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

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The +1 level on most items are bonus, not necessity. +1 Rainbowstride can be bought later in league for cheap as players keep corrupting more of them. Players are farming t16 Guardians with normal 5 link Infernal Mantle already. You can buy rare amulet and not lose huge amount of EHP. Most powerful items that I'm linking as end game gear should be showing potential, not requirement.

Take league easy, map safe tiers and update gear slowly when you get enough currency for next update. Later in league all prices for non "Anima Stone" items will drop considerably ;)

Guys, i'm playing Standard, no idea why you always talk about league.
So I guess prices here are more or less stable. And they are awful.

Can this build do Hall of Grandmasters?

I see people talking about Spectres, but this build doesn't use Spectres, does it?

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zzmastermindzz wrote:

Can this build do Hall of Grandmasters?

Yes, i cleared it yesterday with :stronk:

in previous builds ive seen like 5 harmonys used with a might and a anima stone does that have any merit over using two rare jewels? recently swapped to the golems now and i couldnt really tell a diffrence betwen using 5 harmonys or 3

Considering how long you'll apparently be relying on spectres referring to it as a golem build seems a bit misleading

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mika2salo wrote:

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Thanks for the quick answer. Following on, I'm thinking about adding Enfeeble to the Blasphemy (and leaving out Discipline), reasoning that losing a nerfed Discipline will cost ES, but the Enfeeble (with a gigantic AOE) will more than compensate for that.

And following on from that: Taking Hexmaster (the curse cluster near CI) will add another 10% effectiveness to both and 40% AOE to the curses.

And maybe worth adding to the leveling Guide: Raatling Condemned from Act 6 Prison make fantastic melee Spectres. Blenders with legs.

That is valid logic and Enfeeble will also protect minions too. However bosses have resistance to curse effectiveness and I think bosses will hit way harder than what the Enfeeble will give protection at cost of Enfeeble. However if you are not using Infernal Mantle, you can maybe squeeze Discipline in on some links for second curse?

Thanks for the tip! Definitely going to test the specters :)

Still leveling so no money for 5L/6L Infernal Mantle, and with a few mana reduction nodes, I could also add Discipline, leaving no mana.
Need to experiment on how to trigger EE now: maybe CWDT/Ice Nova/Inc AOE?

I have also taken the Skittering Runes curse cluster (just above Scion life wheel) for another 20% curse effectiveness. Things are definitely slowing down now.

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hwat wrote:

I don't know, guys, after first very nice impressions on this build I suddenly realise that as new player in PoE I will NEVER farm such amount of money to get all these items.
I mean, do you ever check prices on poe.trade?

1. Mantle +1 — 50 ex minimum and you need to find right colors.
Cheapest Skin of the Loayal is about 150c and I doubt I will survive with it.

2. Boots +1 — Starting from 3ex, finishing with 150ex and you need to find right colors.

These 2 are just impossible to buy for anyone, I just wonder how many exalted do you farm a day and how?

Without boosted Animated Guardian there is no sense even to try hi-end content, zombies are dying like flies.

3. Presence of Chayula — 5ex min


4. And I didn't mention Anima Stone + Might = 4-5 + 4 ex = 9ex

What "beginner" can afford it and after what amount of farming (with just 3 golems).

And I didn't mention "quality of life" things like 20 quality gems, flasks, harmonies.
8 harmonies * 30c = 240 fucking chaoses.

Even Rumi's Concoction with decent spell block chance costs around 50c.

You guys have printing duping machine or what? I think I'll swith to anything more viable.

The build itself is suitable for beginners: that is, it will allow you to sail right through the content to red maps on a very very low budget (less than an ex).

Once you hit high red maps/Guardians, yes you will need better gear. But you won't need all of the above immediately.

The gear listed above is the absolute maximum gear (well: maybe I would include a +1 curse corrupted Presence of Chayula). Likely you will have to settle for lesser gear for a substantial time:
1) A non-corrupted 6L Fire Mantle or even a 5L
2) The boots will come down in price, use an uncorrupted one for a long time
3) Presence of Chayula is nice, but an Eye of Chayula and some chaos res on your gear will work as well
4) Anima+Might+harmonies: yes you will need these eventually. 9-11ex is not that hard to farm.
5) 20 quality gems are cheap, if you buy them as Q16 or so, add prisms and level them yourself
6) Rumi's is another ex.
7) Empower level 4s are also expensive.

We are in the first week of the league. So yes, money is scarce and gear is expensive.

Prices for some gear are likely to drop as more and more stuff is found, people start on their 2nd / 3rd build etc.

And once you get into red maps, farming goes *way* faster than in all other content.

Just be glad you are not in standard: there the maximum would include legacy gear and mirrored gear as well, and you would be looking at 1000+ ex :)

Can someone expalain to me why are we using specters and is there any life based tree?

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Can this build do Hall of Grandmasters?

