Upset with the New Chieftain

Couldn't you guys make Tawhoa work with exerted attacks and Fist of War?

I like slow mace with warcry builds, but I hate having to use totems. They feel like a must.

The change to Chieftain felt underwhelming, considering my favorite play style I would love to see Tawhoa being more powerful.

We have so much imba stuff in the other acendencies, come on, give us that!

While I also think that the Chieftain rework is a [big?] net negative I still have hope that the melee skills will mesh together reasonably well.

Things like doing away with cooldowns altogether and replacing that with a % chance to take effect [whether it's you OR your mirage warrior] sounds reasonable. Changing things so it triggers based on "hit count" or something like that would be fine -- also if it counts the mirage warrior in those hit counts.

There are plenty of ways to rework the melee nodes so that neither "fast strike" nor "slow slam" skills are shafted.

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However I'm worried that the ascendancy is still going to be a net nerf esp. when getting rid of the "damage shift" + "damage taken as" support that we used to have along with universal fire damage support.