I started Chieftain using both some attacks and holy flame totem and flamewood support. Sometime later later I really wanted to go the melee ignite route with controlled blaze and sadism, but damage was lacking. All in all super slow getting through the campaign.
Getting into maps I switched to Boneshatter (the build I wanted to do initially). Immediately felt much better, getting into yellow maps in a four link so far, still lots of room for improvement, I am somewhat optimistic. Lots of cool tech for hitting one self, such as recoup, endurance charge generation and self ignite.
Haven't really used the league mechanic too much. I can't really tell why I am either absolutely crushing it or being crushed, there seems to be no in between.
And finally I am really sad about the Guardians Blessing support. Can't be triggered, hard to impossible to keep your minion alive and you have to reactivate the aura manually. Ouf. Let me know if you found any good way to use it.
But I am having fun.
How's your league going?
I am having a blast! I took the bait and went gladiator retaliation and it is extremely powerful. Haven't bought a single piece of equipment yet and can blast through yellow maps. I am using two retaliation skills in parallel and that makes for a fun combo play style.
I like all the league stuff, the encounters have a cool feel to them and especially the beyond themed camps with their buff afterwards are fun. I also really enjoyed the small changes they made to the campaign although I'm sure I missed quite a few.