new elementalist and golems

"

Terspet wrote:

well that kinda sucks, that puts down golems down even further

"

Nibelton wrote:

golem elementals were heavily nerfed.
why the F you need golem immortality on it ?? your golems DONT DIE anyway,they can literally tank A8
removing 120% damage =! resurrection

I see.

"

Zboublemeteor wrote:

I planned a golementalist divine ire stormfire ignite build. I tought it was hipster enought to not get touched but man was i wrong...

double 20% damage per golem nerf, more ignites damage only from fire hits...

back to the drawing board again i guess.

If you stack harmony jewels, it's not that bad. But for ignite, I would skip golems and take the lightning/aegis/exposure nodes instead.

I think its dumb. They should have moved golems to necromancer and greatly overhauled elementalist into something truly elemental focused.

Also I am sad that 25% reduced mana reservation for heralds were removed, this allowed to stack vitality aura and skitterbots/low cost aura on top of 4 heralds. Now you won't have enough mana for it.
This also feels like a nerf.
So all in all - elementalist herald/elemnts builds was nerfed as well. Back to assassin with heralds.

RIP elemntalist I guess, sad.

Lost 20% on one ascendancy node, gained 5% on the other - per summoned golem.
Full Primordial Jewel setup is 6 golems. So we lose 90% increased damage.
It's not a terrible nerf to golems. Let's wait and see what they do to the actual Carrion golem skill gem in the patch notes.
Also with the rest of the rework to Elementalist, we can spec to be effectively our own Skitterbots if we were to use cyclone shocking/chilling on all hits. Or we can gain a ~2k hp shield (Primal Aegis) Don't know if this means it's for all dmg types except chaos or maybe even including chaos.
All in all. Golem Elementalist is still in a good spot. For now xD

Nevermind, I read it wrong :(

"

ShortSnex wrote:

Nevermind, I read it wrong :(

Ya you did!

"

M_atrix wrote:

For pure Golem builds - auto re-summon is just absolutely unnecessary. The only time my Golems actually died this league was in Hall of Grandmasters, they can tank everything else with no sweat, so having this instead of "20% increased Golem damage per Summoned Golem" is absolutely straight up BIG nerf...

Sad.

This! And the auto re-summon for an elementalist is absolutely stupid, because it's completely unnecessary. Anyone taking these node is going to be focusing on golems, and as such, the golems are not going to die.

It's all the other classes that choose to use a one-off golem in there build that needs an auto re-summon node, because these are the golems that are more often dead than alive.

And with the lost 120% Golem damage (at 6 golems), elementalist just became worse at running golems than a necromancer, although elementalist was probably already worse.

"

Galtrovan wrote:

This! And the auto re-summon for an elementalist is absolutely stupid, because it's completely unnecessary. Anyone taking these node is going to be focusing on golems, and as such, the golems are not going to die.

as someone who has done multiple builds that use the golems for the buffs(getting 4x golems, stone, chaos, lightning/ice/fire(pick 2)), the auto resummon will be great for them, they die somewhat frequently. aka not everybody will be taking them just for a golem build).

Elementalist changes are making me lean towards a caster elementalist, both golem nodes, bastion of elements and either exposure or shock node.


the main thing that really got nerfed was pure golem builds.

I dislike that heart of destruction can only get 50% uptime.

I know. Friggin sucks :-(