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

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Scarraner wrote:

can i usw a brightbeak for mapping with this build as a elementalist or would i loose to much dmg?

Hello :)

Using Brightbeak trades some damage to speed. It's possible to use it especially if you have Primordial Jewels already and can raise max number of Golems. You might want to test the difference, but I'd say that its possible.

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I got lucky with helmets, 18 minion life ,16 minion damage. Plus increased minion damage and life.

First uber lab I landed a 20% reduced discipline reserve.

I can run ele, temp chains, and discipline and have enough mana to cast golems for damage buff.

Hi :)

Gz on very nice enhancement!

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Hello I'm am one level away from finishing the leveling guide and will have all five jewel slots unlocked.

I am using the following Jewels:

1 Anima Stone
1 Primordial Might
2 Primordial Harmonies

My question is what should I put as the 5th Jewel?

Thanks in advance!

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Im still a noob to Golem stuff, but my guess would be another primordial harmonie :)

Hey :)

Check that your Golems and other minions have all elemental resistances maxed :
- Base res (40%)
- Herd the flock (40 + 16% = 56%)
- IF USING, Vicratios Charity with Necro Aegis (56% + 8% = 64%)

Even with Victarios Charity giving extra ele res to minions, Golems end with about 64% elemental res which is still 11% from the 75% cap. You might want 1-2x "10% ele res for minions" rare jewels socketed to make sure Golems stay alive during endgame boss fights.

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Hello :) I have 90 lvl necromancer using solar guards and TV for bosses, but I want to try you build.I play on standard only, so which build is hmm, I wont use word BEST, but..most suitable for standard these days?Can I reroll to occultist or elementalist at all if they are better?Sorry for the noob questions,I am still learning the game.

Hi :)

Not sure if your are comparing pure spec vs golems + specs or necro vs occu vs ele?

Switching between necro, ele and occu is very easy as gear and tree are basically the same. Almost only Ascendancy nodes have to be respecced and first labyrinth ran to switch between Ascendancies.

Differences are defense, offence and utility related :

Necro is cheapest to gear and has best boss damage. Specters deal massive damage while Ascendancy gives nice block chance and elemental resistances which makes gearing easier.

Elementalist is more damage oriented, but I really like the 4+1+1 Golems mix if you have currency to buy Death's Door boots and maybe chance to blind gloves. You are immune to freeze, chill, burn, shock, bleed and with blind mobs miss you half the time. Bit expensive but really worth it.

Occultist is demanding on gear as it requires high ES to really regen ES back fast. However ability to curse hexproof mobs makes maps super safe and chaos explosions clear trash mobs faster than Necro or Ele. ES regen can easily stay at 20-30% per sec, so dying to trash mob is very hard. Capping curses is easier with Occultist as you get free curse effectiveness and extra curse.

If not sure, I would start as Necro as its very strong and should be familiar to you. Once you get to know the mechanics and defenses, maybe switch to ele or occu to test them? ;)

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Hi all, I'm a lvl 89 Necro using this build and liking it so far. I recently managed to afford my Presence of Chayula and Skin of the Loyal but I'm just sitting on about 2.1k life and 6.3k ES. I couldn't do Uber Atziri and still can't take it easy in T14+ maps and bosses. This is without Necromantic Aegis and Victario's Charity using a 50% block chance to spells shield. Also already got Anima Stone and 6 Harmonies.

Here's my character page: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/toilet94/characters?characterName=PikaPikaMudafuka

I realize my gear isn't maxed, but am I supposed to be having trouble? I tried to follow the leveling guide as exactly as possible. Please let me know if there's some kind of upgrade or point allocation I'm missing cause it isn't really fun running high level content right now.

Thanks for all the help!

Hello :)

Your gear is starting to look pretty good with gems. Build requires some kiting and knowing boss mechanics as 75/75 block chance can not be archived anymore with Necromancer. Block chance is now meant to save from bad kites few times in the battle rather than tanking boss damage.

