03-01-2003, 10:29 PM
Sorry, I assumed that response was to me, being how I did first state "Your Iron golem will die no matter what"
:P
As for Nico's post:
First off, I'd assumed you wouldn't use revives. Because, believe it or not, it will actually do less damage returned than a IG will do (due to the hell's 50% physical resistances). Its no small wonder that you can keep your merc alive. Its very easy to do with tanking revives. Using a thorns merc with just skellies/blood golem will diss out the most damage, but as you can already guess, those skellies aren't exactly good tanks. And so the merc is 10x harder to keep alive ;).
As for mercs and tactics of keeping them alive. I do believe I have the experience. Being how I was one of those rare fellows who actually used them in 1.08 ;). I know everything there is to know.
My damage comparison isn't far off. No one (except for someone who is new), who uses a pure IG necro (they don't use revives or any other summon for that matter) would have just a base lvl 20 IG. The average person may be around slvl 30. IF I was to do it, would go slvl40+. I actually underestimated (due to the fact you use revives) the damage comparison, IG does more than revives + thorns anyday (again 50% reduction). But this is a quick assumption. I would do the math, but my brain is currently fried from a long.. long and horrid day at work ;)
:P
As for Nico's post:
First off, I'd assumed you wouldn't use revives. Because, believe it or not, it will actually do less damage returned than a IG will do (due to the hell's 50% physical resistances). Its no small wonder that you can keep your merc alive. Its very easy to do with tanking revives. Using a thorns merc with just skellies/blood golem will diss out the most damage, but as you can already guess, those skellies aren't exactly good tanks. And so the merc is 10x harder to keep alive ;).
As for mercs and tactics of keeping them alive. I do believe I have the experience. Being how I was one of those rare fellows who actually used them in 1.08 ;). I know everything there is to know.
My damage comparison isn't far off. No one (except for someone who is new), who uses a pure IG necro (they don't use revives or any other summon for that matter) would have just a base lvl 20 IG. The average person may be around slvl 30. IF I was to do it, would go slvl40+. I actually underestimated (due to the fact you use revives) the damage comparison, IG does more than revives + thorns anyday (again 50% reduction). But this is a quick assumption. I would do the math, but my brain is currently fried from a long.. long and horrid day at work ;)