Fire golems tips

Hello!

I'm new to PoE and I've been playing in heist with a friend that is helping me out.

I chose to play the fire golemancer build that my friend sent me (https://www.poebuilds.net/flolems2) which is pretty fun for me.

However I don't understand how he can have 4 specters, 10 zombies, and 7 golems (5 fire, 1 chaos and 1 stone).
I personally have 3 specters, 9 zombies and 6 golems (4 fire, 1 chaos and 1 stone).

I'm lvl 83, I have almost every nods that the guy that made the build showed except 1 constitution nods and the death attunement that I still got with an anointments. I still have to do my last ascendancy but it's the beacon of ruin path that I lack off.

I was thinking that it may be the levels of my gems but I'm not sure about it. My summon fire golem is level 18
My empower linked to fire golem is still level 1
My raise specter is level 19 (+2 from the helmet)
My empower linked to the specter is still level 1
My raise zombies is level 19

Anyone? ^^

Characters are hidden. No POB link. How can anyone know what's up with your character.

Anyway for spectres you need lvl 25 gem (combining all the +gems from helmet, wand, neck, bones of ulr, w/e you're using) and death attunement specced.

For golems you have 1 baseline, 1 from golem commander, 2 from anima stone if you have it + 3 primordial jewels, 2 if you're elementalist, 3 if you use primordial chain and 1 for each clayshaper equipped. So the number can be anywhere between 4 and 11 depending how you're specced / equipped.

Zombies you can get an extra from lord of the dead, but tbh no idea what's the use of them outside of carrion golem spec (carrion does more damage per non golem minion nearby).

Ah, I didn't know my character was hidden, as said, I'm new to this x)

I think you can see it now?

Yep.

Replica primordial might gives you 1 less golem. Not sure why do you use this. If "cuz cheap" you can use bex helmet (maw of mischief) to make minions aggressive or just link them to feeding freenzy (btw lvl 1 empower does nothing).

All 3 of the replica items you're using are basically worse than the non-replica versions for what they do.

Spectre is lvl 21 so you're 4 lvls off. Since you're ele not necro (necros get +2 to minion gems), you will need lvl 21 spectre gem, a +3 socketed minion gem helmet and a +1 int gem amulet. Otherwise, you stay with 3 spectres. You could also use +1 minion gem convoking wand, but that's not ideal since you need clayshaper for extra golem.

If you want to improve your build I'd suggest checking this guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1827487

I'm not super knowledgeable about flame golem specifics, I'm playing the stone golem build (no spectre version) so it's kinda completely different cup of tea.

Thank you!

I didn't know replica were worst than the original items xD

So as I understand, my specter gems needs to achieve the lvl 20, then an at least lvl 3 empower gems and the +2 from the helmet will give me another specter, like the guy in the video from the link I sent.

But I still don't know how does he reach 10 zombies, from what I've seen, with the items he has, he should have 8 (6 from the lvl 20 gems and +2 with the two nods in the passive tree)? How can he have 10?