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15D EXPLODEY BV Chieftan (Scales Insanely With Currency)

End Game
3.28 Mirage
presentationMarauder
presentationChieftain
Updated on Mar 30, 2026
Mar 30, 2026

Path of Building Code

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Super Cheap (less than 15D clears all content easily and efficiently)
  • Super Tanky (500k EHP)
  • High Single Target (7.5MM DPS)
  • Insane Clear (Hinekora Explosions)
  • Insane scaling With Investment (200MM+ DPS)
  • Weakness To DoTs
  • 3 map mods brick (No Regen, No Recovery, Less Max Resistance)
  • Snapshotting BV can be annoying sometimes (Minus 5 Seconds but still)

Build Variants

Super Cheap Version - I got this all up and running for less than 15D however you could probably do it for closer to 8-10 if you opt out of death's defiance (5-7D). You lose being virtually immortal to just being insanely tanky - Going from 522k EHP to 130kEHP. Either way you're still Giga tanky with 7.5MM DPS and Scaled Hinekora explosions

Essentially we scale spectre life to gain absurd levels of flat phys through minion pact which snapshots onto Blade vortexes first cast meaning we only need to sacrifice 1 minion the whole map. We then convert all this phys to fire and Scale our fire damage and AoE so that our BV is huge and does a ton of damage and on top of that all these scalings to BV also apply to Hinekora explosions which can chain and ignite prolif giving us the broken Single target and Clear Speed.

Equipment

Nebulis
Amethyst Ring
Vaal Gauntlets
Viridi's Veil
Cloak of Flame
Screams of the Desiccated
Defiance of Destiny
Amethyst Ring
Spiny Round Shield
Leviathan Greaves
Divine Life Flask
Doedre's Elixir
Fulgent Wound
Fulgent Wound
Honour Ruin
Honour Ruin
Elegant Hubris
The Light of Meaning
Unnatural Instinct
Carrion Breath
Carrion Breath
Carrion Breath
Carrion Breath
Carrion Breath
Carrion Lens
Carrion Lens

Super Cheap Version -

Only expensive part of Death's defiance, which is completely optional. If it's too out of budget feel free to just get a good rare amulet with life and fire + Chaos res, Xoph's blood is also good for like 1C.

Weapon 10% ele damage nebulis or 9% if you're turbo broke

Helmet Viridi's Veil with high res (socket spectres in here) Can also buy Corrupted +2 honourbound in mid budget for 2D (at time of posting) if you can afford - will be like 20% MORE Damage.

Body: Cloak of flames is super cheap - you can buy with + 1 res corruption for 30C then 4 Socket with bench craft then Tainted jeweller for 6 Socket. Bench craft 4 Link then tainted fusing for 6 Link then tainted chrome for colours. Cost less than half a Div on average to fix everything up. This body Essentially gives us 40 * .9 = 36% PDR which is insane for how cheap it is. Also gives us up to 75% Fire Res.

Shield You want change to block with block spell damage on prefix. Suffixes you just want fire Res and PDR, max res if you can get it, will save you a jewel, but not important if it's expensive. The shield cost me like 40C. Base type doesn't matter too much but getting armour ofc is nice

Boots I just harvest reforged minion until I got decent life and fire res. Craft on MS with onslaught. If you can afford to do this same thing on a fractured base then even better.

Gloves super easy and cheap you just want Fire res and potentially chaos if it's cheap and life. These gloves cost me like 15C - If the resistance isn't fire res you can always harvest bench reforge cold/light to fire for like 10C

Rings - we Just want life and Fire res here on amethyst rings, they want to be magic bc of the helmet - right ring is hexproof and left ring is crit immunity. You don't need hex proof but you definitely want crit immunity - 30C on trade at time of posting

3rd Ring - Bugged on moba, but we wear a 3rd ring through our ascendancy - we give up flasks, but bc of our belt this is no downside. Here we can go a rare ametheyst ring with just as much life -> Fire/Chaos -> other res (this doesn't matter since our ascendancy turns all fire res into light and cold at 1/2 value) as possible

Belt: We go greater freezing and massive for like 80C. Massive gives us aoe and life which are two most important stats for us and greater freezing gives us more shrine effect for like an extra 70C

Flasks: we just go 1 life flask with instant use and CB + Bleed immunity. Since it's instant it doesn't count negatively towards our belt and doedre's gives us endurance and frenzy charges and since it's also instant use it doesn't mess with our belt/ascendancy either

***JEWELS IMPORTANT***

Our Elegant hubris is super important. It has to be in the spot on the tree and it Needs 2 things and wants a few others.

#1 Need To convert eternal youth keystone into "Supreme Ostentation" - this node allows us to ignore attribute reqs (this is currently bugged on moba)
#2 convert 1 node into "minions have 80% increased life"
Tertiary rolls - Inc max life, Fire res (50%), Frenzy charge on kill, Chaos res

You can use this calculator to find the correct hubris: https://vilsol.github.io/timeless-jewels/tree

Light of meaning and Unnatural instinct - these have insane synergy together giving us a bunch of stats and like hundreds of % of increased fire damage - these have to go in those spots

Other Rare jewels - Use these to cap out our max Fire res to 90% which due to our ascendancy applies to light and cold as well

Passive Tree

main:
123
123
ascendancy:
8
8
Keystones
Avatar of Fire
50% of Physical, Cold and Lightning Damage Converted to Fire Damage Deal no Non-Fire Damage
Eternal Youth
50% less Life Regeneration Rate 50% less maximum Total Life Recovery per Second from Leech Energy Shield Recharge instead applies to Life
Unwavering Stance
Cannot Evade enemy Attacks Cannot be Stunned
Elemental Overload
Skills that have dealt a Critical Strike in the past 8 seconds deal 40% more Elemental Damage with Hits and Ailments Your Critical Strikes do not deal extra Damage Ailments never count as being from Critical Strikes
Masteries
Mana Mastery (1)
12% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills
Fire Mastery (1)
40% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage
Life Mastery (1)
15% increased maximum Life if there are no Life Modifiers on Equipped Body Armour
Duration Mastery (1)
10% more Skill Effect Duration

Our ascendancy is stupidly broken

Hinekora gives us insane clear in breach, we're talking multi screen chain explosions that ignite and proliferate.

