Blazing Salvo Archmage Golemancer 40M+ DPS Unoptimized

Mandatory:
Pledge of Hands - this staff doubles our damage
Atziri's Foible - The mana and regen are insane, itallows us to equip other gear with less attributes
Essence Worm - The only way to get an aura


Helmet: Crown of the Inward Eye is BIS. You might be able to craft an insane double-influenced elevated helm that is better but it's not worth the investment. The enchanted base is only 1-2ex currently as well.


Body Armour: Shaper influenced, you want % of damage is taken from mana instead of life. After that, just fill out with flat mana, flat life, and resists. If you want to go deeper, % mana on kill and + crit chance are both on shaper chests as well and not to difficult to roll (crit can be forced with harvest too). If you want to use a double-influenced chest, I'd add in redeemer for increased mana recovery rate.


Gloves: You're looking for a pair of ritual base gloves with 30% reduced mana and 30% chance when you pay a skill's mana cost to gain that much mana implicit. Which base doesn't matter since you don't get any energy shield with agnostic. Search for one with high flat life and flat mana rolls and fill out resists. If you want something influenced, culling strike or unnerve are the biggest impact mods (but you can get both on a medium curse cluster as well). Big investment, little return.


Boots: Any rare with flat life, flat mana, good movement speed, and resists. You can use Essence of Zeal until you hit mana or life and bench craft the other if you want a specific base or buy an enchanted one.

Enchantment is increased mana regeneration rate.


Belt: Here you want a shaper/redeemer belt (ideally stygian) with increased mana recovery rate, flat life, flat mana. Grab a base belt, scour and use fertile catalysts. Then Lucent fossil until you have something you like. If you use a stygian, grab a jewel with more flat life and flat mana and whatever else you like. I prefer phasing, but it's not necessary.


Ring: Flat life, flat mana, resists is all you need. The base can be Cerulean or resistances. If you're trying to find something cheap or already crafted, vermillion, coral, or paua are all great options. Temple rings are a great option too.


Amulet Anoint: This is really open. There is no mandatory anoint. You can use this to fix stats/resistances if you need, get some mana recovery from Mind Drinker, extra curse to add conductivity to arcanist brand or Assassin's Mark on hit, or boost flasks effect and mana recovery with Aqueous Accelerant (my choice). If you find something better, please share.


Unique Jewels:
I use an intuitive leap to save 2 passives in the top socket and grab Enigmatic Defense for some block. This socket can also use healthy mind, which is a popular choice for many archmage builds. I find it sacrifices too much life in this spot.

I recommend using Healthy mind in the socket on the left of the tree trading 20% life for 40% mana instead.

We also have an anima stone to fit the 5th golem.


Watcher's Eye: Lightning penetration is a cheap and powerful option. I used one with % chance to recover 10% of mana with clarity, but its not a very strong mod. If you have a larger budget, 10% of damage taken fro mana instead of life with clarity is your best option. Combine it with lightning penetration if you can.


Cluster Jewels:
We want a large 8 passive with Scintillating Idea. As long as it's on the path to the medium sockets, that's all we need. Other good passives are Storm Drinker, Vengeful Commander, and Sadist.
Optionally, a medium crit cluster with 2 decent notables is a good choice. Pressure points is the best, the second notable can be basics of pain, magnifier, precise commander, or quick getaway.
You could also use a small cluster for another scintillating idea for more damage or stubborn student for more defense. I don't think it's necessary and just opted for normal jewels

Rare Jewels:

% mana double crit multi is a fairly cheap jewel (10c-20c). You can also drop some crit for resistances or attributes if you need to fill them out here.

I always try to get one with corrupted blood immunity and will sacrifice damage to do so.


Flask Setup:

Foreboding/Enduring Mana Flask of Warding
____ Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline to keep things moving
____ Diamond Flask of Quickening will help get through cast speed breakpoints

Optional Uniques:
Cinderswallow Urn is great for keeping mana up (especially if you don't have % mana on kill on your chest or Mind Drinker anointed
Bottled Faith is insane, but expensive
Dying Sun the +2 projectiles is a ton more damage and if your crit chance is high enough can beat out a diamond flask
Atziri's Promise The next best for an offensive flask, the life leech is nice too
Wise Oak This can be good, but it puts another hurdle in capping resists, especially if you are upgrading/changing gear still