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Thorns Poison Chayula - End Game Build - KallTorak

0.2 DotH

Monk

Acolyte of Chayula

Creator

By KallTorak

Updated on May 13, 2025

May 13, 2025

Build Overview

Thorns is a modifier you can find on your gear. When you take a melee strike you deal your thorns back to the enemy that hit you. If I have 50 thorns damage, and the enemy hits me for 1 or 5000 it doesn't matter, I will do 50 damage back to them. Get hit with a melee strike to deal thorns to the enemy. What's core to enabling thorns is Crown of the Pale King. This makes ALL hits not just melee do thorns damage. From here you just stack as much thorns damage as possible and you have the basic understanding of thorns. Take damage, proc Barbs / Quill Burst, use attack skill, things die.

Why should you play Chayula? There is no real reason to play chayula monk at the moment. The ascendancies position on the tree is not ideal for thorns. We are seriously lacking in damage but our survivability is very good. That being said Chayula thorns can clear waystone level 15s with ease. Your boss damage will struggle as you push higher end content.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Chalupas are good
Thorns is cool
Very very tanky vs chaos

Heavy investment into bleed, defenses, and crit leaves our overall damage lacking
Positioning on the skill tree not ideal for thorns
A lot of the core ascendancy passives do not work with thorns builds currently

Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

+10

Sacrosanctum Makes us recoup energy shield

Olrovasara High attack speed mace

Crown of the Pale King Required for every thorns build.

Briarpatch Playing crit thorns. 25% Flat Crit is nuts.

Prism of Belief +3 for scavenged plating. This is very important. Scavenged plating is a massive amount of our thorns damage especially once you get more % thorns damage increase. When you have max level scavenged plating it carries all your damage.

Rares - Get energy shield, thorns damage, maximum life, and res cap. Get a high block chance on your shield.

DPS Jewels - Bleed Hit Chance > Thorns Damage > Global Physical Damage > Block Chance

Tanky Jewels - Max Energy Shield > Recoup damage taken as life

Defiance of Destiny - Chase unique will make you extra extra tanky

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 40

Dex 35

Int 15

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Into the Breach

Armour Breaker

Scavenged Plating

Herald of Blood

Herald of Plague

Shield Charge

Leap Slam

Mace Strike

Gem Priority

+18

Armour Breaker main attack skill. Grants us stacks of scavenged plating easily.

Scavenged Plating Make sure you level this up always. Get a level 21 corrupted version when you can. With physical mastery and a +3 scavenged plating Prism of Belief your thorns damage is amazing at full stacks.

Into the Breach can slot spirit support gems with no spirit cost. Abuse this by putting thornskin into it to save yourself spirit.

Herald of Blood Where all our aoe comes from. Herald of blood explodes, poisons enemies, poison ramps, bursting plague explodes, that explosion then poisons AND bleeds, then everything dies.

Herald of Plague Spreads poison