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

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Mayamystica wrote:

In Gems > Shield charge, it says to keep the Shield charge gem at level 1 as it keeps the mana cost lower but when I had a look at the wiki it said every level costs the same so it seems beneficial to level the gem to gain the speed bonus while charging.
I guess that changed at some point but it seems now its worth levelling.

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Mayamystica wrote:

In Gems > Convocation, it says about keeping convocationg at level 1 to be used by cast when damage taken support.
While its only small it can be taken to level 5 to get a little extra healing buff from the use, increased from 19.2/s to 37.6/s.
While it is negligable, since noticing I've felt compelled to level my gem to 5.

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Mayamystica wrote:

I would also like to ask your oppinion on afew differences I have, though very minor ones.

In Item > Gear Recommendations > Flasks you recommend 'The Overflowing chalice' as an optional 5th flask, I liked it for a bit but I'm personally not sure about it as I have to loose my shield or take lost of chaos damage to get much use, also I'm not having too much trouble with flask charge gain.

Given so much of the guide is working on energy shield and wearing energy shield boosting gear I've been using a 'The Sorrow of the divine' flask and was wondering on what you thought of it as a 5th especially once chaos resistance is at a decent level I'd assume life damage becomes much more minimal.

It applies Zealots oath while the flask is in effect so the consecrated ground restores energy shield, while I do have to pay more attention to my health for chaos damage as I dont have any chaos resistance items it helps me keep my nice shield buffer up and I'm finding it a very useful flask.

Also another flask I've been using for maps I dont need a mana potion is a Quartz flask which I actually find especially useful for delving as I can run through the groups to keep up with the cart, along with the attack and spell dodge I'm finding getting from delve to delve to be much nicer than my ranger.

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Mayamystica wrote:

Also, in Levelling > Levelling Skill Tree and Gear > Step 4 - Preparing for Skin of the Loyal and Flame Golems, you say that skittering runes can be dropped if I manage to get a temporal chains lab enchant.
What points do you think are worth getting with those 3 extra points?
I was thinking maybe 'Mind Barrier' to the left of the upper central jewel or 'Alchemist' to the right of that central jewel.

Mind Barrier would give +10% spell block, some extra energy shield and block recovery.

Alchemist would buff potions effect and duration so some extra damage from the sulphur flask, small defence from Rumi etc..

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Mayamystica wrote:

(I assume it wouldnt be worth buying/making a really good shield then rolling the dice with a vaal orb to try and hit the right corruption)

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Thank you for the advice! I bought presence last night. I am up to 1779 hp and 4720ES. I droped the extra gems and Spiritual Command/Sacrifice. took nullification and Constitution. I'll see how it runs tonight! I can't really upgrade my rares yet cause presence tapped my monies for now. But now i know what to look for in an upgrade for rings ect. Thank you!

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Hi, Im currently playing through this build and absolutely love it, its my first league playing and I'm realling enjoying it though I did have to level another character as I found zombies abit boring once I got to maps and I couldnt afford the gems to be able to summon enough golems.
However once I got enough I swapped back and am really enjoying the style of play and how in-depth your guide is for levelling.

The whole levelling section was invaluable to me and the section covering the stats I needed to prioritise was especially helpful to me given I'm still learning the game, thank you so much for writing such an in-depth guide.

I have noticed afew bits of the guide are it seems out of date a tad so I thought I'd say so your aware,

In Gems > Shield charge, it says to keep the Shield charge gem at level 1 as it keeps the mana cost lower but when I had a look at the wiki it said every level costs the same so it seems beneficial to level the gem to gain the speed bonus while charging.
I guess that changed at some point but it seems now its worth levelling.


In Gems > Convocation, it says about keeping convocationg at level 1 to be used by cast when damage taken support.
While its only small it can be taken to level 5 to get a little extra healing buff from the use, increased from 19.2/s to 37.6/s.
While it is negligable, since noticing I've felt compelled to level my gem to 5.


In Gems > Animate Guardian under the header 'Applying Second Curse With Animate Guardian', you talk about using melee splash corruption to let the guardian apply hit curse on hit to multiple enemies.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that corruption doesnt exist anymore, in delve atleast.
The 2 corruptions I can see as being useful but in a must lesser way are +15-20% area of effect to apply elemental equilibrium faster or +5-7% increased attack speed to speed up movement with shield charge.


