[3.14] Flame Golem 101 - Complete Guide To Golemancy, ✔️All Bosses Down, ✔️Necro, ✔️Elementalist

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Cerebris написал:

Why does elementalist path not need descecrate? I spend all my maps reviving my spectres, and i've got minion life gem linked.

Edit: Just saw the above post, ha. I hadn't refreshed for a while.

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So this is an alternative to mika's build (which was my base), and I'm not willing to make a full post about it, i'll share it here :)

POB Link: https://pastebin.com/Z95jRbcR

This is basically how I play the golementalist for a few league now:
- CoH double curse (either flammability + Elemental Weakness or swapping one of these with temporal chains)
- Double aura (Vaal Discipline + Vaal Haste). Can be improved to have anger or any other aura that reserve the same amount, but need mana reservation nodes (and requires to remove EE if Anger)
- 7 Golems (Either 4Flame + Ice + Lightning + Stone / Chaos, or 5 + Ice + Lightning)
- No spectres (especially for this league, and I don't like them anyway)
- No cast while channeling, because I don't want to be blocked doing channeling skills
- No curse aura, because I want vaal haste (and I still don't feel curse aura required)

Flasks are really important:
- Health anti bleed + instant low life
- Quartz allows us to go through groups of mobs with phasing, adding some dodge to spells and attacks
- Basalt for some damage reduction and anti curse
- Rumi for Armour and block
- Quicksilver for moves. (I usually try to have +30% speed on it, as I don't have movement skills).
- I also have a mana potion in inventory, for no regen map, that I switch with Rumi)

Pantheon:
- Lunaris for damage reduction and projectile dodge/chain
- Shakari (I think it's this one) for chaos / dot reduction and poison immunity

How I play:
- Use ball lightning (can be swapped to arc this league or freezing pulse) to move your golems
- Use the potions and run through all rooms, trying to avoid a little bit the mobs not to be one shotted ;) so golem follow you while killing everything.
- Dodge, kite :)
- For boss, tough monsters, use offering and even vaal haste (especially in incursions)

Current stuff (in case you are lazy to look for it in my profile):
Stuff


Hope it helps and give some idea to people :)

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Hi again!

Do you think the onslaught on kill (corruption mod on clayshaper) works when our minions kill something? If it does, it would add a decent chunk of movement speed for little to 0 effort into this build :D

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Tbh, I don't think so, since everytime such mod is affected by minion, it usually says "you or your minions".

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damn, im still trying to figure out what's best, 6 flame golem or 4 flame golem + 1 storm golem + 1 stone golem, i can't figure out how much DPS im having with those 2 choices

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Holografik написал:

damn, im still trying to figure out what's best, 6 flame golem or 4 flame golem + 1 storm golem + 1 stone golem, i can't figure out how much DPS im having with those 2 choices

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You have so high cool-down reduction and cast speed on Golems that I wonder if you ever noticed if either cool-down or cast-speed become bottleneck in Golems bombardment? or do Golems cast as fast as much you can stack both Harmonies and cast speed?

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Anakhon написал:

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Holografik написал:

damn, im still trying to figure out what's best, 6 flame golem or 4 flame golem + 1 storm golem + 1 stone golem, i can't figure out how much DPS im having with those 2 choices

Test made with double curse (Ele weakness + flammability), EE, 10 harmony and haste
- 6 Flames: 63.2k dps trash mobs, 38k shaper dps, per golem, so beteen 228k and 380k total
- 4 flame +1 +1: 120k trash, 72k shaper dps per golem, so between 288k and 480k dps flame golem total

Type of golem you add doesn't matter.

So what to conclude:
- shaper dps is not that far from each other (well 60k is still around 25% difference)
- having more type of golem will make mapping more smooth (higher dps on trash), but less "balls in the air" so it might look slower.
- globally 4+1+1 is the best setup either for utility and dps :) (4+1+1+1 is also good, but more for utility golem than dps)

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You have so high cool-down reduction and cast speed on Golems that I wonder if you ever noticed if either cool-down or cast-speed become bottleneck in Golems bombardment? or do Golems cast as fast as much you can stack both Harmonies and cast speed?

Well, it feels like golems are constantly bombarding and casting as fast as they can, I didn't notice anything wrong actually, I will try to pay attention.
I was thinking about switching one harmony to eminence, for better boost (from lightning for speed and stone for life regen) and dps (theoretical seems higher) but didn't tried it yet :)

So far, i was just melting almost everything I cross, and bosses (up to t13 atm) are sometimes melting even faster than some rare mobs in the temple...

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Seeing the prices of Primordial gems this league think I may switch to this build, always wanted to do Golemancer.

How does the build manage with Choas mobs/bosses in the temple?

BTW a very easy and reliable way to get max level Spectres is to run Oba's Cursed Trove, last room is ilvl84; Map is usually pretty cheap to.

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Going to be trying this build on Hardcore. My very first character on PoE a few year ago was a srs witch, and I've always wanted to try Golemancer. Just a few questions.

1. Is anyone playing this on Hardcore, and how is the survivability? I've been playing a bit of Jugg, and I know this build probably won't be that tanky, but I don't like playing glass cannon builds.

2. How do you get the max level spectres you can get, and how can you see what max level you can get? I never really understood this mechanic.