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!

Acolyte of Chayula Ascendancy Skills

All Acolyte of Chayula Skills and Passives

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 recovers based on other Damage Types Damage as well as Physical Damage
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
6	Lucid Dreaming	・Effect and Duration of Flames of Chayula on you is doubled
7	Embrace the Darkness	・ You have no 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

Best Acolyte of Chayula Ascendancy Skills

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.

Acolyte of Chayula Ascendancy Mechanics

Can Utilize Flames of Chayula

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.

Has the Option to Use Darkness

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.

List of Acolyte of Chayula Builds

All Acolyte of Chayula Builds

※ Select the latest patch for the latest builds, but click on the earlier versions if you want to see Legacy builds!

Build	Patch
Mana Stacking Acolyte of Chayula Focus: Endgame, AoE, Lightning, Tank, Mobbing	0.2
Ice Lightning Acolyte of Chayula Focus: Leveling, Endgame, Crowd Control, DPS, Burst Damage	0.1

List of Monk Builds

Acolyte of Chayula Base Class

Ascends from the Monk

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

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Class	Ascendancy Classes
Huntress	Amazon Ritualist
Mercenary	Tactician Witchhunter Gemling Legionnaire
Monk	Invoker Acolyte of Chayula
Ranger	Deadeye Pathfinder
Sorceress	Stormweaver Chronomancer
Warrior	Smith of Kitava Warbringer Titan
Witch	Lich Infernalist Blood Mage

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