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

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Prod100 a écrit :

Hi, how large of donation do you need for guild increase? I'd like to join and if it's 5$ ill throw it your way for a spot.

Hello and thanks for offer :)

GGG has made guild system kinda funny as you can only donate to guild from inside of the guild. Minimum for extra slots is 10$ for 10x slots, so single guild joiners can't even pay for their own slot. I have been getting 10$ donation from guild members constantly but maybe 1-2x per league.

5$ will help get 5x new members in once guild gets the extra 5$ somewhere. I'll PM you can see what can be done ;)

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Alright great, thank you for all of your help with this guide, a lot easier especially for a noob like me haha. Planning to get my first 100 with this build.

Thanks for support ^^

There will be room in my lvl 100 Hall of Fame for you once you get there ;)

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did some crafting and actually got these without blowing through too much currency. They seem usable. Im proly gonna multi craft the helm once i figure out where to get multimod from.

the gloves are very "meh"

but im tired will try and do better tomorrow lol

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first try Delve crafting and already way better than Bones of Ullr. No movement speed but I can always just use quicksilver flasks right? I guess I can keep buying Fossils and try and make a better pair.

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Man, I have not really played since Abyss league, I had no idea this mod was on rare boots now.

Hi :)

You can getting pretty good idea of crafting! Gz on good rolls.

It's surprisingly cheap to craft end-game items and it feels better to have self-made gear in the end.

If you can hit HP into the belt, it will be endgame item. Try to roll upper line to 80 ES with blessed Orbs. Helmet looks very nice also.

The boots are very good already. Movement speed is pretty much what you want in them, but that amount of ES is great for making more tanky version. Hope you hit 100+ ES with 25%+ movement speed ;)

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I ended up finding this ilvl86 so it can roll +3 minion skills + other mods if someones intrested pm me

Hey :)

Conc area is most useful if you put Flame Golems or SG SPecs in the helmet.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2056832
This might be better build thread for it.

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Had a level 3 corruption chamber so I bought the chest in advance of switching to this build.

Hi :)

Very nice corrupts on that armor. Emp 3 should make Golems immortal to pretty much anything if you are using Flame Golems 21/0 gem already. If you can start with good gear, endgame will be pretty much smooth sailing ;)

I'm curious if its viable to do this with the build:

Drop one curse (temp chains)
Replace it with purity of elements (will need the resists)
Use shapers touch (extra ES)
Drop chayula
Add astramentis (for shapers touch bonus)
Pickup CI (since we lose a lot of chaos res)
Focus on str/res/es on rings/belt (can use a heavy belt with +12% attributes, or cyclopean coil)

Also, has anyone ran this build with atziri's reflection?

Thanks for answering my questions and for this build! Lv 91 and loving it.

I didn't know that you can have a +1 max. spec boot mod and made this today- Big energy shield boost.



Also managed to buy this temporal chains vertex and I hardly ever die now (except for the occasional syndicate)

Hi, can I use the new gem Multiple totem support for TV combined with 1 +1 totem veiled shield? Because as I see the main purpose of totem is for reduce fire resistance.

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NSUCK a écrit :

I'm curious if its viable to do this with the build:

Drop one curse (temp chains)
Replace it with purity of elements (will need the resists)
Use shapers touch (extra ES)
Drop chayula
Add astramentis (for shapers touch bonus)
Pickup CI (since we lose a lot of chaos res)
Focus on str/res/es on rings/belt (can use a heavy belt with +12% attributes, or cyclopean coil)

Also, has anyone ran this build with atziri's reflection?

This seems like it would have good synergy with an Occultist.

Dropping Temp chains wouldn't feel so bad when you have the regen from occultist topping up your ES constantly so getting hit more often isn't as painful! You would probably still want at least one blasphemy to benefit from the profane bloom explosions.

Shaper's Touch and Astramentis work well together. Dropping the Presence is ok on Occultist as you get free stun immunity and the loss of some EHP from not having 2-3k life is made up from the ES on the Occultist tree.

Even having Purity of Elements can work with covering the extra resists your spectres need; I did something similar myself last league and that worked ok. Best with the Leadership cluster to ensure your spectres are pretty much always under it's effect.

I definitely think it could work well with occultist. But I think if you are running an elementalist or Necro the most optimal setup's are sticking closer to what Mika outlines in the OP. However it's definitely going to be viable as long as you get your ES high enough. Plus Shaper's Touch and Astramanetis are fairly cheap so you can try it out and then switch to a more standard setup if you find it lacking.


A guy last league ran Atziri's Reflection. It's obviously a very nice defensive shield but you lose a LOT of damage by not using a Victario's Charity on Necromantic Aegis. Plus you lose golem surviveability as well. Not sure you would want that for bossing but it could be a nice mapping shield. I'm sure Mika will know more about it's benefits.

