GhazzyTV's Golem Guardian Gear, Jewels & Flasks (PoE Affliction)

Summary – TL;DR

Cap your Elemental Resistances and get the attributes your gems require to make sure you can use them all. There are a few unique item options however, the remaining pieces should be Rare with Life and of course any lacking attributes/resistances.

Item Slot	Item Name	Rarity
Head	Life then Res/Attributes as needed or end-game: a helmet with “+ level of all minion gems)	Rare
Amulet	Life then Res/Attributes as needed or Replica Dragonfang's Flight with +3 levels to Carrion Golem	Rare/Unique
Chest	Life then Res/Attributes as needed or end-game: Replica Covenant	Rare/Unique
Gloves	Life then Res/Attributes as needed or end-game: Triad Grip	Rare/Unique
Boots	Life then Res/Attributes as needed	Rare
Belt	Darkness Enthroned	Unique
Rings	Life then Res/Attributes as needed	Rare
Weapon	Clayshaper	Unique
Shield	Life then Res/Attributes as needed or end-game: include #% life recovery on block	Rare

Armour Pieces

A lot of the higher budget examples can either be purchased or crafted, and when crafted I would strongly suggest utilizing Craft of Exile to determine the cheapest approach to crafting the desired items.

Since a lot items in this build are unique for the end-game, the main focus will be to have as much Life as possible and sort out any Attributes & Resistances, as we need to reach the desired caps. However, with that said there are some juicy choices one can take to increase the build’s efficiency, although it does come with a higher price tag.

Helmet

This piece is literally only going to be focusing on Life, Resistances & any needed attributes. If you’re able to get the modifier “+1-2 to level of all minion skill gems” that would be a very nice bonus!

• Life (Until you get Utula's Hunger then this modifier is completely ignored)
• Elemental resistances if needed to reach the 75% cap
• +1-2 Level of all minion skill gems
• Attributes if needed to equip your gear and gems
• Chaos resistance

Body Armour

A corrupted 6-Link chest piece or even a Tabula Rasa would work initially. Later on you’ll want to get the crazy Replica Covenant.

Check wether a corrupted 6-Link chest or Tabula rasa is cheaper, always. If the corrupted 6-link is roughly the same price, and it has the correct socket colours, it is going to be the superior choice. As it is corrupted you basically take what you can get here, life/resistances – any stat is better than no stat almost always.

Gloves

The only way for us to make our minions deal 100% elemental damage is to use Triad Grip. For this build we’ll want to use the following colors: Blue – Green – Green – Green. Quick tip to make the sockets proper color on these gloves is to use the bench-craft in your hideout making 2 sockets green and then use the bench-craft making the item have 2 sockets which will make it keep the 2 green sockets, then make it 3 sockets. Most likely this will not be green, If it is not, go down to 2. Add socket. Repeat until 3G. Add socket 4 and it has a high likelihood of being red. Same process as before if it misses. This is a LOT more currency efficient than spending chromatics.

Boots

We are mainly looking for a proper movement speed roll on this slot, the remaining modifiers are all about Life (till you get the Utula’s Hunger), resistances and/or attributes if needed.

• Life
• Elemental resistances if needed to reach the 75% cap
• Attributes if needed to equip your gear and gems
• Chaos resistance

Belt

We’ll be using the unique: Darkness Enthroned as it scales the modifiers on socketed abyssal jewels inside of it by 50-100%!

Jewel Modifier Priority List:
1. Life
2. Minion Accuracy to make sure your minions have 100% chance to hit
3. Added flat physical (or cold, lightning, fire) damage to your minions
4. Increased x% minion damage, when you’ve used a minion skill recently
5. Minion attack speed
6. Attributes and/or resistances if needed

Accessories

Amulet

A rare one to help alleviate mainly attributes and resistances is a great initial choice here, for the end-game we’ll want to get ourselves a The Jinxed Juju.

The anoint you want is Testudo.

Rings

We want 1x Bone Ring and 1x Unset Ring here. Priorities affixes as outlined below and per your needs.

• Life
• Elemental resistances if needed to reach the 75% cap
• Attributes if needed to equip your gear and gems
• Minion Damage (Bone ring Only)
• Increased attack speed for minions (Bone Ring Only)

Weapon

The Choice here is easy, we’re going to be using a Clayshaper. The extra golem is invaluable, and the sheer flat damage boost for golems is extremely strong.

Flasks

Flask set-ups are almost always a matter of personal taste when it comes to what utility flasks to use. However, I will list the set-up I’ve been using for a smooth play experience. To find the available list of modifiers the flasks can have, check out these links: Utility Flasks, Life Flasks, Mana Flasks & lastly: Hybrid Flasks

1	“Seething” Divine Life Flask of Sealing	Instant life flask that also removes bleed effects from you
2	Rumi's Concoction	This flask provides us with the remaining block % that we need to reach the caps. Note that this flask is optional
3	“Transgressor”, “Masochist’s” or “Flaggelant’s” Basalt Flask of “Abalone”, “Tortoise”, “Pangolin” or “Armadillo”	The prefix modifier helps sustain the flask charges during map clearing & the flask provides increased physical damage mitigation whilst the suffix increase your armor significantly
4	“Transgressor”, “Masochist’s” or “Flaggelant’s” Eternal Life Flask	A back-up life flask which I prefer to also include a suffix modifier dispelling bleeds from us but it’s highly preferential
5	“Transgressor”, “Masochist’s” or “Flaggelant’s” Quicksilver Flask	This is a great alternative to the Silver flask if you just want to move faster. It grants vast movement speed.

For help crafting your non-Unique flasks, we recommend checking out our Flask Crafting Guide.

Jewels

We’ll be exclusively using Ghastly Eye Jewel as they provide minion related modifiers. Thanks to Darkness Enthroned we can put our best jewels in there to further scale those modifiers. Also note that if you’re struggling to solve attributes and/or resistances you can get those modifiers on these jewels as well and they are also scaled by the Darkness Enthroned belt should it come down to that!

Jewel Modifier Priority List:
1. Life
2. Minion Accuracy to make sure your minions have 100% chance to hit
3. Added flat physical (or cold, lightning, fire) damage to your minions
4. Increased x% minion damage, when you’ve used a minion skill recently
5. Minion attack speed
6. Attributes and/or resistances if needed

You should also get the following affixes across your jewels, spread out however you want:
1. Minions have #% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks
2. Minions have #% chance to Blind on Hit with Attacks