I would also like to ask your oppinion on afew differences I have, though very minor ones.

In Item > Gear Recommendations > Flasks you recommend 'The Overflowing chalice' as an optional 5th flask, I liked it for a bit but I'm personally not sure about it as I have to loose my shield or take lost of chaos damage to get much use, also I'm not having too much trouble with flask charge gain.

Given so much of the guide is working on energy shield and wearing energy shield boosting gear I've been using a 'The Sorrow of the divine' flask and was wondering on what you thought of it as a 5th especially once chaos resistance is at a decent level I'd assume life damage becomes much more minimal.

It applies Zealots oath while the flask is in effect so the consecrated ground restores energy shield, while I do have to pay more attention to my health for chaos damage as I dont have any chaos resistance items it helps me keep my nice shield buffer up and I'm finding it a very useful flask.

Also another flask I've been using for maps I dont need a mana potion is a Quartz flask which I actually find especially useful for delving as I can run through the groups to keep up with the cart, along with the attack and spell dodge I'm finding getting from delve to delve to be much nicer than my ranger.


Also, in Levelling > Levelling Skill Tree and Gear > Step 4 - Preparing for Skin of the Loyal and Flame Golems, you say that skittering runes can be dropped if I manage to get a temporal chains lab enchant.
What points do you think are worth getting with those 3 extra points?

I was thinking maybe 'Mind Barrier' to the left of the upper central jewel or 'Alchemist' to the right of that central jewel.

Mind Barrier would give +10% spell block, some extra energy shield and block recovery.

Alchemist would buff potions effect and duration so some extra damage from the sulphur flask, small defence from Rumi etc..

Im probably not even looking at the best place to put them but they both seemed solid to me at least.


Also, you recommend a shield with High spell block for defence, I havent been using necrotic aegis for quite a while now as I felt I needed the defence.

I have noticed that your shields have higher spell block which caused me to trawl through alot of wiki pages to find out that spell block changed and it seems you cant get quite as much any more
(I'd also assume that to be correct considering your comment in Item > Gear Recommendations > Flasks, saying Rumis gives so much to block, if I've mis-understood it I do apologise).

So, my question is, is it worth getting a Rathpith Globe (or quite a few) and trying for the corruption to boost spell block which wiki and poeaffix both say gives a percentage of block to spell block but delve patch notes say it gives +4-5% now.

Or would it be better to have the 12% block and get a higher energy shield boosting shield instead? (I assume it wouldnt be worth buying/making a really good shield then rolling the dice with a vaal orb to try and hit the right corruption)

Thanks so much again for the guide its so easy to read and understand.
Sorry if I sound abit noob-ish but as I said it is my first league and to be honest I only started playing as it was free and I needed something to take my mind off of my cold a month or 2 ago and have been addicted ever since.

Edit: Sorry extra thought, its mentioned above that zealots oath is useful for this league.
Would it be worth going up the right side for Wispers of doom and then only taking the first small node by Skittering Runes for 3x +5% increased curse effect instead of 1x 15% and 1x5% to free up a point for Zealots Oath?
That would then make The overflowing chalice alot better I think as it would keep Rumis full and regen shield like Sorrow of the divine for a small drop in curse effect.

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Hello Mayamystica. i'll try to answer to some of your question, but i won't be able to answer to everything. Excuse my Knowledge is not 100% complete :)
For ShieldCharge, you're right. (I checked PoEWiki)
Mika as a lot to do ans not enough time i guess and this is probably why he didn't checked that before. Thanks to this hightlight. I don't play with SC myself, some other possibilites are available now. I try FlamDash, LightningWrap and PhaseRun. I stick with PhaseRun now (for Delve it's quite usefull) and FD for Cliff/Ledge stuff.

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Again, it's right. However i prefer using Convocation myself (so it's a 20/20 Convocation).
Just awesome to help minions placement (for Bubule maker mobs or to stay with me as i'm quite fast) The best would be both, but we are limited in GemSocket so it's up to you. With Cwdt, manually or not. You can do without it too (i played without, but i prefer in manual) ;)

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Well, again, it's question of taste. The build is versatyle in it's playstyle and can be adapted to nearly every taste. For Elementalist Golemancer (for example) we can TAKE Zealot's Oath for extra ES recharge (we run with StoneGolem, Necro don't. Don't do that if you're Necro/Occu)

Personnaly, i run with PhaseRun+ID+Efficacy. I can be under PhaseRun 90% of the time. The Flask is another option for this effect.
I use a quicksilver (for speed run obviously) Amethyst (with Warding for Chaos damage) Basalt&Granite (with Poison and armor mods) for extra physical mitigation.