Long time Golemancer looking for an opinion. I finished uber lab with my starter helm and decided to enchant it, knowing I'd never get anything useful, then hit +40% flame golem damage. Still shocked by that.

Now, I have an odd choice between:

Level 18 minion dmg
Level 18 immolate (useless)
21% minion dmg
junk stats

vs. the typical

Level 18 burning dmg
level 18 minion dmg
20'ish minion dmg
good stats

It really boils down to minion and totem resists for spectres vs the enchant for the golems. In a league with tough syndicates to burn down, I'm leaning towards replacing it, but it seems like a close call. Any thoughts?

I wonder with the new craft + 1 summoned totem with a good shaper block shield would be op?

How are you all fairing against syndicate trials? They guys are destroying me at lvl 69

I'm getting my ass handed to me in maps, i'm level 73 with 110% all res and 4 golems (and spectres of course). Offense isn't an issue, i'm getting constantly one shotted by syndicate or any strong unique ennemy, it's really annoying and slowing my progression. Chaos damage is also an issue, even with a chaos flask. presence of chayula is like 4-5EX so i can't do much about it. I'll get my Rumi's next, but it won't help with the one shot or chaos issue, it'll just happen less often. :(

There is so much mess on screen too, it makes it difficult to dodge stuff.

The biggest jump in ES i can get (skin of the loyal) is like 1.5 EX away (or 4, with the presence of chayula), getting that much currency in this situation is kinda difficult.

I hope i'll get a big lucky drop soon so i can buy the skin of the loyal and kinda solve the problem

Edit : Can you elaborate on why we're playing as life/ES instead of full ES with CI ? Even with the Presence of chayula, life nodes investments seem really weak to me, am i missing something ? thanks in advance!

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NSUCK a écrit :

I'm curious if its viable to do this with the build:

Drop one curse (temp chains)
Replace it with purity of elements (will need the resists)
Use shapers touch (extra ES)
Drop chayula
Add astramentis (for shapers touch bonus)
Pickup CI (since we lose a lot of chaos res)
Focus on str/res/es on rings/belt (can use a heavy belt with +12% attributes, or cyclopean coil)

Also, has anyone ran this build with atziri's reflection?

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This seems like it would have good synergy with an Occultist.

Dropping Temp chains wouldn't feel so bad when you have the regen from occultist topping up your ES constantly so getting hit more often isn't as painful! You would probably still want at least one blasphemy to benefit from the profane bloom explosions.

Shaper's Touch and Astramentis work well together. Dropping the Presence is ok on Occultist as you get free stun immunity and the loss of some EHP from not having 2-3k life is made up from the ES on the Occultist tree.

Even having Purity of Elements can work with covering the extra resists your spectres need; I did something similar myself last league and that worked ok. Best with the Leadership cluster to ensure your spectres are pretty much always under it's effect.

I definitely think it could work well with occultist. But I think if you are running an elementalist or Necro the most optimal setup's are sticking closer to what Mika outlines in the OP. However it's definitely going to be viable as long as you get your ES high enough. Plus Shaper's Touch and Astramanetis are fairly cheap so you can try it out and then switch to a more standard setup if you find it lacking.

A guy last league ran Atziri's Reflection. It's obviously a very nice defensive shield but you lose a LOT of damage by not using a Victario's Charity on Necromantic Aegis. Plus you lose golem surviveability as well. Not sure you would want that for bossing but it could be a nice mapping shield. I'm sure Mika will know more about it's benefits.

Hello :)

Great post from Harvey, I haven't used that combo myself so hard to say much about it without Pob. I'm pretty vary myself about CI or mixing STR with ES after the big CI nerf, but have seen others doing it with success.

I would also try it with Occultist as it works better with ES regen in general.

One guy ran "Atziri's reflection" last league, but I didn't get any reply how it worked after all. It has nice ES and makes lot of maps safer to run as Temp Chains is not so annoying and you can cap ele res to 75% as Elemental Weakness would have no effect on you.

Original idea was to test if Golems would reflect Hall of Grandmasters curses back to them with Necromantic Aegis and Atziri's Reflection. Pack of masters usually stack 5-7 curses on each wave, so it would be funny to see all that thrown back at them. Golems would also be immune to curses and most likely tank masters much better.

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Thanks for answering my questions and for this build! Lv 91 and loving it.

I didn't know that you can have a +1 max. spec boot mod and made this today- Big energy shield boost.

Also managed to buy this temporal chains vertex and I hardly ever die now (except for the occasional syndicate)

Hey :)

Glad to hear it helped!

