Acolyte of Chayula Raging Reavers Endgame Build

Follow your swarm of gigantic Skeletal Reaver Minions into battle and watch as they hack and slash their way through your foes! This build for the Acolyte of Chayula will see you walking through maps, using new tools such as Minion Splash II and Rage III to let your melee minions destroy packs of enemies in a completely new way!

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If you are looking for a guide to play through the campaign with, check out our Acolyte of Chayula Minion Leveling build, linked below!

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Strengths and Weaknesses

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Build Mechanics

You will be focusing on Skeletal Reaver Minions as your primary damage tool, leveraging their bonus scaling effect from Rage to reach insane levels of Attack Speed and Damage, and the newly introduced Minion Splash II to improve their ability to clear packs of enemies. Into the Breach, from the Acolyte of Chayula Ascendancy will grant them a HUGE amount of extra damage as Chaos Damage, while supportive skills like Despair and Pain Offering will further amplify your damage output against tanky Rare and Boss monsters.

Hollow Shell should be used frequently, keeping you on Low Ward to enable the Warding Rune of Bodyguards socketed in your Sceptre to grant all Minions in your Presence Onslaught. A combination of Life, Energy Shield, Evasion and Deflection along with your screen of Minions will work together to keep you safe.

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Ascendancy

1. Into the Breach: Will periodically spawn Flames of Chayula, which will automatically be collected to provide powerful damage scaling with Choice of Power.
2. Lucid Dreaming – Choice of Power: Makes all Flames of Chayula spawn as purple, and increases the effect they grant you. You then grant these Remnant effects to your Minions through Selfless Remnants.
3. Chayula’s Gift: Doubles the effect of any Chaos Resistance.
4. This build does not benefit from any 4th Ascension, so you will not need to acquire it.

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Skill Tree

This interactive skill tree will provide you with an overview of the final state of the build. When assigning travel Attribute Nodes, you will want to account for the requirements of your Skill Gems and Gear, and may have to respec some nodes as you find upgrades and progress.

The currently shown Skill Tree assumes you don’t have access to any specifically powerful Lineage Support Gems, and mostly covers Attribute Requirements. With further testing we may add a variant Skill Tree for players who want to push the build to its limits!

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Gem Info

In the Planner below, you will find a full list of Skill Gems and their Support Gems listed in order from highest to lowest priority, top to bottom, left to right. When choosing where you should use currency such as Perfect Jeweller’s Orbs, you can use this table as a guide. Make sure you remember to Quality your Skill Gems as well, as many of the Skills in this build benefit significantly from Quality.

Minion Splash II helps improve your clear significantly, but can be replaced if you acquire a Breach Crafted Belt with the Minion Splash affix. If you get one of these, swap Minion Splash Support for Minion Mastery.

Brutus’ Brain Support is a very large quality of life Support Gem for your Pain Offering, making it functionally immortal allowing your Minions to benefit from its effect for its total duration.

Skill Rotation

As with many Minion builds, you don’t typically cast your skills on a set Rotation, instead focusing on using them conditionally for specific reasons. Here is a list of your actively used skills, and when to use them:

• Despair should be used against tanky Rare and Boss enemies to shred their Chaos Resistance.
• Freezing Mark will enable Mark for Death support to shred enemy armour, and should be maintained on bosses.
• Pain Offering is a large damage steroid that should be used whenever you are fighting in a static situation, such as during League Mechanic Encounters, or when fighting Bosses.
• Hollow Shell should be used as frequently as is necessary to keep your Ward below 35% of its maximum value.

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Gearing

NOTE: Due to the massive amount of new crafting options, along with the new base types, adjustments to base values, core system formulas, etc., it is impossible at this time to provide a completely accurate list of the Best-in-Slot gear affixes and Socketables. As more information becomes available, we will update this section of the guide extensively, so make sure to check back and refresh the page frequently to ensure you have the most up-to-date information!

Gear Affixes

In the table below, you will see a breakdown of the most important affixes for each gear slot, as well as what unique items the build uses. These are listed in order of priority, so consider your gearing options carefully.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure that you are capped at 75% Elemental Resistances and meet all Attribute Requirements when you are changing gear pieces.

