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

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gemstone13 wrote:

Thanks for the detailed reply DrHarvey12 & Mika2salo

Can you also explain which combo is best for skill gems?

e.g Level 21 with 0 quality
Level 20 with 20 quality


I tried using POB and the 1st combo yields higher dps for FG.
That said, can we use GCP on a corrupted skill gem?

Thanks again!

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Hi Mika,

Ok - thx for the info.

Without purity specs will have 45% resistances or possibly 55% if getting a Stygian Vise and then getting minion resists on an abyss jewel. However I am not planning on needing any more than just the 45% and then running a purity of elements which gives 32% all res with aura effect buffs. Enough to cap them at 77%. I am happy to babysit them in delves since I tend to stay near to minions anyway. For bosses - maybe some red tier maps and possibly red elder if he spawns there. I can try to stay fairly close to them.

I wasn't planning on getting them from a T16. I'd just level them up as I progress up in maps as well as in the Delves - I assume if you can get to equivalent delves like t14 / 15 then you will always be able to summon new TV spectres at that level so essentially for free - at least that is what I hope!!

If all else fails I will just swap out elemental focus for Minion & Totem Elemental resistances - take the damage loss and see what aura may fit in.

And that is what it all comes down to in the end and why I am going for this slightly janky setup!!! That damn aspect of the Spider I was trying to run!

That made me buy the shaper helmet with mana reduction which will work well for golems but poorly for spectres. With all the mana reduction harmonies and the plan to go for a reduced mana reservation shield I could run blasph temp chains & enfeeble with enhance, then discipline & aspect of the spider. Once I dropped aspect of the spider I have enough mana reservation left to shoe-horn in a purity of elements (but only just) and frankly I can't think of another good 35% aura to run - vitality and arctic armour both seem meh!!!

I fully accept my setup won't be the "best" way to do it, or possibly even a good way!! XD But having committed to so many of these items I am happy to make use of them in some way that sees a benefit from having them. In this case getting a lot of aura's to run and then getting slightly higher damage supports for the spectres.

In fact the one time I did run spectres it was so demoralising losing them once you had gotten them from a high level map I pretty much decided at that point to not bother with them again. I am relenting slightly in this case to having "disposable" spectres. If they survive - great. If not, then I haven't invested too much into them (I do have minion damage on tree though as you suggest) and hopefully my golems will carry me.

All in all - it's weird, it's janky, it's definitely not min-maxed but if it works even a little I will consider the league a success. Success for me is getting into red maps AT ALL and maybe the corrsponding delve level. I don't have lofty goals. I just love running golems through fairly low-ish maps, clicking boxes and picking up all the loot! I will try red maps to see what all the fuss is about (assuming I get any) but my league goals are basically just to have fun & not stress about losing the odd spectre here or there and having to buy access to another t15 / 16 (and possibly getting scammed again :( ).

Anyway, I'll probably be wanting to join your guild at some point; I'm currently in one atm and will stick with it till the end of the season as some people have helped me there and I want to repay them the favour if I can. Plus I only tend to run golems every other league atm. maybe then we can all share high tier maps!!

I will of course let you know how things progress. I still need several pieces before I transition to spectres but am getting close. Got my Presence and some rings & some shaper blind gloves. Just waiting on shield, belt & lvl 3 enlighten and lvl 21/20 FG.

All the best in the league Mika and thx again for your truly excellent guide and your continued involvement and advice in the thread!! <3

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Hi. I am interested in joining the Golemancer guild. I tried to message some people mentioned in the post but they are either offline (timezones I guess) or the game says that the character doesn't exist. Maybe I could get an invite through the forums?

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IGN: rapedby_fps inv boss

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gemstone13 wrote:

Hi Mika, for endgame with 3 TVs and 4 FGs.. would it be better to use flammability aura?

Seems like the benefits are better in terms of -fire resistances and also increases chance for ignite, which overall boost damage vs elemental weakness.

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roguegoha wrote:

Guys, can you tell me breakpoints for golem's skill cooldown? I've seeen them somewhere, but can't remember where/

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Hi Mika, for endgame with 3 TVs and 4 FGs.. would it be better to use flammability aura? (Apologise if this has been discussed, cos there are too many pages to browse through.)

Seems like the benefits are better in terms of -fire resistances and also increases chance for ignite, which overall boost damage vs elemental weakness.

Maybe can put this in the faq section?

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Quality on Ele Weakness also boosts elemental penetration so a 20/20 Ele Weakness penetrates 44% of all elemental resistances. Flammability penetrates the same 44% at level 20 and quality just adds some extra ignite duration.

I would imagine for group play having elemental weakness is more beneficial to the party as a whole. Assuming you are running combustion anyway your flame golems should already have a good chance of igniting.

If you are not running groups then you don't really give up anything since all the damage we will be doing is fire damage of one sort and some extra chance to ignite can't hurt - however given the number of attacks 4 flame golems make I'm not sure the extra chance is really needed.

So yeah, feel free to run flammability if you prefer or if it's much cheaper to buy a leveled one with quality. In the past when I stacked 4 curses I would have both flammability and ele weakness on hit. Given the less effect of curses on bosses having them cursed with both actually saw quite a lot of penetration with EE on top.

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Thanks DrHarvey12 for the reply, yeah i’ll give flammability a go to see how it turned out,

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mika2salo wrote:

Harvey is right, Elemental Weakness scales well with quality and that way with Enhance.

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Neograff1 wrote:

Gyus, i need a recommendation. Have 15-20 ex, what upgrade first in my gear?