GhazzyTV's Dominating Blow Champion Ascendancy, Bandits & Pantheon Powers (PoE Settlers of Kalguur)
Ascendancy
The most optimal way to play this build leaves very little choices when it comes to the Ascendancy nodes, which I will cover in this section of the guide.
The ascendancy nodes are listed in order of importance (and tied to the way you need to travel to access them).
- Inspirational
- Master of Metal
- Fortitude
- Unstoppable Hero
In higher budgets we will Respec Fortitude and Unstoppable Hero, in favor of letting Kingmaker solve that for us. But only do that once you reach high budget. Do not pull the trigger on this too early!
Inspirational
This is the builds bread and butter Ascendancy. It allows us to recoup a vast majority of the valor value of banners when we leave their area, allowing us a very consistent uptime.
Master of Metal
Minions scale well with flat damage, Impale scales well with extra Impales and this ascendancy is both. That’s all there is to it.
Fortidude
Permanent fortify charges are powerful. 15 fortify is 15% less damage taken.
Unstoppable hero
Now our minions also gets to take 15% less damage
Bandits
On leaguestart you will help Alira for the 15% all resistance. Once your gear covers that resistance without Alira’s bonus, you undo your bandit choice and swap to kill all for +1 passive point.
Pantheon
Just like any other build we’re looking to solve with Pantheons what we otherwise cannot. A lot of the traditional choices are less important for us, as we solve elemental ailments with 
Purity of Elements
Soul of Lunaris This provides us with 1% Physical Mitigations and 1% Movement Speed per nearby enemy. It also comes with a chance to avoid projectiles and prevents chained projectiles from hitting us.
As for minors, there’s a choice between Gruthkul and Abberath
Gruthkul would provide us with some physical damage mitigation, and Abberath would make us immune to burning ground. Which of these you prefer is up to you, but I feel the regen the build has makes burning ground less of a problem.
