11-17-2008, 07:17 AM
By v. 1.10 and beyond, golems have been nerfed compared to their past incarnations. Skeletons are now the necro summoner's main weapons, as the synergies of 1.10 have made them much more durable than golems (except the clay golem, which has an ungodly amount of HP).
Lvl 20 skeleton summon and mastery gives each skeleton 1700++ HP while lvl 20 fire golem and mastery gives each fire (and iron) golem 1500++ HP. Each Skeleton does around 125 damage while the fire golem does 425 at that level + holy fire damage. Of course, there'll be 10 skeletons hacking away as opposed to just 1 fire golem.
In any case, here's the breakdown of what you'll be looking for between the 2 golems you wish to conjure up.
Iron Golem Pros:
-Has automatic Thorns aura
-Takes the properties of the item it was formed (If the item has life steal, it will regain hp along with the other properties the weapon has)
-Spawns whenever you start a game (does not need recasting whenever you restart a game, unless of course it dies)
Iron Golem Cons:
-Have to make it out of a metal item, and you lose that item forever.
-Its not that tough... IMO
Fire Golem Pros:
-Can be created out of nothing
-Does fairly OK fire damage
-Has Holy Fire aura, and does fire damage to surrounding enemies
-Absorbs fire damage and converts it to life for itself
-Explodes when it dies, damaging surrounding enemies
Fire Golem Cons:
-Holy Fire damage is fairly weak to useless beyond normal difficulty
-Becomes almost hard to use in Hell difficulty due to every monster having at least one immunity, though the necro's Lower Resist can help counteract that immunity (On a side note, all monsters in hell have 50% physical damage resistance by default).
-Its just tough like the iron golem, but can easily be respawned
For most people, the best golem now is the basic clay golem, as it can easily have 10K HP and will slow down opponents and bosses easily (Couple that with the Decrepify curse to have really slow attacking bosses). You might want to invest in that if you're looking for a tank and have most of your bone and poison spells do most of the damage (I still think skeletons are better tanks due to their numbers).
BTW, here's a handy Necro pet calculator you may want to use for reference, its based on stats for ver 1.10 and beyond: http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~gottwald/necro_...lator.html
Lvl 20 skeleton summon and mastery gives each skeleton 1700++ HP while lvl 20 fire golem and mastery gives each fire (and iron) golem 1500++ HP. Each Skeleton does around 125 damage while the fire golem does 425 at that level + holy fire damage. Of course, there'll be 10 skeletons hacking away as opposed to just 1 fire golem.
In any case, here's the breakdown of what you'll be looking for between the 2 golems you wish to conjure up.
Iron Golem Pros:
-Has automatic Thorns aura
-Takes the properties of the item it was formed (If the item has life steal, it will regain hp along with the other properties the weapon has)
-Spawns whenever you start a game (does not need recasting whenever you restart a game, unless of course it dies)
Iron Golem Cons:
-Have to make it out of a metal item, and you lose that item forever.
-Its not that tough... IMO
Fire Golem Pros:
-Can be created out of nothing
-Does fairly OK fire damage
-Has Holy Fire aura, and does fire damage to surrounding enemies
-Absorbs fire damage and converts it to life for itself
-Explodes when it dies, damaging surrounding enemies
Fire Golem Cons:
-Holy Fire damage is fairly weak to useless beyond normal difficulty
-Becomes almost hard to use in Hell difficulty due to every monster having at least one immunity, though the necro's Lower Resist can help counteract that immunity (On a side note, all monsters in hell have 50% physical damage resistance by default).
-Its just tough like the iron golem, but can easily be respawned
For most people, the best golem now is the basic clay golem, as it can easily have 10K HP and will slow down opponents and bosses easily (Couple that with the Decrepify curse to have really slow attacking bosses). You might want to invest in that if you're looking for a tank and have most of your bone and poison spells do most of the damage (I still think skeletons are better tanks due to their numbers).
BTW, here's a handy Necro pet calculator you may want to use for reference, its based on stats for ver 1.10 and beyond: http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~gottwald/necro_...lator.html
