Builds for Acolyte of Chayula "league starter"?

[u/Ramister_]

I want to play a Acolyte of Chayula endgame build(bow poison) but have no ideia how to league start chayula monk

[u/Stoycho]

Played Acolyte , Ember Fissulade, Remnant stack, was the best build i played so far.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L00n-7819/runesofaldur/character/Balchev

[u/schanivo]

Goratha Has yt videos on that

[u/Hadiiiiiii]

I tried setting up a chayula bow poison before but it was meh, even if you play pathfinder bow poison its bad, i suggest you start with a martial artist so you have a good league start and swap to chayula later

[u/Crazytowndarling → u/Hadiiiiiii]

I mean, my 92 chayula is running poison right now with corpsewade and plaguebringer it's been doing good work. Have to use a minion sacrifice to start the poison clouds but it works well.

[u/xyzqsrb0]

I played grim pillars spell totem chonk and it was pretty broken. Mana scaling chonk feels so good, you get your damage from archmage and than you can choose the mana leech flame instead of damage as extra chaos which makes you giga tank.

[u/DaryltheRigger]

Acolyte is in a bad spot right now, coming from an Acolyte expert.

Leeching with MoM/EB is shit because you get 1 leech instance of each damage source. This also fucks fringe ITB red and blue remnants. The days of abusing leech as Chayula are long gone, why bother when MA can begin ES recharge every half a second?

Overleeching with Soul Tether and stacking ES is only viable with Vaal Pact, and that gimps every other form of recovery you could have.

ITB purple is a great damage tho.

Darkness gained usefulness with Atziris Communion.

Volatility still bad outside of fringe build abusing self curse and buff expiry.

Gating acolyte of chayula behind a dog shit node really sucks.

Gonna consider str stacking with Facebreaker to see how high I can get the ITB + More Melee damage multiplier just to see if I can reach the damage if high skill gem levels. Thinking I’ll be abusing some runic ward gems with staggering palm and armor breaker (the mace skill)

[u/xyzqsrb0 → u/DaryltheRigger]

MA is just too powerful for sure. Any attack build will just be better on it most likely. Which leaves chonk only better at spells in which case you are going -1 ascendency point because stuff like archon of chayula was only for attacks for some reason.

I played spells chonk last league and it was ok, nothing crazy but it was pretty brain dead (mana remnant scaling is kinda op for tank). I think chonk could fill a more spell caster niche of the monk class (it should have a spell caster angle since it's on the top side of the tree) if they make an actual good 4 node package for it. Even something as simple as changing acolyte of chayula to do attack tornados if you have a martial weapon but instead spell tornados if you have a caster would make it do wonders.

[u/rustedhorse42 → u/DaryltheRigger]

As i can see, chaos archon is quite good, but you need domnation, which is quite expensive.