[3.29 | POE 1] Flame Golem of Hordes League Starter - Curse of the Allflame *Updated POB*

ACT 1 Choose either Rolling Magma or Summon Raging Spirits to level through Act 1 - After the quest "Breaking some Eggs", pick up Flame Wall and Frostblink - Pick up Raise Zombies (these will need constant resummons early on as they are squishy) - Fit Clarity and Vitality after the Brutus fight - After finishing 'The Sirens Cadence' quest, right before fighting Merveil (Act 1 final boss), you can pick up Absolution. **NOTE**Do vaal side areas. Pick up vaal skeletons and vaal absolution if you can. These are both incredibly powerful for leveling through the campaign. ACT 2 - Grab Desecrate, don't level past 1, just pocket this gem for now. We will use later. - Grab Skitterbots. If you don't have the mana, turn off vitality and replace it with skitterbots for now. - After completing 'Sharp and Cruel' grab faster casting and buy controlled destruction. Replace both minion damage and lightning damage. Add minion damage back once you have a 4-link. - Also pick up elemeental focus and concentrated effect to level in offhand. - Pick up minion life for your zombies **NOTE** Lots of gems use strength/dex now, so be sure to pay attention to jewelery items to find stat implicits to make up for these ACT 3 - 'Lost in Love' gives us our curse gems, Elemental Weakness and Flammability. You can equip Elemental Weakness to use while you have Absolution. Flammability for Flame Golems and both when you have Whispers of Doom key node. - Do the library quest to help Siosa. Pick up feeding frenzy and link this to zombies. Pick up convocation as well so we can automate this later. ACT 4 - Complete 'Open the Gate' - Turn in and grab Stone Golem. You can now also pick up flame, chaos, lightning and ice for later use. - We will also respec some points here. You should have enough gold to do so. Put 3 points from the starting point in the tree, up the left side (the intelligence nodes) and then remove the 4 spell damage nodes next to them. - The rest of this guide is expecting you to farm for Flame Golem of Hordes, anything else is a different build for the most part. **NOTE** The Clayshaper mace requires high strength, watch for heavy belts or anything that gets you a lot of strength. Look for nodes on tree if you have to to gain the strength needed for these maces. ACT 5+ - This is where we start leveling gems in our secondary set, focus on just leveling and getting through the rest of the campaign, and saving up for our first goals. - If you haven't received a second Clayshaper or a Primordial Chain yet, focus on trying to get these, as they will make the campaign much faster. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is where we have to choose how to level the rest of the game. You can do one of the following: 1 - You can level all the way to maps, including into yellow and even higher while you get the bulk of the golem gear together by using Absolution. Vaal Absolution is highly recommended. This is a different build, however, and there are build guides available out there for this. 2 - If you cannot afford the gear for Flame Golems (Primordial Chain and 2 Clayshapers) or do not have the patience to farm the Flame Golem of Hordes gem, then you can level by using zombies + carrion golems. Follow the guide the same exact way, but instead of ONLY having Flame Golems, you can have other other minions. This is how carrion golems work, by buffing other minions damage. 3 - If you have the time/patience/currency to purchase the golem gem and at least the amulet, you can level the rest of the way with Flame Golem of Hordes. This is how the build guide functions the rest of the way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ END OF CAMPAIGN // GOALS // MAPPING Here is where we start dealing with priorities. - First off, if not already done, get those resistances capped through all of our rare gear, crafting, gambling with Faustus or Rog crafting. - Prioritize leveling and clearing our maps while saving for upgrades, especially our main uniques. - The unique priority list is as follows. This is in no particular order, however The Dark Monarch is one of the biggest increases as it doubles our minion count. The Dark Monarch Primordial Jewels (Anima Stone, Primordial Harmony, Primordial Might (x1)) Darkness Enthroned (highest roll you can afford) Pledge of Hands (this can be a final item as it will start to change our priorities on other gear) - The Map section of items shows rares that have no stats or resistances. Get what you can on anything since this is flexible. In the configuration window, remove the lines adding resist and attributes to better calculate what you are doing to the build.