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

Hi,

How superior Bone offering is compared to Spirit offering?

I am new to the game and not really understand the blocking mechanic. Spirit offering showed me the energy shield "healing" effect which makes me want to use it more.

Is it okay if I would like to use spirit offering for defence? If yes, do I need to change any thing if I already followed the necromancer + shield blocking version of mika2salo.

Many thanks.

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Tuan173 escreveu:

Hi,

How superior Bone offering is compared to Spirit offering?

I am new to the game and not really understand the blocking mechanic. Spirit offering showed me the energy shield "healing" effect which makes me want to use it more.

Is it okay if I would like to use spirit offering for defence? If yes, do I need to change any thing if I already followed the necromancer + shield blocking version of mika2salo.

Many thanks.

Hello :)

Sorry for late answer but had some irl happenings.

Blocking works in two ways :

- Block chance

Gives you chance to block attacks. This is easy to raise and most shields give you about 25% base chance to block. About 72% block is max without legacy gear.

- Spell block chance

Gives chance to block spells. This is harder to raise, but can reach high numbers when using Bone Offering and Rumis flask. About 51% spell block is max without using legacy gear.

Block chance gives high protection against worst enemy of the build, physical damage.

Spirit offering gives some ES when using it, but I would rather go got Essence Gluton which is synergic with using Bone Offering links. If you have level 21 Specter gem or have +1 Spectre level boots (lvl 21 gives 3rd Specter), you can potentially drop Unnatural Strength for Essence Gluton. This would drop you DPS, but increase defenses so it's a trade-off.

Hey there,

I played a Golemancer (Elementalist) a few leagues ago and want to give it a shoot now again, but I've two questions:

1. Which Ascendancy can you suggest to a "lazy" player?
2. Could Elementalist work in SSF (without PoH and Shavs) or is Necro better for SSF?

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coryu escreveu:

Hey there,

I played a Golemancer (Elementalist) a few leagues ago and want to give it a shoot now again, but I've two questions:

1. Which Ascendancy can you suggest to a "lazy" player?
2. Could Elementalist work in SSF (without PoH and Shavs) or is Necro better for SSF?

Hello :)

Both default Necro and Elementalist using Pledge are pretty relaxed builds to play. Both have about 2x buttons to press while minions do all the killing for you. Pledge is maybe even more relaxed as your immune to almost all status effects, so you don't even need to press flasks that often.

I would start with Necro as getting gear for it should be much easier in SSF. Elementalist relies heavily in Pledge for the damage, so mixing Specs or zombies with Golems would result in much lower DPS than just going for plain Necro.

If you are lucky and hit Pledge, I can highly recommend the Elementalist as it has very high DPS with good survival.

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UPDATE

I have just released my first crafting video in my crafting series. It focuses on items that my build is using, but other builds can use as well. First item craft is about Crystal Belt, which are one of core items for the build and extremely cheap to self craft.

Poe Crafting 101 - Crystal Belts

https://youtu.be/_5EWLMGvYh8

All feedback is welcome as this is my first voice recording and was taken in one go, so there could be lot of room for improvement in the future.

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mika2salo escreveu:

Pledge is maybe even more relaxed as your immune to almost all status effects, so you don't even need to press flasks that often.

I guess you wanted to write Elementalist instead of Pledge :-D

So without PoH -> Necro, but if I play non-SSF or find one in SSF, then I should go for Elementalist with Pledge?

Thanks for this build!

I managed to beat uber elder for the first time (took 7 sets and the successful attempt took 4 portals). I'm also at my current highest level (lvl94) the highest I've ever been was level 91.

I somehow managed to amass 10ish exalts and was wondering what you would suggest going for next.

Buying a level 4 empower?
Buying a 21/20 animate guardian and/or spectre?
Converting to an elemetalist build and get a 6 link pledge?
Getting a watchers eye or gambling with one of the timeless jewels?
General update of gear?

Hi,
I really enjoy this build! So thanks for that!

However I got a new problem with my spectres.

