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

They really hit my girl hard(Occ). Looks like I'll be going Necro this league.

Speaking of this league, was supposed to be finished moving on the 8th which is pretty close to league start. Military movers are the worst and looks like it will be longer than they said, so basically sitting in an empty apartment with an air mattress and food only till they can ship my car coast to coast.

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A bit gutted about the Rathpith wording change. That sorta kills my hype for trying to go with really DPS focused golems for this league :(

I mean, it was going to be broken for flame golems so probably good in the long term. They may have had to nerf flame golems if it was kept in the game.

Although a bit of a pity as I just bought a helm with minion damage / minion life / conc effect in Std ready to try it out. Oh well, guess I will see if I can sell it again now! Hopefully some build will find it useful!

Hello :)

Was starting to get hyped for it myself also. After all this was foreseeable and I'm bit relieved that it didn't happen and GGG would be nerfing minions to the ground next league.

Rathpith was removed from build uniques, but luckily rare shaper shields do even better job at adding defense.

Your helmet could work fine with Solar Guards as they benefit from conc effect?

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They really hit my girl hard(Occ). Looks like I'll be going Necro this league.

Speaking of this league, was supposed to be finished moving on the 8th which is pretty close to league start. Military movers are the worst and looks like it will be longer than they said, so basically sitting in an empty apartment with an air mattress and food only till they can ship my car coast to coast.

Hi :)

Yep, occultist took some serious nerfs. I upgraded the tree but I'm not sure I can advice going for it over Necro or Elementalist anymore. I guess GGG will balance the nerfs after 1-2 league, but for the moment it will remain only for most hardcore Occultist fans.

I hope they didn't ship your PC already? If you can get laptop or someones PC for the weekend, time can go pretty fast while running acts. I hope they will move you faster and that you have nice home ready at the start of the week!

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3.7.0 PATCH NOTES

NECROMANCER
- Some ES lost from witch nodes
- Changed "Rathpith" -shield to rare shield

ELEMENTALIST
- Some ES lost from witch nodes

OCCULTIST (retired at the moment)
- Lost 30% regen to 10%
- Lost 150 flat ES
- Lost Wicked Ward (non-stop ES Regen)
- Some ES lost from witch nodes
- ✟ R.i.p Occultist ✟

ICE GOLEMS
- Replaced Haste with maximized Temporal Chains (HUGE defense boost against trash mobs)

LEVELING
- Added "Purifying Flame" and "Holy Flame Totem" as early leveling skills. Both create "Consecrated Ground", which adds minions HP regen before Necromantic Aegis. This upgrade should make leveling first 30 levels much more enjoyable are zombies are practically immortal with it.
- Took "Grave Intentions" for +2 extra Zombies while leveling. With early HP regen for Zombies, they are very tanky and deal good damage.

MISC
- Flame Golems projectiles don't cause FPS drops anymore. They are smaller and more round than before. It's easier to see where and what they are shooting now.

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mika2salo schrieb:

Your helmet could work fine with Solar Guards as they benefit from conc effect?

Actually, that's not a bad idea. If it doesn't sell I'll maybe try that at some point. Thx :)

Found my starter with your build! Great guide! Still not sure if I want to go Necro or maybe Elementalist.

So here we go! L SC, with the goal to reach 100 for the first time with your build. I took 2 weeks of work, just to get a good "start"! :)

Is it possible for you to make a PoB with the lvling trees inside? I would love to see an updated tree with the mentioned +zombie nodes. :) A PoB with everything you need, from 30-123 points! :)

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TheSunliight schrieb:

Found my starter with your build! Great guide! Still not sure if I want to go Necro or maybe Elementalist.

So here we go! L SC, with the goal to reach 100 for the first time with your build. I took 2 weeks of work, just to get a good "start"! :)

Is it possible for you to make a PoB with the lvling trees inside? I would love to see an updated tree with the mentioned +zombie nodes. :) A PoB with everything you need, from 30-123 points! :)

Hello :)

Thanks! Guide took quite a while to write, but it should have about everything to really master the build now.

My recommendation is always to start as Necro as it's dirt cheap to level using Specters and Zombies. You can later swap to Elementalist if you want for few dozen regrets as the skill tree and most it items are identical between variants.

Level 100 is definitely reachable, but needs lot of time and some planning in most times. "Timmeh519" reached lvl 100 twice, but was playing most of the day for multiple weeks.

After level 95+ I recommend :
1) Hosting t12+ rare map parties (parties clear faster and are safer)
2) Joining rotations (6 players each run expensive EXP gain map in their turn)
3) Buying high EXP maps with low risk (Poorjoy's Asylum, etc)

I will be keeping place open for you in the hall of the fame ;)

If you want mapping company to lvl 100, there's room in Golemancer guild if your interested in joining.

I tried to tweak PoB to include all-in-one pack, but unfortunately I can't setup different items or links per "tree". Different leveling trees could work, I will have to see if it's possible to do it. I will add online trees for leveling part of the guide later when Poe Buddy gets updated to 3.7.0. It makes checking leveling trees easier. Or you can just import PoBs per step and save them in your Pob for offline use.