As boss fights should be pretty short with your minions damage, I recommend kiting in circle around the boss the whole time the fight lasts. Move in circling about 1/3 screen away from boss in same direction. This lets Temp Chains and Ele weak to hit boss, while boss cant use really dangerous melee attacks on you. Temp Chains slowss all boss minions down, so you can only focus on kiting boss.

Most important part is to never stop for long time. Just to keep Offering up and hit boss with Elemental Equilibrium.

You can check FAQ section for how to kill bosses. Gear part is bit outdated, but strategies about how to move in bosses and how to kite are exactly the same.

After learning boss moves, all bosses are easily doable deathless as they manifest moves pretty nicely. Hope this helps ;)

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Can somebody explain the reasoning behind going Hybrid instead of CI?

Hey :)

Endgame chaos damage is not very dangerous as Presence Of Chayula or lot of chaos res from rare rings, ammy and belt give enough chaos res.

CI or Shavs drop either EHP or Golems damage significantly for almost no extra protection.

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Hi :)

Not sure if your are comparing pure spec vs golems + specs or necro vs occu vs ele?

Switching between necro, ele and occu is very easy as gear and tree are basically the same. Almost only Ascendancy nodes have to be respecced and first labyrinth ran to switch between Ascendancies.

Differences are defense, offence and utility related :

Necro is cheapest to gear and has best boss damage. Specters deal massive damage while Ascendancy gives nice block chance and elemental resistances which makes gearing easier.

Elementalist is more damage oriented, but I really like the 4+1+1 Golems mix if you have currency to buy Death's Door boots and maybe chance to blind gloves. You are immune to freeze, chill, burn, shock, bleed and with blind mobs miss you half the time. Bit expensive but really worth it.

Occultist is demanding on gear as it requires high ES to really regen ES back fast. However ability to curse hexproof mobs makes maps super safe and chaos explosions clear trash mobs faster than Necro or Ele. ES regen can easily stay at 20-30% per sec, so dying to trash mob is very hard. Capping curses is easier with Occultist as you get free curse effectiveness and extra curse.

If not sure, I would start as Necro as its very strong and should be familiar to you. Once you get to know the mechanics and defenses, maybe switch to ele or occu to test them? ;)

Yes, I am pure spec build.I am wondering if I should stay necro, or go elemntalist , coz I really liked your idea with 4-1-1 golems.

Alrighty, completed my atlas today and killed everything by myself using "decent" gear.


Such a fun build :)

Thanks.

With Necromancer Ascendancy what is the setup ? only flame golems and TV's?

Hello, i have a question reguarding Animate Guardian, reading the guide i see the on that on the recommened items for it, they have a gem on them. So i bought the items and put the gems and dropped them but it wouldnt 'wear' them, then i removed the gems and it 'took' them, but on the guide says "You lose all gear it has if it dies, so to avoid its dying, it should not be used before its level 19-20. Without any defensive support gems". What does it mean ?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2119942

Hello mates, i have build some HC variant for this build.Lose some damage, but get much more survivability(i think its immortal if u just SC and w8 ur golems kill), and also can do any map mod.You are imune from any type of leech too.

The build uses a watchers eye with -7 mana cost for skills, 1x anima, 1x migt and 4x harmony
Key stones are ZO, BM, IR, EE.
We use 8 auras to bost as much as possible our resist and gives +24 as and cast speed to minions.We have tons of armour, ES, resist and regen(almost 15%), also gloves are linked to proc unhearth + spirit ofering with CWDT lvl 1, this combo heals us almost 1,5~2k ES per 500 damage taken, gives more minion damage and make them immortal too.
With a add lightning dmg on ring we proc EE with SC.
The suport minions are 2 TV only linked with minion life to give us - fire resist and some damage.AG give us ground and 2 curses(flam+elemenal weak)

AG gear is:
Bringer of rain
Zahndethus' Cassock Sage's Robe
Dreadarc Cleaver
Sentari's Answer Brass Spirit Shield
Rainbowstride Conjurer Boots
Southbound Soldier Gloves

This build gives constant ground, flamability and elemental weakness together.

