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

I didn’t understand why to use spell echo and Pledge of Hands
does it work together?

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gnus2 escribió:

I didn’t understand why to use spell echo and Pledge of Hands
does it work together?

Yes, it does. PoH has "Greater Spell Echo" :-)

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Hey Mika,

More or less finished with gearing up my golemancer.



I'm quite enjoying having the Carnage Chieftains / Host chieftains as spectres so I think I will be keeping them rather than going for TV's. This makes getting a helmet MUCH cheaper since a +2/3 with Minion Life is all I really need. Hopefully then with a lvl 3 empower (once they get cheap) will see me have 4 spectres total - 2 of each.

Can pretty much start putting all my currency towards my other builds I want to try this league. Meanwhile running some MF golemancer in mid tier maps feels pretty profitable and remains nice and relaxing! Still pretty much at 8k EHP and with purely defensive flasks it's fairly tanky even considering the MF nature. I would love to get some more chaos res - hopefully a new helmet at some point can fit a bit on. The only slight issue is that the build feels kinda slow. Not being able to fit in phase run and having boots with only 10% MS I rely on my flamedash quite a bit. Still, it's not too bad and I'm enjoying mapping with it quite a lot.

Hope you are well Mika and are enjoying the Metamorph league.

Hi Mika, I have a question: before 3.9 I had 4 spectre and 4 golem, now I have only 3 spectre and 4 golem. Why 1 spectre is lost?
I have the same gear and the same tree.

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DrHarvey12 escribió:

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mika2salo escribió:

Is leveling using non-minions skills easier than using Zombies, Skeletons and SRS?

Hey Mika,

Ummm.....good question. I've not tried leveling as minions in ages. I think last time I tried (probably 18+ months ago) SRS felt pretty bad with no minion speed / duration and my zombies kept dying. It felt pretty horrible. I'm sure now I understand minion builds better and would make a better tree they might feel quite a bit better.

I usually do a few practice runs in SSF to get ready for a new league so I will have a zero gear minion run or two and see how they feel.

Leveling with spells always tends to feel pretty good and usually you have enough damage with a clear / ST setup that very little is an issue in the campaign. I suppose its what I am most used to so I feel comfortable with it. I tried leveling a bow scion about a year ago at league start and after 2 weeks eventually getting to Act 7 my progress ground to a halt. I was probably closer to quitting the game than at any other point. I looked around in desperation and stumbled on a 6 hour YT vid of RaizQT leveling as ED + Cont. I followed that and was in maps in 2 days. I kinda vowed at that point to always level as spells!! Probably about time to try a few other things out though!

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Hey Mika,

More or less finished with gearing up my golemancer.

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I'm quite enjoying having the Carnage Chieftains / Host chieftains as spectres so I think I will be keeping them rather than going for TV's. This makes getting a helmet MUCH cheaper since a +2/3 with Minion Life is all I really need. Hopefully then with a lvl 3 empower (once they get cheap) will see me have 4 spectres total - 2 of each.

Can pretty much start putting all my currency towards my other builds I want to try this league. Meanwhile running some MF golemancer in mid tier maps feels pretty profitable and remains nice and relaxing! Still pretty much at 8k EHP and with purely defensive flasks it's fairly tanky even considering the MF nature. I would love to get some more chaos res - hopefully a new helmet at some point can fit a bit on. The only slight issue is that the build feels kinda slow. Not being able to fit in phase run and having boots with only 10% MS I rely on my flamedash quite a bit. Still, it's not too bad and I'm enjoying mapping with it quite a lot.

Hope you are well Mika and are enjoying the Metamorph league.

Hey :)

I will propably try leveling early levels with spell like arc next league just to see how it works. U used to level with totems years ago, but you get dual totem rougly same point as Specters and Golems anyway.

Minions are quite fun to level if you trade for some HP regen item early on and take minion defense nodes first. Zombies stop dying in act 2 totally.

I guess I could also try the chieftains this league. Using elementalist means that Specs are weaker anyway, and I can't buy Primordial Chain for a while anyway as prices are high.

Thanks for sharing your chars progress! It's nice to see that Golems still work well in MF build and you can still have solid defenses. I hope you will get enough drops to try all planned build out this league ^^

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I didn’t understand why to use spell echo and Pledge of Hands
does it work together?

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Yes, it does. PoH has "Greater Spell Echo" :-)

Hello :)

Yep, greater echo stacks with echo. Golems will cast 4x waves or orbs per charge they spend. This results in massive spam na tons of overlapping damage in boss fights.

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Hi Mika, I have a question: before 3.9 I had 4 spectre and 4 golem, now I have only 3 spectre and 4 golem. Why 1 spectre is lost?
I have the same gear and the same tree.

Hi :)

GGG increased level of raise spec gem that you need for 4th Specter. Earlier it was lvl 21, but now it's lvl 25. This is doable if you get for example.
- 21/20 gem
- +2 from unnatural strength
- +1 from +1 level to spec gem rare boots
- +1-+3 to minion level in helmet

You can replace minion life with + level to minion level in helmetm, so you don't technically need more mods in the helmet.

Hello

Why do you use Elemental Equilibrium ? As much as i can see fire damage is the only damage type in use aside from Winter Orb. And Winter Orb does not hit fast / more mobs as the golems / Spectres. So iam not sure why it is in use - iam missing something ?

Thanks a lot - awesome build :)

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ondoki escribió:

Hello

Why do you use Elemental Equilibrium ? As much as i can see fire damage is the only damage type in use aside from Winter Orb. And Winter Orb does not hit fast / more mobs as the golems / Spectres. So iam not sure why it is in use - iam missing something ?

Thanks a lot - awesome build :)

I believe minion damage does not trigger EE so it's only based on what damage type you deal yourself. I agree its a bit clunky but it's mostly useful for bosses anyways, and it will last 5 sec per apply. You can use any skill that deals lightning or cold damage though and use cast on hit/cast while channel and get the same result. I see some people on here using Arc instead.

Ohh..

I did have a look again and yes the description of EE says "Enemies you hit with.."

So yes this does make sense, missed that detail :)

Thanks a lot.

Should I get a primordial might for aggressive golems? The POB doesn't seem to have one unless I'm missing something.