[3.10] Ice Golem Golemancer Build -DELIRIUM-BALANCED- ALL CONTENT -Everything Dies-Huge Damage

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TheBigNasty wrote:

It wasn't ignored, it was answered like 2 days earlier.

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Med1umentor wrote:

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PurpleMurp wrote:

Hi, I am currently leveling this build and enjoying it a lot so thank you!


Also, whats the advantage ice golems have over flame and vice versa?

So, considering that question was kind of ignored, i will answer. Although i can't say for sure, cause in late game with OP gear everything can be vastly different.

1) One of the main pros of ice golems over flame is comical - perfomance. Not every PC can afford to run those crazy flame turrets without slow-motion mode. Also, with flame golems, you absolutely don't see the boss, so you don't know what attack he is doing.
2) Pro of the icegolem, that they have an access to high end craft body armor with "maim included", which makes them pseudo-7-link.
3) Ice golems have access to abyss jewels with taunt on attack, and blind on attack. Flame golems use spells, so no luck for them.

So, now about pros for flame golems:

4) Ice golems quite clunky. Unless they can spam cyclone like crazy, they are very slow in general map clear. Same with, if 1 cyclone isn't enough for pack. So, if you are not at the point where they one shot eliminate entire pack by cycloning into them, you are gonna have a bad time. Flame golems on the other hand is always ready to decimate maps.
5) Phys reflect for ice golems is pain in the ass. You can still run it, but you would need to resummon them quite often, usually breaking the order and overwriting other golems. You can just not run reflect maps, sure, but i atleast want to mention that flame golems completely immune to any sort of reflect due to our ascendancy.
6) Ice golems need accuracy. It's not that big of a problem, but still "gloves/banner/precision aura" have their price on the build. Flame golem just free on that point.
7) Ice golems don't like to be away from you. I noticed that several times, when i make my emergency escape from one-shoty legion rares, ice golems just following me. Flame golems on the other hand stand still and kill that rare, while i evacuate.

P.S. In short, when your character becomes really high-end with expensive gear, ice golems starting to take lead. But before that, flame golems are better on almost every fronts.
But it's hard for me to say what comparison in late game too. Cause both ice golem builds and flame golem builds can obliterate uber elder in 2 minutes etc, so can't even say if high-end ice golem better than high-end flame golems. But the fact that ice golems let you see what attack that uber elder doing in a moment, it's quite valuable "pros"

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PeaBrain wrote:

Can you post a 3.7 Path OF Build tree?

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nnlinhitec wrote:

Hello guys, could you please explain how good Empower for ice golems setup?
My pastebin show me that my ice golem's cyclone DPS:
- Ice Golem - Minion Damage - Maim - Melee Physical Dmg - Multistrike - Ruthless: ~300k
- Ice Golem - Minion Damage - Maim - Melee Physical Dmg - Multistrike - Empower 3: ~280k
- Ice Golem - Minion Damage - Maim - Melee Physical Dmg - Multistrike - Empower 4: ~310k
I misunderstood anything?