Slot	Base	Prefix	Suffix
Main Hand	Rare Sceptre (Rattling Sceptre)	1. % Increased Spirit 2. Allies in your Presence deal % increased Damage 3. % increased Spirit / # Maximum Mana	1. +Level of Minion Skills 2. Allies in your Presence have % increased Attack Speed
Off Hand	Rare Buckler (Desert Buckler)	1. # Maximum Life 2. % Evasion Rating 3. # Evasion Rating	1. Resistances as needed 2. Attributes as needed 3. Gain as Evasion Rating
Helm	Rare Helmet (Evasion Base)	1. # Maximum Life 2. % Evasion Rating 3. # Evasion Rating	1. +Level of Minion Skills 2. Resistances as needed 3. Attributes as needed
Body	Rare Body (Evasion Base)	1.% Evasion Rating 2.# Evasion Rating 3. # Maximum Life	1. Resistances as needed 2. Attributes as needed 3. Evasion rating gained as Deflection Rating
Gloves	Rare Gloves (Evasion Base)	1. # Maximum Life 2. % Evasion Rating 3. # Evasion Rating	1. Resistances as needed 2. Attributes as needed 3. Evasion rating gained as Deflection Rating
Boots	Bones of Ullr	1. % increased Reservation Efficiency of Skills which create Undead Minions	You will want to Upgrade these at the Verisium Anvil to gain a small amount of Ward
Belt	Rare Belt (Any Base, Breach Crafted)	1. # Maximum Life 2. Potential Minion Modifiers from Breach Crafting	1. Minions Strikes have Splash 2. Resistances as needed 3. Attributes as needed Additional Minion Modifiers could be valuable
Rings	Rare Rings (Resistance Base)	1. # Maximum Life 2. Potential Minion Modifiers from Breach Crafting 3. # Evasion Rating	1. Resistances as needed 2. Attributes as needed 3. Potential Minion Modifiers from Breach Crafting
Amulet	Rare Amulet (Spirit Base)	1. # Maximum Life 2. # Spirit 3. % increased Evasion Rating	1. +Level of Minion Skills 2. Resistances as needed 3. Attributes as needed

Instilling Your Amulet

To unlock the ability to Instill your Amulet, you will need to progress along the Delirium Questline. When you have the ability to Instill, you should add Warlord Leader to your Amulet to scale both Minion Damage and Presence radius.

Unique Items (Work in Progress)

Bones of Ullr – These boots will dramatically improve your reservation efficiency, increasing the number of Minions you can have on the field.

High Budget Options (Work in Progress)

We will provide more options and context here, as more testing is completed.

Augments

This table will show you what Augments are used for each gear slot.

Slot	Socketable
Main Hand	Warding Rune of Bodyguards
Off Hand	Resistance / Attribute Runes
Helm	Idol of Ralakesh
Body Armour	Hawk Idol / Fox Idol
Gloves	Cadigan’s Epiphany / Rare Jewel
Boots	Legacy of Wanderlust / Farrul’s Rune of the Chase

Jewels

This build can leverage strong affixes on Sapphires to scale your Skeletal Reaver Minions, here are a few you should keep an eye out for:

• % Increased Minion Damage
• % increased Minion Attack Speed
• % Minion Elemental Resistances

In addition to regular Jewels, you could also pursue Unique jewels such as Heart of the Well, though it has incredibly high variability of affixes, or Prism of Belief (Skeletal Reaver) for additional skill levels up to the maximum cap of Level 40.

Flasks and Charms

The recommended setup for your flasks and charms is:

• Life Flask – % Recovery applied Instantly | % reduced Charges per use
• Mana Flask – % of recovery applied instantly | % reduced Charges per use
• Charms – Thawing Charm, Gold Charm, Silver Charm
  • Also grants # Guard | % reduced Charges per use

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Changelog

• May 30th, 2026: Build Guide created for Path of Exile 2 (0.5 Update)