Valako and tasalio essentially give us free 90% res cap with like 200% res overcap which is stupidly strong for how little investment we put into res.

Toad's price/Unseen Hand from bloodline ascendancy for poison immunity and an extra ring. There is virtually no cost to this since we are running a shrine belt anyways. Overall just great synergy

Skills

Cloak of Flame
Scholar's Robe
Blade Vortex
Added Fire Damage
Elemental Focus
Minion Pact
Greater Unleash
Lifetap
Corpse Talons
Vaal Gauntlets
Herald of Ash
Purity of Fire
Enlighten
Petrified Blood
Hypnotic Aegis
Spiny Round Shield
Shield Charge
Momentum
Faster Attacks
Brood Span
Leviathan Greaves
Automation
Righteous Fire
Immortal Call
Viridi's Veil
Praetor Crown
Raise Spectre
Minion Life
Empower
Nebulis
Void Sceptre
Vitality
Arrogance
Shield Charge
Nebulis
Void Sceptre
Frostblink
Brood Span
Leviathan Greaves
Flesh and Stone

Why petrified Blood?

Death's defiance gives us recovery on missing unserved life and petrified blood puts us at ~50% hp permanently so every time we take hit damage we are essentially recovering at minimum 10% of our total HP pool per hit. This makes it so if we don't get 1 shot we are always 50% HP. On top of that Petrified blood makes it so we have 40% DR From hits with a downside that we completely negate with Death's Defiance. As a result we DON'T Want to reserve too much life to get max value out of DD

Raise Spectre

This is our main source of DPS because of minion pact - We convert a % of our minion life to flat physical damage which we scale insanely. We get thousands of extra flat phys on our BV from this ONE skill gem. As a result we want to scale our spectre life as high as possible through gems and + levels. Companionship is really expensive so we generally just run it as a 3 link until we can afford it.

***IMPORTANT*** The type of spectre you summon matters a lot since they all have different base HPs. I use the carcass map boss Ads (the scorpions that he summons during his phase) as these have the highest HP. The way BV works with Minion pact is that it sacrifices a minion and snapshots the minion HP to BV, so that subsequent casts of BV don't require minions to sacrifice to gain the buff. HOWEVER, this minion doesn't respawn during the map, so if you ever drop stacks of BV, then you need to exit the map, either through portal to Hideout or mirage portal. This revives your minion and allows you to snapshot sacrifice your minion through minion pact again and continue mapping. This isn't generally an issue since you just press BV once every few seconds but It's important to understand since without this snap shot you will legit do 1/30th of your damage.

I also use a goblin MTX while I'm in hideout so that I can't cast bv in HO because if you do it in hideout it perma kills ur spectre so you have to go back to the map and get a new one. If you're not an idiot this isn't necessary but it helps me keep the spectre alive and I'm dumb as brick so I Pay to win here.

Righteous Fire is here SOLELY for the More Spell Damage to buff BV and we out regen the % damage anyways since we're 90% fire res even clicking altar mods

Everything else is really straight forwards defensive setups

How it Plays

Start Map
Press BV once
Dash around map (one shot everything)
Recast BV every 5-10 seconds
Explode everything
Unkillable
Go in and out of mirage/Hideout if BV Snapshot gets messed up

How it Works

Raise Spectre is our main source of DPS because of minion pact - We convert a % of our minion life to flat physical damage which we scale insanely. We get thousands of extra flat phys on our BV from this ONE skill gem. As a result we want to scale our spectre life as high as possible through gems and + levels. Companionship is really expensive so we generally just run it as a 3 link until we can afford it.

***IMPORTANT*** The type of spectre you summon matters a lot since they all have different base HPs. I use the carcass map boss Ads (the scorpions that he summons during his phase) as these have the highest HP. The way BV works with Minion pact is that it sacrifices a minion and snapshots the minion HP to BV, so that subsequent casts of BV don't require minions to sacrifice to gain the buff. HOWEVER, this minion doesn't respawn during the map, so if you ever drop stacks of BV, then you need to exit the map, either through portal to Hideout or mirage portal. This revives your minion and allows you to snapshot sacrifice your minion through minion pact again and continue mapping. This isn't generally an issue since you just press BV once every few seconds but It's important to understand since without this snap shot you will legit do 1/30th of your damage.

Stats

Stats are displayed for the "Budget" Variant only
Character
Attributes
353 / 
69 / 
123
Movement Speed
112%
Pantheon Major
Lunaris
Pantheon Minor
Gruthkul
Charges
Endurance Charges
5
Frenzy Charges
3
Power Charges
3
Defensive
Life
5,507
Energy Shield
207
Mana
672
Armour
3,949
Evasion Rating
485
Block
43%
Resistances
90% / 
90% / 
90% / 
75%
Simulated
Effective Health Pool
550K
Max Hit
94K / 
127K / 
127K / 
127K / 
34K
Skill DPS Estimation
Blade Vortex
11M

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