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Yes, i cleared it yesterday with :stronk:

Hall of Grandmasters can be done. I have run it myself for multiple of my friends in standard and I know build followers are running it already ;)

It needs bit luck to not get few specific builds in the Wings. There are 1-2 Energy shield based "Cast when damage taken" tanks that are impossible to do with minions as they attack and heal instantly when they are shot by Golems. If they appear in the map, its bad news for that run. However any Righteous Fire or Scorching Ray build can kill them for you if have a party member. Their skills don't hit and wont cause the CWDT to trigger making the tanks easy kills.

Best tactics is to place totem, start a wave and move 1 screen back. Summon Golems up if any of them die (Spell echo is super useful here as you get 2x Golems instantly). Don't rush to frontline as you may die much easier than Golems do. Ill try to record hall of gm run later.

lastly NEVER take Animate Guardian to Hall of Grandmasters, not on any level. It will die 100%

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I see people talking about Spectres, but this build doesn't use Spectres, does it?

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Considering how long you'll apparently be relying on spectres referring to it as a golem build seems a bit misleading

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Can someone expalain to me why are we using specters and is there any life based tree?

Hey :)

Specters are a way to reach high end maps while getting currency for Anima Stone, which is basically requirement for Golem build. Specters are early level summons and gear that boosts them costs next to nothing even on first day ot the league. They make leveling very safe and easy while keeping costs at minimum for early access to Anima Stone and Golems that way. "Flame Sentinel" Specters are really close to Flame Golems with their skills, so they simulate full 4x Golem party pretty well.

If you have enough currency to get Anima Stone early on, you can go full Golemancer straight at level 34 when you can equip level 1 gem.

There is no life based skill tree for this build. I tried to tinker with full life in beta, buy it wasn't worth it. You lose too many jewel and minion nodes while ending with too little life. Build can now reach 8000-8500 EHP (Life+ES) in league easy and it should be enough for all content with all extra defenses from the skills.

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in previous builds ive seen like 5 harmonys used with a might and a anima stone does that have any merit over using two rare jewels? recently swapped to the golems now and i couldnt really tell a diffrence betwen using 5 harmonys or 3

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Rare jewels with 15-16% minion damage roll give almost the same damage as harmonys if using only 1 Golem type. They can be used early on as harmony replacements, but later on Golems will need the 2% regeneration per Harmony to survive endgame boss damage.

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Still leveling so no money for 5L/6L Infernal Mantle, and with a few mana reduction nodes, I could also add Discipline, leaving no mana.
Need to experiment on how to trigger EE now: maybe CWDT/Ice Nova/Inc AOE?

I have also taken the Skittering Runes curse cluster (just above Scion life wheel) for another 20% curse effectiveness. Things are definitely slowing down now.

Cheapest way to apply EE I can possibly think of, is using level 1 "Freezing Pulse" or "Spark" selfcast with no additional support gems. Both have 4-5 mana cost and can be used to trigger EE on bosses reliably.

Boosting Temporal chains is best way to increase defenses. Each % closer to the cap gives more benefit. If you get "The Vertex" with 20-30% Temporal Chains curse effectiveness enhancement, you can get capped 75% TC without any curse nodes with adding level 4 "Enhance" to the vertex ;)

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The build itself is suitable for beginners: that is, it will allow you to sail right through the content to red maps on a very very low budget (less than an ex).

Once you hit high red maps/Guardians, yes you will need better gear. But you won't need all of the above immediately.

The gear listed above is the absolute maximum gear (well: maybe I would include a +1 curse corrupted Presence of Chayula). Likely you will have to settle for lesser gear for a substantial time:
1) A non-corrupted 6L Fire Mantle or even a 5L
2) The boots will come down in price, use an uncorrupted one for a long time
3) Presence of Chayula is nice, but an Eye of Chayula and some chaos res on your gear will work as well
4) Anima+Might+harmonies: yes you will need these eventually. 9-11ex is not that hard to farm.
5) 20 quality gems are cheap, if you buy them as Q16 or so, add prisms and level them yourself
6) Rumi's is another ex.
7) Empower level 4s are also expensive.

We are in the first week of the league. So yes, money is scarce and gear is expensive.

Prices for some gear are likely to drop as more and more stuff is found, people start on their 2nd / 3rd build etc.

And once you get into red maps, farming goes *way* faster than in all other content.

Just be glad you are not in standard: there the maximum would include legacy gear and mirrored gear as well, and you would be looking at 1000+ ex :)

Exactly this! :D

Prices are falling every day in league as more items are coming to market. The build is pretty safe with all the minions even in high level maps, so gearing for survival is no needed as strongly as with melee builds. Normal rare items can be used in most slots that have no beneficial item for minions while leveling.

Red maps are the real way to make currency. All mods are good to run, so no need to spam chaos to get right mods. Even Vaal orbs can be used on maps to get huge quantity bonuses with no risk.

Build can be min-maxed in standard with legacy gear after league with all the currency lying around after 3 month of grinding, so room for improvement can be also a thing to look for in future ;)