but a lot of people who's gear i've looked over suddenly put it in then don't have the same survivability as me and can't understand why.

Uber lab points are super nice too, the 10% of phys taken as fire is very nice as when we take fire damage our resists kick in, so with 75% fire res we mitigate 75% of this 10% of physical taken as fire, so we effectively reduce physical attacks severity by 7.5%. "

So again I helped another player who was struggling with mention of flasks, fortify and also don't overlook positioning, you could either drop by my stream when I am on or even go my stream and look at my PoE Videos for this week and watch me play for a bit, there could be something very different you are doing with the build that is causing you to have these problems.

Also don't forget pantheons, they make a massive difference to this build. It feels so much better to me once I unlock them, everything is so much smoother!