3.7 In-Depth Ice Golems Guide - Snowybois - On Hiatus for 3.8

How do you get enough accuracy without going to the minion circle near ancestral bond? phase acrobatics sounds nice but i cant find the points to do both

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shirodave wrote:

How do you get enough accuracy without going to the minion circle near ancestral bond? phase acrobatics sounds nice but i cant find the points to do both

Run a Precision Aura or a warbanner.


Vids of me in T16 as promised. Not running haste or cursing ele weakness in this one, i'm not in the best setup for clearing right now, Running temp chains i'm down a harmony while I play with our new toy. With ele weakness on blasphemy feels pretty good, without as you can see you finish about 1/2 the army mostly limited by your own and the minion movement speed now.


https://youtu.be/yF_PdUGQqJ4?t=321



Couple of notes. Ruthless is worthless this league, run maim or fortify. Minion Movement speed is actually best for clearing legion, feels freaking great on Legion with Empower4+minion damage + minion movement speed + multistrike + melee phys. Fuck Recoloring the Bow though, that's not gonna happen.





Okay so now for information on the new toy. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Glorious_Vanity
Glorious Vanity Timeless Jewel SACRIFICED IN THE NAME OF DORYANI. This jewel will convert all nearby nodes 'randomly' and convert all nearby keystones to Corrupted Soul "50% of non-chaos damage taken bypasses Energy Shield. Gain 20% of Max life as extra maximum ES"

This allows us to life stack, while essentially getting a free chayula's presence. The 'downside' of damage bypassing ES is an upside for us with our massive life regen. When utilized it turns a bunch of worthless int nodes into potentially good things like resists, aura effectiveness or curse effectiveness.

The notables/minor nodes are RANDOMIZED by the seed of the jewel. The number of souls sacrificed is the seed of the jewel. Ideal locations for us are Upper Right/Upper left, and if you're not necro aegis, then right side of Sion converting necro aegis.

If you are trying to hit 100, I strongly recommend a life stacking/mom build running one of these for Life/ES/Mana stacking.

I'm 93 in decent gear without discipline and i'm 4700hp/2367 ES. Add a mana shield on top of that and you're in money. The jewel can turn notables into really strong mana regen/max mana nodes to help as well. All around an amazing edition to the build's survivability.

Amazing tip! I dropped two mana nodes to grab the CI node and use the Jewel slot on the top right for the Glorious Vanity jewel.

1400 ES in two nodes is crazy good. Losing a socket does suck, but this is well worth it.

Does anyone know if breaking legion out of their shells counts as a 'kill' for the purposes of poacher's mark frenzy charges?

EDIT: Update it doesn't, but holy hell playing bow with poacher's mark feels so much better.

EDIT: Can I get someone who's playing charity to test Poacher's mark for me and report back if you feel like the golems are behaving differently? I'm wondering if mana starvation is why they don't always cyclone. This could be the piece missing for why they don't just spam it.

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Utopian238 wrote:

EDIT: Update it doesn't, but holy hell playing bow with poacher's mark feels so much better.

EDIT: Can I get someone who's playing charity to test Poacher's mark for me and report back if you feel like the golems are behaving differently? I'm wondering if mana starvation is why they don't always cyclone. This could be the piece missing for why they don't just spam it.

i do recall my occultist ice golem build from a few leagues back that had poachers mark+temp chains+vuln on blasphemy being a lot smoother for ice golem cycloning but its been a while so maybe its wishful thinking.
could slot a blood magic in the golem links and it should confirm/deny your suspicions as to mana problems. id test it out but at work right now lol. the only reason i stopped playing ice golems was because of their janky swapping between cyclone and ice spears, if this fixes it then poachers mark is by far bis skill moving foward

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Utopian238 wrote:

Does anyone know if breaking legion out of their shells counts as a 'kill' for the purposes of poacher's mark frenzy charges?

EDIT: Update it doesn't, but holy hell playing bow with poacher's mark feels so much better.

EDIT: Can I get someone who's playing charity to test Poacher's mark for me and report back if you feel like the golems are behaving differently? I'm wondering if mana starvation is why they don't always cyclone. This could be the piece missing for why they don't just spam it.

I tried out warlord's mark instead since it was easier to replace, and I honestly didn't see any changes. Are you sure this isn't just placebo? Could be that your build is smoother due to Frenzy charges on minion being the highest damage boosting buff minions can have.

Losing out on Vulnerability is also huge dps loss.

Btw, if I want to try the bow but want to remain having 1500+ mana unreserved for MoM, what would be a good chest option?

The Queen's Hunger with additional curse? I don't think I would have enough links with Kaom's Heart.

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tavi2530 wrote:

Btw, if I want to try the bow but want to remain having 1500+ mana unreserved for MoM, what would be a good chest option?

The Queen's Hunger with additional curse? I don't think I would have enough links with Kaom's Heart.

Queen's Hunger and Belly are both great options. Just find the most defensive thing you can and run that.

Other option is to craft a shaper chest with additional 10% mana taken before life, life/mana increases.

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I tried out warlord's mark instead since it was easier to replace, and I honestly didn't see any changes. Are you sure this isn't just placebo? Could be that your build is smoother due to Frenzy charges on minion being the highest damage boosting buff minions can have.

Losing out on Vulnerability is also huge dps loss.

Could be placebo yeah because the addition of frenzy charges is ~40% more damage gained for bow build in addition to the golems just moving faster. My bossing still feels fine so I want to see what other people say first before i update the guide. I ran 10 minotaur's last night to compare and it improves my clearspeed tremendously. I'm blasphemy poacher's mark so that every monster dies while cursed and gets the most chance to gain the frenzy charge.

Seems like Beacon of Ruin is a waste on this build. Worth grabbing small resist node instead?

Seems like the glorious vanity jewel doesn't let you stack 2 nodes of Corrupted soul, is that correct? So you just need to grab 1 keystone.

Also anyone know roughly how much it would cost to craft the bow we need?