3.11 | Carry Me Golems | Carrion/Stone Golem Elementalist | Very Tanky and High DPS summoner

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Nemecseck wrote:

for soul catcher more charge is better?

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grimjack68 wrote:

I was running a carnage chieftain, a host chieftain, they of tul, and arena master.

Carnage and host boost DPS. So does the Arena Master. They of tul is an AOE defense buff.

I get zombies killed every so often, spectres very occasionally, and the AG "never" - actually twice last league. Then I bought a spare set of gear for when I got him killed the 3rd time, and he never died again. :) My biggest source of losing spectres was running the lab, but for a totally silly reason - I'd enchant my helm, which unsummons all critters, and forget to re-summon everything before I ported out of the end room. Then I'd have to beg in global 820 for They of Tul and Arena Master spectre corpses again. Eventually I leveled a spectre bank.

Blood magic is because the carnage and host chieftains have a very small mana pool, so they don't cast their buffs that often. Switching them to blood magic means they cast far more often, and their buffs are almost always active.

Kingmaker will help both offensively and defensively. Fortify gives you 20% less damage taken from hits, which is nice! Plus culling strike, which is also nice. And this applies to both you and your minions - EXCEPT the AG himself.

Testing the AG is tricky - the toughest content I ran into for minions was Atziri, Hall of the Grandmasters, and sometimes Sims, especially if both bosses show up at the same time. The AG was fine in the Sim, but I'd lose zombies and spectres. HOTGM destroys all my minions. I could still clear it... eventually... but I did a LOT of resummoning, and ran it without the AG after he died the first time. Atziri was a pain in the rump as well. I just unsummon the AG for risky tasks, I'd rather take the DPS hit than have to source another set of AG gear.

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jsuslak313 wrote:

@shafirion: without blood magic, host and carnage chieftains are utterly useless. The QoL from having them live longer is not real QoL...you just have to grab some more minion life nodes if you want that.

Guys I have a question: never made the base Stone Golem build (always went straight to carrion). Is there a point where you can have too many Harmony jewels? Right now I'm at 7 harmony and 2 eminence but I'm approaching another large cluster with 2 more slots. Trying to decide if I should get two harmonies or if the right call is harmony / eminence at this point. One slot might go to a corrupted blood jewel but then I guess the other would have to be harmony at that point?

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Nemecseck wrote:

Primordial bond in better then call of the slaughter for 3d notable?

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grimjack68 wrote:

and your golem buffs are already capped.

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Viktranka wrote:

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grimjack68 wrote:

and your golem buffs are already capped.

How much is the cap on golem buff effectiveness (life regen / phys reduction)?