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

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PaintTheMap wrote:

SRS still feels pretty nice if you're supporting it with damage nodes here and there while leveling. Heck, I was missing around with a necro character last week that I stopped playing, and it still felt really nice to use SRS then. I love their AI a lot (they feel a lot nicer to use than skellies imo), just don't like their other aspects like timed duration and not grabbbing aggro, it's prevented me from ever doing a full on SRS necro.

Also, as soon as I grabbed commander of darkness on this character, which is a pretty massive damage boost to them, things are finally dying again at a reasonable pace. Not saying skellies wouldn't kill things faster, but yeah, you get my point.

I do realize how almost meaningless it is to bring up issues that most players will only experience for a short time, and that's if they even follow the leveling tree, but I just thought it was worth mentioning for any additional insight or if something needs to be tweaked for the newer players that try it.

Hey no prob,
About the AI/Aggro part, i was really surprised by how predicable and reliable skellies are, first they are another wall between you and mosnters (it's especially useful in small corridors), but you can spawn them on top of your priority target (let's say, that rare syndicate necromancer with a fuckton of auras). On top of that, you can move freely while SRS needs to be casted a lot, your mobility is pretty low early on when you're low on cast speed/gems levels, i really recommand to give it a shot with a 4 linked wraithlord.

The best part about it : it's the same 4 links setup than SRS.

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Mind barrier does next to nothing if you have Necromantic Aegis taken

I don't use Necro Aegis and my minions didn't even died in a tiers 15 so i'll assume i'll never need it, i'll probably try to get mind barrier to see how much ES i can get out of it vs getting 3 max energy shield% nodes, with my current shield i should get 150 to 170 flat ES, so with % bonus applied to it it'll probably bump me close to 7K ES total after.. if it's not good enough i can still respec it ! :p

again thanks for your guide, clear speed is excellent, and so far it's styling on the Syndicate

Feel really weird saying this, but convocation has become one of my most used buttons now. I was not here when they changed it(Abyss was my last league with golems), but was so surprised when I found out it is an instant skill now.

I believe during Abyss I had it linked to cast when damage taken, but with it being instant and such a low cool down now with Invoker, I'm really loving it.

Also, I've got three specs this time instead of two. Went to fight Hydra, got in a constant close call situation where I kept almost dying for about 25 seconds straight at the start of the battle, because of my own dumb positioning, and just when I finally thought "OK, almost back to full ES" heard the Hydra die... that's so insane how fast the vanguards kill him with an extra one this league.

Edit: Wow, I've been looking for a melee splash clayshaper for animate guardian all league, after not seeing one I look it up, they got rid of that corruption it looks like, unless I'm just missing it on the wiki.

Oh wow that helmet is sick, but I really love temporal chains- something about seeing syndicates leap at me in slow motion only to die in the air xD.

Since I prefer my temporal chains helmet, would near capped temporal chains be a big enough defense boost to warrant the use of Victario's Charity + Necromatic Aegis?

I've ran it through PoB and I would go from 11.5k ES/H to 10k. I haven't died in a while and since syndicates were nerfed do you still think it'd be a good idea?

If you're leveling funded, it's far from a struggle to get this or similar builds rolling. Oddly enough, without any supporting nodes really, I've had the easiest time leveling ever (except when night's hold didn't require level 25 or when legacy facebreakers were just facebreakers)!

The basic gist is don't level as a pure summoner. Summon whatever you can, but level as if you are a 2-Handed Melee character. Use smite and holy relic. I run around one-shotting blue-packs, and minions do clean-up and blocking. Not that any blocking is needed, because holy relic keeps me topped off in health without touching my potions. Yes, even dealing with syndicates.

nice guide!
just one question i cant seem to figure out how your getting your 4th golem or am i just blind lol

I'm having some issues with T10+ Maps. I've done a Burial Chambers T11 map and with 4 golems and 2 specters it took me around 5-6 min to kill the last boss. I've never had any issues with damage on golem builds, I used to play Elementalist on other leagues and with 4-1-1-1 everything was melting until Uber Elder. I also seem to have a dps issue with the Syndicate trash, mainily on fortress of T10+ Maps.
My char's name is _Chesu_ can you take a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong ?
It's still a new char and I don't have the currency for skin of the loyal or a nice helmet, also the gems are at around lvl 18

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jpascual wrote:

nice guide!
just one question i cant seem to figure out how your getting your 4th golem or am i just blind lol

One default, one from clayshaper, and two from The Anima Stone(first is just given, second one you have to have three other primordial jewels equipped.)

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ezarurazvan wrote:

I'm having some issues with T10+ Maps. I've done a Burial Chambers T11 map and with 4 golems and 2 specters it took me around 5-6 min to kill the last boss. I've never had any issues with damage on golem builds, I used to play Elementalist on other leagues and with 4-1-1-1 everything was melting until Uber Elder. I also seem to have a dps issue with the Syndicate trash, mainily on fortress of T10+ Maps.
My char's name is _Chesu_ can you take a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong ?
It's still a new char and I don't have the currency for skin of the loyal or a nice helmet, also the gems are at around lvl 18

I think actually, you need to level up your gems since their damage will upgrade with higher levels

Since you are using phase run, instead of shield charge now. Would you still get the gem slot by Necromantic Aegis with the Attack Speed?

well now i'm confused what the best Necro / Occult / Elementalist» ?