Frost Nova Golementalist

Golem builds have always been solid, as they have survivability, utility, and offensive ability. Among the best ones is the Frost Nova Golementalist. It’s got everything a good, reliable golem build should have—and sometimes even more!

Passive Skill Tree:

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Skill Gem Setup:

• Core Skill (on staff): Ice Nova with Energy Leech, Spell Echo, Arcane Surge, Hypothermia, and Faster Casting support gems
• Golems (on body): Summon Flame Golem, Summon Stone Golem, Summon Lightning Golem, Summon Chaos Golem, Summon Ice Golem, and Meat Shield Support
• Aura and Utility: Zealotry, Herald of Ice, Summon Skitterbots, level 3 Enlighten
• CWDT: level 12 Cast When Damage Taken with level 10 Immortal Call, Blood Rage, Flame Dash/Smoke Mine
• Ring Socket: Frost Bomb

Gear:

• Weapon: Pledge of Hands (Unique) for Spell Echo on socketed gems, and increased chance to block, spell damage, and mana.
• Helm: any Rare helm with bonuses to life, energy shield, and resistances.
• Body:
  • Loreweave (Unique) for six sockets, increased attributes, energy shield, life, resistances, mana, elemental damage, and rarity of items found
    Carcass Jack (Unique) for increased AOE and AOE damage
  • Level 85 multimodded level 85 Shaped Vaal Regalia with bonuses to critical strike chance, gain X% maximum life as maximum energy shield
• Gloves: Kalisa’s Grace (Unique) for level 18 Faster Casting and bonuses Intelligence, energy shield, life, and critical strike chance after spending 800 total mana
• Boots: any Rare boots with bonuses to movement speed, life, resistances, and energy shield
• Belt: any Stygian Vise with bonuses to life, resistances, and energy shield
• Jewels:
  • 1 Frozen Trail (Unique) for extra Frostbolt projectiles and bonus projection speed
  • 1 Anima Stone (Unique) for +1 maximum number of golems, and another +1 if you have 3 primordial items socketed or equipped
  • 3 Primordial Eminence (Unique) for golem bonus attack and cast speed, buff effects, and +800-1000 armor; counts as primordial
  • 1 Glorious Vanity
• Accessories:
  • The Pandemonious (Unique Amulet) increased dexterity, cold damage, cold resistance, blind and 1 second chill on enemies hit, 20% cold resistance penetration on child enemies
  • Circles of Fear (Unique Ring) for bonus mana regen, dexterity, cold damage and resistance, buff effect, extra cold damage during Herald of Ice duration, and increased Herald of Ice buff effect.
  • Any Rare ring with bonuses to life, cast speed, cold damage, and resistances.
• Flasks:
  • Life Flask With Bleed Immunity/Removal
  • Enduring Mana Flask
  • Alchemists Quicksilver flask of Adrenaline for increased movement speed
  • Wise Oak (Unique) for cold penetration for every cold resistance or Atziri’s Promise for bonus damage and chaos resistance
  • Cinderswallow Urn (Unique) for Onslaught, increased critical strike chance, recover life and mana when killing enemy or Diamond Flask for bonus crit

Thanks to the many golems at your disposal combined with its many ice spells, you’ll literally have a chill time with this build. Try it out – it’s what you need when the going gets hot.