Those boots are very nice boost to EHP and Vertex has amazing enchantment. You might still want to add Enhance lvl 3 to your curses as you are using Vertex. That would really slow enemies down with the enhancement.

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Hi, can I use the new gem Multiple totem support for TV combined with 1 +1 totem veiled shield? Because as I see the main purpose of totem is for reduce fire resistance.

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I wonder with the new craft + 1 summoned totem with a good shaper block shield would be op?

Hi :)

In theory it should work, but TV Specs have now built-in check that they wont summon another totem while one is active.

I had fun before this was fixed running Templar which had +1 totems in helmet skills and "Tukohama's Fortress". I think I had 12 Totems up from just Specs at best with my own scorching ray spell totems added and trash mob fights looked like 80s laser disco.

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Long time Golemancer looking for an opinion. I finished uber lab with my starter helm and decided to enchant it, knowing I'd never get anything useful, then hit +40% flame golem damage. Still shocked by that.

Now, I have an odd choice between:

Level 18 minion dmg
Level 18 immolate (useless)
21% minion dmg
junk stats

vs. the typical

Level 18 burning dmg
level 18 minion dmg
20'ish minion dmg
good stats

It really boils down to minion and totem resists for spectres vs the enchant for the golems. In a league with tough syndicates to burn down, I'm leaning towards replacing it, but it seems like a close call. Any thoughts?

Hey :)

I would go with the "typical". Defensive stats are very important with Syndicates spike damages. Damage is already plenty, so staying alive in fight for few seconds longer should win over 1x support or damage enchantment.

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How are you all fairing against syndicate trials? They guys are destroying me at lvl 69

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I'm getting my ass handed to me in maps, i'm level 73 with 110% all res and 4 golems (and spectres of course). Offense isn't an issue, i'm getting constantly one shotted by syndicate or any strong unique ennemy, it's really annoying and slowing my progression. Chaos damage is also an issue, even with a chaos flask. presence of chayula is like 4-5EX so i can't do much about it. I'll get my Rumi's next, but it won't help with the one shot or chaos issue, it'll just happen less often. :(

There is so much mess on screen too, it makes it difficult to dodge stuff.

The biggest jump in ES i can get (skin of the loyal) is like 1.5 EX away (or 4, with the presence of chayula), getting that much currency in this situation is kinda difficult.

I hope i'll get a big lucky drop soon so i can buy the skin of the loyal and kinda solve the problem

Hi :)

Syndicates can be pretty overwhelming when leveling and not having good gear / minion level yet. Usual Temporal Chains / army of minions defenses is not as effective against Syndicates as previous leagues so some extra steps may be necessary.

1) Try to upgrade gear as often as possible

You have to be able to tank as least 1 big hit from Syndicates before you can start retreating. Good stats for items are :
- Amulet (40+ ES, 40+ HP, resistances, 5-20% maximum ES)
- Rings (40+ ES, 40+ HP, resistances, minion speed)
- Gloves (150+ ES, 40+ HP, resistances)
- Boots (80+ ES, 40+ HP, resistances, movement speed)
- Belt (110+ ES, 40+ HP, resistances)

There are for endgame items, but while leveling try to maximize ES per item and stack on chaos resistance. It's possible to cap chaos resistance without Chayula for about 20 chaos if you know what to look for. Here's example search to affordable but great rings : http://poe.trade/search/meurohohuahoma
You can edit the search terms to find similar items in belts, amulets or gloves.

2) Try replacing shield charge with Phase Run

Replace Shield Charge -> Faster Attack -> Fortify with Phase Run -> Inc Dur -> Efficacy. This gives you 3.5 sec Phase Run with 0.5 sec cooldown between activations. Phase Run gives you more time to react to Syndicates.

3) Try replacing Elemental Weakness with Enfeeble

Enfeeble scales nicely with Enhance. Flame Golems add already -20% defubb, TV Specs -24% debuff and EE -50% debuff to resistances so Elemental Weakness can be replaced for more defenses.

4) Try using "Vaal Skeletons" with 1-2x Abyssal jewels

Try to use Vaal Skeletons in unset ring with 1-2 Abyssal jewels. Jewels should have mods :
- Minions have chance to taunt enemies
- Minions have chance to blind enemies
- Minions have chance to hinder enemies

5) Never stop in the Syndicate fights

Don't worry about applying EE with skills. Minions will finish the fight in the end pretty fast. Just focus 100% on moving, Phase Runing and using flasks to stay alive.

Hope this helps :)

PS. We are going for hybrid as we lose lots of EHP (HP + ES) if going to CI. Endgame chaos damage is not usually that dangerous and chaos res is easy to stack in rare items. If you reach +20-40% you should be safe and regen should heal you faster than chaos degen can harm you.