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The Acolyte of Chayula is an ascendancy of the Monk class in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) that focuses on using the power of darkness. Learn more about the Acolyte of Chayula's mechanics, confirmed skills, and base class!
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The Acolyte of Chayula relies on chaos to increase their damage and sustain their life and mana. Listed below are the skills shown for the Acolyte of Chayula's ascendancy showcase:
| # | Skill | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ravenous Doubts |  ・Mana Leech is instant |
| 2 | Consuming Questions | ・ You cannot Recharge Energy Shield ・ Mana Leech effects also Recover Energy Shield |
| 3 | Chayula's Gift |  ・ +10% to Maximum Chaos Resistance ・ Chaos Resistance is doubled |
| 4 | Reality Rending | ・ 23% chance to Gain 25% of Damage with Hits as Extra Chaos Damage ・ 13% chance to Gain 50% of Damage with Hits as Extra Chaos Damage ・ 7% chance to Gain 100% of Damage with Hits as Extra Chaos Damage |
| 5 | Waking Dream |  ・Grants Skill: Into the Breach Into the Breach Creates a Breach around you, allowing you to see nearby Flames of Chayula. You are considered to be in a Breach while this skill is active. |
| 6 | Lucid Dreaming | ・Effect and Duration of Flames of Chayula Flames of Chayula Collecting Flames of Chayula grants the following bonuses: on You is Double・ Red Flames of Chayula Leech 7% of your maximum Life to you ・ Blue Flames of Chayula Leech 7% of your maximum Mana to you ・ Purple Flames of Chayula providing a stacking Buff granting 7% of damage as Chaos damage for 5 seconds, and stacks up to 10 times. |
| 7 | Embrace the Darkness | ・ Remove all Spirit ・ Base Maximum Darkness is 100 ・ For each Life or Energy Shield lost to Damage, reserve 1 Darkness instead if possible Darkness Reservation lasts for 10 seconds ・ +5 to Maximum Darkness per Level |
| 8 | Grasp of the Void |  ・ Gain 1% of Damage as Extra Chaos Damage per 20 Unreserved Darkness |
| 9 | Inner Silence | ・ 50% reduced Darkness Reservation Duration |
| Skill | Effect |
|---|---|
| Chayula's Gift | ・ +10% to Maximum Chaos Resistance
・ Chaos Resistance is doubled |
| Waking Dream | ・Grants Skill: Into the Breach Into the Breach Creates a Breach around you, allowing you to see nearby Flames of Chayula. You are considered to be in a Breach while this skill is active. |
The best ascendancy skills for the Acolyte of Chayula are the Chayula's Gift and Waking Dream due to their usefulness for most builds. Chayula's Gift is extremely helpful to survive endgame encounters with enemies that use Chaos, it also makes it easier to cap Chaos Resistance which is hard to obtian.
Waking Dream allows players to recover life and mana, while also being able to obtain damage buffs from the flames of Chayula. This is extremely helpful for sustaining life, mana, and damage in prolonged fights and mob encounters.
Acolytes can use the Flames of Chayula to recover life and mana. They can also use these flames to gain stacks of increased Chaos Damage, allowing them to increase their damage in any given situation.
Acolytes can also use Darkness in exchange for their Spirit resource. Gaining darkness essentially removes the ability to use Persistent Skills, in exchange Acolytes obtain increased Defense and Chaos Damage.
| Acolyte of Chayula Builds | |
|---|---|
 Ice Lightning Chayula |
 Ghost Dance Periodically Gain Ghost Shrouds. If you are Hit while you have a Ghost Shroud, it is immediately consumed to recover Energy Shield based on your Evasion.
 Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
 Tempest Bell Build Combo by successfully Striking Enemies with other skills. After reaching maximum Combo, use this skill to cause the Bell on your staff to grow to massive size as you drop it on the ground. The Bell damages enemies on impact and can be Hit by your skills, creating a damaging shockwave. Elemental Ailments applied to the Bell cause its shockwaves to deal extra damage of the corresponding type, and Hits which would have caused Knockback increase the area of effect of the shockwaves.
 Combat Frenzy While active, grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.
 Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
 Storm Wave Sweep your Quarterstaff, projecting a bolt of Lightning through the ground in a long wave ahead of you.
 Charged Staff Consume all Power Charges to infuse your Quarterstaff with electricity, adding Lightning damage and a Lightning shockwave to your Quarterstaff Attacks. Reusing this skill while the Buff is active adds to the Buff's duration and damage.
 Shattering Palm Dash to an enemy and strike them with an unarmed attack that manifests a wave of cold, coating nearby enemies in shards of Ice. Dealing enough damage to these enemies will shatter the shards, causing an icy explosion that deals Attack Damage. This skill always strikes with your bare fist, even if you have a quarterstaff equipped.
 Into the Breach A Flame of Chayula manifests nearby every X seconds;Flames of Chayula fade after 25 seconds if not picked up
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| Focus: Leveling, Endgame, Crowd Control, DPS, Burst Damage | |
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Summary: The Ice Lightning Chayula uses Shattering Palm, Herald of Ice, Tempest Flurry and Storm Wavel to clear mobs and freeze bosses fast for DPS. |
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Start as a Monk and complete an Ascension Trial to ascend into an Acolyte of Chayula. Completing an Ascension Trial will also give you the option to ascend into an Invoker.
Monk Class Overview and Ascendancies
| Class | Ascendancy Classes |
|---|---|
| Mercenary | ・Witchhunter ・Gemling Legionnaire |
| Monk | ・Invoker ・Acolyte of Chayula |
| Ranger | ・Deadeye ・Pathfinder |
| Sorceress | ・Stormweaver ・Chronomancer |
| Warrior | ・Warbringer ・Titan |
| Witch | ・Infernalist ・Blood Mage |
| Druid | Huntress |
| Templar | Shadow |
| Duelist | Marauder |
Acolyte of Chayula Ascendancy and Skills
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You got one thing wrong. Even though "Consuming Questions" says that your energy shield doesn't recharge, and your mana leech will recharge energy shield, what really happens is that your energy shield doesn't just recharge any more. Mana leech doesn't infact recharge the energy shield.