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

Hey Mika,

Have you seen the new div card that Bex made called Cursed Words? It gives you a helmet called Maw of Mischief that includes the line "minions are aggressive"!

It's not a particularly great helmet apart from that but if the helmet ends up being cheap and you are only running golems it might be nice as something to run early on.

Not too sure about the blowing up minions part of it but it does increase their damage significantly supposedly so it might also be fun to test out on a high damage golem like an ice golem.

I'm quite enjoying Heist league atm. I've not had the crashes so far that others seem to have experienced so hopefully that continues. Not sure I will get round to golems this league atm but I look forward to seeing how others get on with them.

Hope you are well Mika :)

Any thought on which alternate gems (awakened or alternate) would be worth pursuing.

I was thinking specifically of the buff ones on the elementalist build for stone/chaos.

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DrHarvey12 a écrit :

Hey Mika,

Have you seen the new div card that Bex made called Cursed Words? It gives you a helmet called Maw of Mischief that includes the line "minions are aggressive"!

It's not a particularly great helmet apart from that but if the helmet ends up being cheap and you are only running golems it might be nice as something to run early on.

Not too sure about the blowing up minions part of it but it does increase their damage significantly supposedly so it might also be fun to test out on a high damage golem like an ice golem.

I'm quite enjoying Heist league atm. I've not had the crashes so far that others seem to have experienced so hopefully that continues. Not sure I will get round to golems this league atm but I look forward to seeing how others get on with them.

Hope you are well Mika :)

Hello :)

I checked the helmet and as you said the stats on it are kinda weak. The aggressive AI is nice, but won't chance Spectres AI. The helmets level requirement is pretty high, so it might be possible to buy Animat Stone at that point.

It's pretty fun that GGG does permanent Golems, and then suddenly we have item that can make them explode. Resummoning Golems takes quite a while and you are defenseless during that time, so using the skill can be tricky.

I'm enjoying popping in game and instantly start running maps or Delve now that minions are permanent. Lets hope that all goes well during the league.

Thanks, weekend has been awesome so far! I hope yours is also ^^

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Any thought on which alternate gems (awakened or alternate) would be worth pursuing.

I was thinking specifically of the buff ones on the elementalist build for stone/chaos.

Hi :)

The alternative quality is actually pretty nice in Stone and Chaos Golems. Unfortunately PoB won't show the increased in number with buffs, so I can't test how much it actually is. However if you linking Stone and Chaos Golems with Enhance lvl 4, you will get roughly 50% increase in Golems buff.

Awakened gems are awesome, but cost a lot. Some are cheaper like Minion Damage and Blasphemy, so maybe get those first if you have already everything else.

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mika2salo a écrit :

The alternative quality is actually pretty nice in Stone and Chaos Golems. Unfortunately PoB won't show the increased in number with buffs, so I can't test how much it actually is. However if you linking Stone and Chaos Golems with Enhance lvl 4, you will get roughly 50% increase in Golems buff.

Awakened gems are awesome, but cost a lot. Some are cheaper like Minion Damage and Blasphemy, so maybe get those first if you have already everything else.

Haha yep. I just saw the prices and the awakened gems are expensive. League has been weird for me. (Haven't played in about a year) I'm not used to 21/23 gems being so cheap, but primordial harmonies/might being so expensive. Gonna buy a 21/23 ice golem gem, the alternate chaos and stone. Guess gonna farming currency for the jewels after that. Once I can color my helm, gonna run with a 3/3/1/1 build until I get those jewels.

Can anyone tell me how many of each golem im supposed to run? I currently have 10 golems, should i run 4 ice 4 fire 1 Stone and 1 Chaos?

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frostythecat a écrit :

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mika2salo a écrit :

The alternative quality is actually pretty nice in Stone and Chaos Golems. Unfortunately PoB won't show the increased in number with buffs, so I can't test how much it actually is. However if you linking Stone and Chaos Golems with Enhance lvl 4, you will get roughly 50% increase in Golems buff.