Phanteon: Soul of Arkaali and poison imunity.
Bandits: kill all

The damage is still high and the character are tank as hell.


I have leveled to 90 now and got the last minion damage node, so its +185 now.


Gear

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Skill tree:

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMDAASzBS0NfA48EVAUcRUnFy8YVhmKGjgajxslHNwdFB2qIWAi9CW8KPoppSziMtE6UkCgRUdGcUa3SbFLrk25VdZXyVnzWpFeE1-wYVJk52ZUZp5mumhlaHRo8mqsa9tsC20Zb55yD3KpdPF6730YgKSCx4MJhMWFYIZgiECMsY8aj0aQM5BVkyeUb5itm4qboZu1oS-iAKaspwinK6h9qsSsqrQMuJO-T76KwGbDOspKytPMvNNv04_T-9fP2VvaYttP34rfv-DD4YjpAuoY6rrr7uyD7IrvTu-I8B_z3fba9zL3wffX-Ov5N_no-tL7Cf5J?accountName=Bhaltamoz&characterName=Eyslym

I think that's all. Ty mika2salo for the nice build.
OBS: i have a enlighted lvl 4 but a level 3 also works(98% reserved life)

Hey there I found a 3b2r1g Skin of the Loyal today and instead of selling it my first thought was: Finally I can do a Golembuild :D
Would you suggest lvling it a diffrent way knowing that I can provide the chest and the jewels from the start? I am a noob to minion builds ;)

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AlexAndonov wrote:

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Hi :)

Not sure if your are comparing pure spec vs golems + specs or necro vs occu vs ele?

Switching between necro, ele and occu is very easy as gear and tree are basically the same. Almost only Ascendancy nodes have to be respecced and first labyrinth ran to switch between Ascendancies.

Differences are defense, offence and utility related :

Necro is cheapest to gear and has best boss damage. Specters deal massive damage while Ascendancy gives nice block chance and elemental resistances which makes gearing easier.

Elementalist is more damage oriented, but I really like the 4+1+1 Golems mix if you have currency to buy Death's Door boots and maybe chance to blind gloves. You are immune to freeze, chill, burn, shock, bleed and with blind mobs miss you half the time. Bit expensive but really worth it.

Occultist is demanding on gear as it requires high ES to really regen ES back fast. However ability to curse hexproof mobs makes maps super safe and chaos explosions clear trash mobs faster than Necro or Ele. ES regen can easily stay at 20-30% per sec, so dying to trash mob is very hard. Capping curses is easier with Occultist as you get free curse effectiveness and extra curse.

If not sure, I would start as Necro as its very strong and should be familiar to you. Once you get to know the mechanics and defenses, maybe switch to ele or occu to test them? ;)

Yes, I am pure spec build.I am wondering if I should stay necro, or go elemntalist , coz I really liked your idea with 4-1-1 golems.

Hello :)

I would try Elementalist if you can get all the gear like deaths doors. The setup is extremely safe, fun to play and deals tons of damage. It's also different from spec necro, so you get some variation to playstyle ;)

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Alrighty, completed my atlas today and killed everything by myself using "decent" gear.

Such a fun build :)

Thanks.

Thanks for support ^^

Gz on getting full Atlas!

Gear and links look very good. Have you tried Occultist or Elementalist yet? ;)

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With Necromancer Ascendancy what is the setup ? only flame golems and TV's?

Hi!

With Elementalist you can run only Animate Guardian to keep Specs better alive with 6% regen as they dont have the 100% increased life from "Soul Weaver". Especially if you dont have minion life support in pseudo 6link helmet for Specters might die rarely in endgame fights. AG has also extra function like cursing enemies, drawing aggro and hindering their movement by -25%.

You can also replace Animate Guardian on clayshaper with "Fortify" to get extra protection for yourself when you shield charge towards enemy.

