07-05-2006, 09:37 PM
Quote:High level fire golem backed by a high level lower resist is actually pretty good damage IMHO. Sure, it's not kill everything on the screen in a single click damage, but it is constant steady damage. Which is important too.Hi,
And don't forget fire golem bombing in emergencies.
Fire Golem actually makes a pretty impressive attacker when backed with a maxed iron golem and blood golem synergy. Also becomes very difficult to kill. Specialisation has a cost though.
You know, I wouldn't call him an 'impressive attacker', not even when fully synergized, which I didn't do. My skill points went into the curses and poison and bone tree, too.
Fire Golem, slvl 30, fully synergized, Golem Mastery slvl30:
<blockquote>Life (hell): 8104</blockquote>
<blockquote>Attack: 1270</blockquote>
<blockquote>Defense: 1250</blockquote>
<blockquote>Absorbs 93% fire damage</blockquote>
<blockquote>Damage (hell): 18-47</blockquote>
<blockquote>Fire Damage: 725-783</blockquote>
<blockquote>Holy Fire: 68-70</blockquote>
Sure the life is high, but the damage is rather pathetic, and he doesn't hit very fast. Even with a (hypothetic) slvl 30 lower resist (-65% enemy resistence), he only deals 1196-1291 Fire Damage. And this isn't even considering that many monsters are fire immune in hell, and many resistant. I would go as far as to say that the pure fire-golomancer is a quite hard variant in hell.
That's why I'm helping him out with a partly synergized bonespirit (doing about 900 dam. at the moment), and the very important act 2 hireling. Still, especially poison keeps me recasting him more often than I'd like to.
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