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Why considering them then? A fresh start means you don't have that much stuff to trade and you'll have to rely on your findings. So, if you want to go bones you'll very much like to spend most of skills into them to bring on the damage. BTW Spear has better damage progression later on than Spirit in 1.1x
In short, no.

Ah, ok. Still looking for a direct damage source

Golems aren't designed to deal damage, even if they seem to do at first glance. Especially their punching damage is pathetic. All of them, synergies given and taken. Plus they have really poor attack speed. In fact IMHO the only one good in some way for damage is the Iron Golem, because of its inbuilt Thorns, but this one needs an item to be cast from, tends to get lost in terrain, and is of no use against ranged and/or elemental attackers.

Well, I don't mind buying some cheap metal item to start out first, but it does look like clay golem is better in most situations. So I should just stick with the good ol' G mastery?

If you go Poison with all the synergies physical damage of the dagger is nearly irrelevant. There is the possibility of using Poison Dagger and wield a nice physical damage dagger at once, but you'll focus on Crushing Blow then (AmnTir comes to mind). Forget about usual physical enhancement you may remember from other classes, that's not worth the trouble with daggers. I've tried that, and even with good equipment (ie the one you probably can't afford for some time) and a mighty merc you're still very slow and in permanent danger. Doable, but very, very tiresome.

Crushing blow would be very useful. ;D So I won't really need much str, but prob a bit of dex. I'll need to look up which unique daggers have crushing blow, if any. I suppose there's always poison nova too.

IIRC the Thorns aura doesn't stack with inbuilt IG thorns. Iron Maiden would stack, but with a worse damage ratio than Amplify would. You dont want your enemies slowed down by Holy Freeze with an IG, since they'll need more time to smash their heads onto the IG then. And you won't want to give your IG a big defense via Defiance aura, since this will reduce reflected damage over time, too. The other available aurae are of no relevance.

Yea, I remember that amplify was the way to go. I am still worried about dealing damage to enemies.

As always, this is IMHO and AFAIK and IIRC and YMMV.

Indeed.