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Hello, i have a question reguarding Animate Guardian, reading the guide i see the on that on the recommened items for it, they have a gem on them. So i bought the items and put the gems and dropped them but it wouldnt 'wear' them, then i removed the gems and it 'took' them, but on the guide says "You lose all gear it has if it dies, so to avoid its dying, it should not be used before its level 19-20. Without any defensive support gems". What does it mean ?

Hey :)

Animate Guardians items are tied to char that summons AG out. You can take AG gem out and even insert new one, and new summoned AG will have the same gear as last one. However if the AG would die, you will lose all items you have equipped to it. That's why its very important to not take AG out in labyrinth, hall of GM and endgame bosses like Shaper or Uber Atziri.

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https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2119942

Hello mates, i have build some HC variant for this build.Lose some damage, but get much more survivability(i think its immortal if u just SC and w8 ur golems kill), and also can do any map mod.You are imune from any type of leech too.

The build uses a watchers eye with -7 mana cost for skills, 1x anima, 1x migt and 4x harmony
Key stones are ZO, BM, IR, EE.
We use 8 auras to bost as much as possible our resist and gives +24 as and cast speed to minions.We have tons of armour, ES, resist and regen(almost 15%), also gloves are linked to proc unhearth + spirit ofering with CWDT lvl 1, this combo heals us almost 1,5~2k ES per 500 damage taken, gives more minion damage and make them immortal too.
With a add lightning dmg on ring we proc EE with SC.
The suport minions are 2 TV only linked with minion life to give us - fire resist and some damage.AG give us ground and 2 curses(flam+elemenal weak)

AG gear is:
Bringer of rain
Zahndethus' Cassock Sage's Robe
Dreadarc Cleaver
Sentari's Answer Brass Spirit Shield
Rainbowstride Conjurer Boots
Southbound Soldier Gloves

This build gives constant ground, flamability and elemental weakness together.

Phanteon: Soul of Arkaali and poison imunity.
Bandits: kill all

I have leveled to 90 now and got the last minion damage node, so its +185 now.

Skill tree:

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMDAASzBS0NfA48EVAUcRUnFy8YVhmKGjgajxslHNwdFB2qIWAi9CW8KPoppSziMtE6UkCgRUdGcUa3SbFLrk25VdZXyVnzWpFeE1-wYVJk52ZUZp5mumhlaHRo8mqsa9tsC20Zb55yD3KpdPF6730YgKSCx4MJhMWFYIZgiECMsY8aj0aQM5BVkyeUb5itm4qboZu1oS-iAKaspwinK6h9qsSsqrQMuJO-T76KwGbDOspKytPMvNNv04_T-9fP2VvaYttP34rfv-DD4YjpAuoY6rrr7uyD7IrvTu-I8B_z3fba9zL3wffX-Ov5N_no-tL7Cf5J?accountName=Bhaltamoz&characterName=Eyslym

I think that's all. Ty mika2salo for the nice build.
OBS: i have a enlighted lvl 4 but a level 3 also works(98% reserved life)

The damage is still high and the character are tank as hell.

Hey and thanks for support ^^

The setup looks pretty tanky!

Hopefully it will help HC players interested in the build :)

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Hey there I found a 3b2r1g Skin of the Loyal today and instead of selling it my first thought was: Finally I can do a Golembuild :D
Would you suggest lvling it a diffrent way knowing that I can provide the chest and the jewels from the start? I am a noob to minion builds ;)

Hi :)

Gz on getting Sotl!

If you can get Anima Stone and primordial Might, you can start using Flame Golems as soon as you can summon them. I would get Tukohama Vanguard Specters for boss kills damage and Golems for clear-speed as soon as you can get them ;)

Sorry for the noob question again, but how do I get 6 golems at a time ?

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AlexAndonov wrote:

Sorry for the noob question again, but how do I get 6 golems at a time ?

2 for 2x clayshaper
2 for anima stone and 3x primordial
2 for elementalist