Awakened gems are awesome, but cost a lot. Some are cheaper like Minion Damage and Blasphemy, so maybe get those first if you have already everything else.

Haha yep. I just saw the prices and the awakened gems are expensive. League has been weird for me. (Haven't played in about a year) I'm not used to 21/23 gems being so cheap, but primordial harmonies/might being so expensive. Gonna buy a 21/23 ice golem gem, the alternate chaos and stone. Guess gonna farming currency for the jewels after that. Once I can color my helm, gonna run with a 3/3/1/1 build until I get those jewels.

Hello :)

Yep, most Awakened are pretty costly. I however just bought some cheaper ones for few dozen chaos and they are straigt better than 20/20 even at level 1. They also take ages to reach higher levels, so something to look for when leveling ^^

I should also buy 21/23 Chaos and Stone, but they cost multiple exalts in standard. Mine are still 21/0. Maybe I will buy then when league ends and the prices are down for few days.

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Can anyone tell me how many of each golem im supposed to run? I currently have 10 golems, should i run 4 ice 4 fire 1 Stone and 1 Chaos?

Hi :)

Basic setup for Elementalist is 4x Ice Golems for single target damage, 4x Flame Golems to clear packs fast and 1x Stone & 1x Chaos for buffs. For Some endgame bosses you might want to try 7x Ice Golems and for something like Breach runs 7x Flame Golems. Test and see what mix works best for you ;)

Just got a 6L drop of solaris lorica from heist reward room. I think its a reasonable substitute for shavs until I have the currency for it? Might be better then skin of the loyal (at least defensively) for the elmentalist build?

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frostythecat a écrit :

Just got a 6L drop of solaris lorica from heist reward room. I think its a reasonable substitute for shavs until I have the currency for it? Might be better then skin of the loyal (at least defensively) for the elmentalist build?

Hey :)

Solaris Lorica is better for HP / armor bases build. You energy Shield should be more than half of your EHP after all, so I would rather use rare ES armor or Skin of the Loyal and stack chaos resistance.

If you get enough chaos resistances, you should be able to use any armor as Shavs is used to prevent quick deaths from sudden chaos damage spikes. Most endgame bosses / content don't actually have that much chaos damage. If you have near capped chaos res and are quick to use HP flask, you shouldbe fine with almost any ES armor ;)

How much currency I need for this build to do T16 red maps? I'm a casual player and I always wanted to do a golem build since I heard it's the ultimate lazy build

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ChosenOne_00 a écrit :

How much currency I need for this build to do T16 red maps? I'm a casual player and I always wanted to do a golem build since I heard it's the ultimate lazy build

Hello :)

You can start pretty cheap as running Spectres is very effective. You can enter t12-13 maps with 20-30c currency if you make some good trades. You can also level as Elementalist and use about 5-10 Golems depending on how early you can get Primordial chain / Anima Stone.

Getting Golems to run at maximum potential however is not very cheap. You need primordial jewels which have been few exalts total last few leagues. Also some endgame uniqies can be quite expensive.

Most parts are pretty cheap as hybrid HP / ES gear is cheaper than either high end ES or HP gear alone. Chayula amulet can be swapped with good rare amulet with chaos resistance for Necro varitant and Skin of the loyal can be swapped to any good ES rare 6-link armor.

Build is very lazy to play as Temporal Chains slows trash mobs down, Golems kill enemies far from you so on-death effects are not close to you and there are other defense mechanics. With decent EHP you can take one big hit even from most endgame bosses.

During boss fight you have to be active and kite around as some of the bosses can hit very hard and you can be taken out in few big hits. Also rushing to packs before your minions can draw aggro from enemies can be dangerous.

In general you start cheap and can enter mid-endgame maps with relatively low budget. At that point you can run any map mod and should start to get decent currency income. With that you can slowly build the gear until you feel safe to run t16 maps lazily ;)