PoE Builds 3.21: Oni-Goroshi Tectonic Slam Chieftain Build

Welcome, exiles! Today we’re diving deep into the powerful Oni-Goroshi Tectonic Slam Chieftain build that combines devastating area damage with impressive survivability. This guide will walk you through every aspect of optimizing this character.

Investment-wise, this build falls into the mid-range category, requiring approximately 500 chaos orbs to reach its full potential. The cost primarily comes from mandatory unique items that form the core of the build’s damage mechanics.

What makes this build exceptional is its ability to convert the significant self-damage from Oni-Goroshi into a manageable aspect through Chieftain’s defensive capabilities.

Mandatory Unique Items

Oni-Goroshi

● This legendary sword serves as the cornerstone of our build. When you successfully ignite an enemy, it activates Her Embrace – a powerful state granting 123% of physical damage as additional fire damage, 20% increased attack and movement speed, plus complete immunity to stun, freeze, chill, and ignite effects.

● Crucially, Oni-Goroshi also provides up to 90% increased critical strike chance, making it an exceptional weapon for critical-based builds.

● However, this immense power comes with a significant drawback. While under Her Embrace’s influence, you continuously take 0.5% of your maximum life as fire damage per second for each character level. At level 90, this translates to 45% of your maximum health as fire damage every second.

● Fortunately, this self-inflicted damage is substantially reduced by your fire resistance. Additionally, you’ll maintain 6 endurance charges and benefit from substantial life regeneration from both your passive tree and ascendancy choices.

Yoke of Suffering

This amulet is essential because it converts all your damage types to inflict shock on enemies. This mechanic enables us to maintain 50% shock effect on bosses (causing them to take 50% increased damage). Yoke of Suffering also makes enemies take 5% additional damage for every type of ailment you’ve applied to them.

Abyssus

Abyssus delivers substantial damage amplification for this setup. It adds 40-60 physical damage to your attacks and provides up to +125% critical strike multiplier.

The trade-off is that it increases all physical damage you take by up to 50%. However, this doesn’t make the build excessively fragile due to our substantial armor investment, permanent fortify uptime, and 6 endurance charges providing consistent damage reduction.

Rare Helmet Alternatives

Pandemonium Crest Royal Burgonet: prioritize maximum armor, substantial life rolls, and comprehensive elemental resistance coverage.

Armageddon Ward Eternal Burgonet: seek high armor values, significant life modifiers, and the crucial “nearby enemies have -9% to fire resistance” affix for additional damage penetration.

Rare Gloves Requirements

Doom Clutches Stealth Gloves: ensure at minimum 70 maximum life, complete elemental resistance coverage, and no less than 400 accuracy rating to ensure consistent hits against evasive enemies.

Rare Body Armour Specifications

Tempest Salvation Full Dragonscale: target armor and evasion hybrid bases, secure at least 20% chance to suppress spell damage, substantial life pool increases, and comprehensive elemental resistance stacking.

Recommended Unique Alternatives

Cherrubim’s Maleficence provides excellent life-based modifiers, while Atziri’s Step offers valuable spell suppression and movement benefits.

Main Skill Setup (6-Link)

Tectonic Slam – Elemental Damage with Attacks – Pulverise – Inspiration – Multistrike – Fire Penetration

This combination forms our primary damage-dealing setup. Tectonic Slam provides excellent area coverage, while the support gems multiply our damage output significantly. Elemental Damage with Attacks provides more consistent scaling than physical-only modifiers.

Armour Utility Skills

Enduring Cry – Molten Shell – Increased Duration – Berserk – Leap Slam – Summon Ice Golem

Enduring Cry generates our endurance charges while providing burst healing. Molten Shell with Increased Duration creates powerful defensive windows, while Berserk provides substantial damage and speed boosts when properly managed.

Helmet Totem Configuration

Vaal Ancestral Chief – Ancestral Protector – Multiple Totems – Blood Rage

Ancestral totems provide substantial damage amplification against single targets. Blood Rage grants valuable attack speed and frenzy charge generation for sustained damage output.

Gloves Aura Stacking

Anger – Herald of Ash – Grace – Enlighten

Anger provides substantial flat fire damage to attacks, while Herald of Ash adds valuable damage over time and area clear enhancement.

Boots Utility Setup

Arcanist Brand (Lvl 1) – Wave of Conviction (Lvl 1) – Assassin’s Mark – Combustion

This setup provides multiple layers of damage amplification. Wave of Conviction applies exposure to reduce enemy resistances, while Assassin’s Mark enhances our critical strike performance against marked targets.

Jewel Modifier Priorities

Physical Damage

Melee Damage

Area Damage

Fire Damage

Sword Damage

Attack Speed

Critical Multiplier

Maximum Life

Unique Jewel Integration

Thread of Hope

This jewel offers exceptional value for our build. It enables access to powerful passive nodes that would otherwise require significant pathing investment. While not absolutely mandatory, it dramatically improves build efficiency.

Watcher’s Eye

Watcher’s Eye Prismatic Jewel: target versions that provide X% of physical damage as extra fire damage while affected by Anger aura.

Ascendancy

Pantheon

Major God: Arakaali – Provides excellent damage over time mitigation and life recovery benefits that synergize perfectly with our sustain mechanics.

Minor God: Tukohama – Significantly reduces physical damage taken while stationary, which complements our playstyle during boss encounters.

Bandits

Deal With the Bandits Quest (Act 2)

Killing all bandits permanently grants:

2 passive skill points for additional customization on your passive tree.

If you accidentally helped any bandit during the quest:

Vendor recipe: Sell 20x Orbs of Regret + 1 Onyx Amulet to any NPC vendor to reset your bandit choice.

Leveling Guide

Progression Tips

From levels 1 to 28, utilize Frost Blades for efficient clearing and single-target damage.

At level 28, you can transition to Tectonic Slam, which will become your primary skill for the remainder of the game.

Main Skill Progression

1. Heavy Strike: When creating your Marauder character, use Heavy Strike until reaching the first town. There you can retrieve your sword with Frost Blades from your stash. Temporarily support it with Ruthless for additional damage.

2. Level 8: Transition to Frost Blades supported by Added Cold Damage for improved clear speed.

3. Level 16: Activate Herald of Purity and Summon Skitterbots for additional damage and utility.

4. Level 18: Replace Ruthless with Melee Physical Damage support. Additionally, incorporate Elemental Damage with Attacks for elemental scaling.

5. Level 28: Replace Frost Blades and Added Cold Damage with Tectonic Slam and Added Fire Damage. Also replace Skitterbots with Herald of Ash and Blood and Sand stances.

6. Level 31: Transition from Melee Physical Damage and Added Fire Damage to Pulverise and Inspiration supports for mana efficiency and area damage.

7. Level 38: Replace Elemental Damage with Attacks with Multistrike for improved attack speed and damage output.

8. Level 70: Replace Blood and Sand with Grace for additional evasion and survivability.

Leveling Equipment Recommendations

Tabula Rasa provides excellent six-link flexibility during leveling phases.

Lochtonial Caress offers valuable charge generation and cooldown reduction benefits.

Goldrim delivers exceptional elemental resistance coverage during early game progression.

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