Zombie nodes are added in leveling part of the guide in LEVELING -> LEVELING SKILL TREE AND GEAR

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UPDATE

PS. I forgot to upgrade leveling PoBs. They are upgraded now and I will be adding online trees tomorrow when Poe Buddy updates. Thanks the notice!

Guess who dosen't need to read the patch note ?

Golemancers... it's a good thing, but it's kinda sad at the same time... T_T

Hello,

I've never played a summoner and i wanna try it in the legion. I have a couple of questions:

1) How expensive is this build? Is ~15 ex enough for killing shaper at least?
2) How fast is it in a map clearing?

Thx in advance.

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kami_koi schrieb:

Guess who dosen't need to read the patch note ?

Golemancers... it's a good thing, but it's kinda sad at the same time... T_T

Hello :)

Yep, I have been able to dodge nerfs for multiple leagues so far. I think that one of the reasons is that the build is collection of synergies and balanced interactions rather than riding on one apparently OP mechanic.

I have intentionally chosen only safe and already balanced skills / items to avoid nerfs in the future. This makes builds power pretty linear, but also extremely safe for players that want to enjoy same build from league to league(me especially ^^). It would feel very bad to for example increase DPS by 200% for league or two, and then report that it's being taken away when it gets eventually nerfed.

I hope the build will remain playable for years to come ^^

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Hello,

I've never played a summoner and i wanna try it in the legion. I have a couple of questions:

1) How expensive is this build? Is ~15 ex enough for killing shaper at least?
2) How fast is it in a map clearing?

Thx in advance.

Hey :)

1)
Build can kill shaper for much less than 15 ex. Quick estimate of prices at early-mid league could go like :
- Helmet = 30c (Pseudo 6-link with decent ES)
- Armor 2r2g2b = 20c, 2r1g3b = 3-4 ex
- All jewels = 1-1,5 ex
- Gloves = 20c
- Boots = 20c-1ex
- Amulet = 2-3 ex
- Rings = 20c each
- Clayshaper + Shield = 2c - 1ex if good rare ES shield
- Empower 3 + Enhance 3 = 30c

There estimates are for medium tier items, that you can already do all guardians with. Shaper is not much harder if you have some experience kiting the big attacks. Prices increase depending on how much EHP (HP + ES) buffer you want to have before the fight.

For Uber Elder grinding you need better gear and prices can start to be closer to 15 ex, but with that you are getting top tier items that will make you really safe.

You can easily farm t13+ maps with just Specters and zombies, which will cost about 1 ex for whole package if you want to get good EHP with great DPS.

2)
Clear speed is very good. Flame Golems are projectile based and have AOE damage. They can carpet bomb large area and their orbs will overlap and deal heavy damage over whole area. High level Golems can 1-2 shot whole packs in t16 maps.

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UPDATE

Online skill-trees are now up. Poe Buddy has not updated yet, so I had to make only skill-trees with Poe Planner for now. I will upgrade online trees to Poe Buddy later when it updates.

Hi

Thank you for your very detailed information.
I am very new to POE, started a week ago as a necromancer summoning all of minions except golems.
Do you think this build can be good for very beginner like me?
I have been told that it would cost a lot for the golemancer so that I was wondering if I should start with another build and get back to this build once I save some currency.
Any advice for this?
Thank you in advance

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Hy0410064 schrieb:

Hi

Thank you for your very detailed information.
I am very new to POE, started a week ago as a necromancer summoning all of minions except golems.
Do you think this build can be good for very beginner like me?
I have been told that it would cost a lot for the golemancer so that I was wondering if I should start with another build and get back to this build once I save some currency.
Any advice for this?
Thank you in advance

Hello and welcome to Poe :)

This build is basically aimed to teach whole Summoner / Golemancer package for new players while you level and try the skills in action. I have everything explained in the guide, but it can take some time to read thoroughly as it's quite long. Once you reach higher levels, you will have enough knowledge to start tweaking the build for your own liking.

Build starts as basic Necromancer (Specters + Zombies), which is very old build type and has lot of cheap unique items to support leveling. You can reach and farm t13+ maps for less than half exalt as damage scales with Specters monster level rather than gear or gem level. Once you have enough currency, you can buy more expensive Golem jewels and transition to Golem / Specter hybrid, or just plain Golems if you chose to. leveling section is wrote to get players to high tier maps for as cheap as possible while keeping up good damage and safe EHP (HP + ES).

Some players start with faster builds and grind currency to get Golems jewels first. I myself like to start as Necromancer as it suits my play-style / speed, and it feels less strange to switch from minions to other minions than for example from Arc totems to minions.

You can always post in thread if you get questions as it's pretty enjoyable to teach new players tricks of Poe. There is also my Golemancer guild that you can join. Golemancer players help each other there and it's a channel to chat about Golems / etc.