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Most of the time, we are going to pick a JewelNode if we can (for more Harmonie, or Jewels like WatcherEyes, AbyssJew with Hinder or stuff like that)

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Just an example for the AbyssJew.

I would go for MindBarrier in your case if a JewelNode isn't possible. EHP and survivability is our main focus in endgame. (the node only increase Shield's ES tho) Every good node with ES>Life are a good pick (looking at the little nodes with life/chaos rez for example) but ES is the first priority. Devotion isn't bad too, since we need Stats like everyone. Giving it with 14%life and a litle 3% Effect for Discipline. Why not?

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Only at the end, when you don't have anything to upgrade ;) Then you're going to buy expensive stuff and try to Vaal it. Or you buy it. But you do that at the end.
Hope this will help you, Mika should be here later to cover the rest of your question :)

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KouboMog wrote:

I don't play with SC myself, some other possibilites are available now. I try FlamDash, LightningWrap and PhaseRun. I stick with PhaseRun now (for Delve it's quite usefull) and FD for Cliff/Ledge stuff.

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KouboMog wrote:

However i prefer using Convocation myself (so it's a 20/20 Convocation).
Just awesome to help minions placement (for Bubule maker mobs or to stay with me as i'm quite fast) The best would be both, but we are limited in GemSocket so it's up to you. With Cwdt, manually or not. You can do without it too (i played without, but i prefer in manual) ;)

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KouboMog wrote:

Most of the time, we are going to pick a JewelNode if we can (for more Harmonie, or Jewels like WatcherEyes, AbyssJew with Hinder or stuff like that)
Verified
Just an example for the AbyssJew.

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mika2salo wrote:

Really helps when someone posts corrections as I have quite limited time and guide is pretty long to maintain.

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mika2salo wrote:

Life regen is kept mainly to negate defen of chaos ground. This can become really annoying in high tier maps when health flask has to be used constantly without normal HP regen. "The Sorrow of the Divine" is ok to use, but the Consecrated Ground effect are is very limited. I wont recommend staying in it for long and normal 1-2% regen to ES is barely noticable during flask effect.

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mika2salo wrote:

Quartz flask is very nice if you have already anti-freeze, burn, bleed and Rumis. One way to use Phasing even better is to run Phase Run -> Increased Duration -> Efficacy instead of Shield charge. Together with Temp Chains the -80% aggro keeps you very safe ;)

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mika2salo wrote:

Spell block is not most useful thing to stack as Physical damage is biggest problem. Ele res is 75% as other builds but armor is almost 0%.

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mika2salo wrote:

Area of effect is nice to boost curse range. Even onslaught can trigger once in a while as damage over time kills are give to players even if minions are doing the kill.

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mika2salo wrote:

Hope you are now healthy from your cold ;)

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I also noticed that 'adds x to y elemental type damage to attacks' applied to shield charge so charging into loads gets elemental equilibrium up without needing to pause.
Though I may have a go with them and find out what I like best.

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I hadnt thought about the chaos ground, makes alot more sense then to have life regen still.
However the flask actually gives me 404.1 es/second while on the consecrated ground, (providing the character sheet isnt lying) with 4149 shield and 106.4 life regen/second normally so its a decent amount of regen provided and the option to choose when to gain the effect of zealots oath but I do see why the life regen is so important.

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I didnt even think about the curse range, I'm using one with area of effect on it now and the range does seem nice, I had wondered a little as it seemed quite big while mapping the other day but I assumed I was imagining things.
Onslaught triggering sounds very nice, im suprised it works that way. While I probably wont try for it I'll bear that in mind as it seems quite a usefull bit of info to know.

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My first uber elder done
thanks a lot for this build :)

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i cant equip animate guardian both singularity and Rathpith Globe. When i put singularity and then shield the shield replace singularity, but Can have 2 singulatiyy at one time. pls help. also when have only shield abd add singularity it replaces the shield.

nwm i achieve that. First mace and then shield and it works.