I switched to the vanguards a few weeks back and they worked like charm. Placing totems burning every boos... But today I realised that they stopped.
They just approach in meele, but they do not place any totems any more.
I logout and loged in again, I recasted all of them in the hideout, but still..

Now I'm kind of confused...These are the correct vanguards right?


I'm not sure about the time point they stopped working. A few days back I finished uberlab and finally switched to bone barrier and the +2 minion level node.

Is there anything I missed?

Cheers

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Bio_light escreveu:

I'm not sure about the time point they stopped working. A few days back I finished uberlab...

Is your spectre gem in your helmet? Did you by any chance enchant the helmet after uberlab? IIRC enchanting the helmet will remove your spectres. Just raise some new TVs to be sure.

Hi,
thanks for the answer.
Sure I enchanted the helmet and after that recalled all the spectres.
Didn't changed...

I now got back to Act6 and took some "fresh" guards. They work like charm. Looking closely on them now and on the pic from this morning it seams that for some reasons I only had warriors. Don't know how that happend...

Nevertheless it's working now. :)

cheers

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I guess you wanted to write Elementalist instead of Pledge :-D

So without PoH -> Necro, but if I play non-SSF or find one in SSF, then I should go for Elementalist with Pledge?

Hello :)

Well, Elementalist is pretty much same as Pledge at this point so maybe i had Freudian slip ^^

Yep, if you can find Pledge I would try Elementalist in SSF as getting Golem items should be easier than getting the actual Pledge.

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Thanks for this build!

I managed to beat uber elder for the first time (took 7 sets and the successful attempt took 4 portals). I'm also at my current highest level (lvl94) the highest I've ever been was level 91.

I somehow managed to amass 10ish exalts and was wondering what you would suggest going for next.

Buying a level 4 empower?
Buying a 21/20 animate guardian and/or spectre?
Converting to an elemetalist build and get a 6 link pledge?
Getting a watchers eye or gambling with one of the timeless jewels?
General update of gear?

Hey and thanks for support ^^

Gz on Uber Elder kill! \o/

It requires pretty good knowledge about boss to be able to do UE and feels great to finally be able to bear it.

Upgrading depends totally on how you feel aboout the game atm. If you like necro setup and want to upgrade it, Raise Spec 21/20 is solid choice followed by emp 4 on Flame Golems. I feel that Timeless jewel has more impact for less price if you get lucky. 160-240% increased minion damage is much more noticably than 3x great lines defensive Watchers eye.

If you feel that you want change, you can easily swap to Elementalist for much less that your budget. You need 6-l Pledge and 6 socket Shavs and can add as much pieces after that as you want to. Whole package should be much less than 10 ex if you drop +1 curse ammy.

Pledge has even more damage and very nice defenses. You trade some amount of total defense for much more DPS, but you also gain immunities which are nice as you don't have to worry about flasks after that.

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Hi,
I really enjoy this build! So thanks for that!

However I got a new problem with my spectres.

I switched to the vanguards a few weeks back and they worked like charm. Placing totems burning every boos... But today I realised that they stopped.
They just approach in meele, but they do not place any totems any more.
I logout and loged in again, I recasted all of them in the hideout, but still..

Now I'm kind of confused...These are the correct vanguards right?

I'm not sure about the time point they stopped working. A few days back I finished uberlab and finally switched to bone barrier and the +2 minion level node.

Is there anything I missed?

Cheers

"

Is your spectre gem in your helmet? Did you by any chance enchant the helmet after uberlab? IIRC enchanting the helmet will remove your spectres. Just raise some new TVs to be sure.

"

Hi,
thanks for the answer.
Sure I enchanted the helmet and after that recalled all the spectres.
Didn't changed...

I now got back to Act6 and took some "fresh" guards. They work like charm. Looking closely on them now and on the pic from this morning it seams that for some reasons I only had warriors. Don't know how that happend...

Nevertheless it's working now. :)

cheers

Hi :)

Glad that it got resolved fast! I also guess that you had wrong Vanguards.