Question about Iron Golem damage:

jread

Diabloii.Net Member
Question about Iron Golem damage:

I still do not understand how the damage works on skeletons and golems because if you look at what you are summoning, the damage looks very low. For instance, I have lvl 40+ skeletons with level 40+ skeleton mastery but their damage is still in the mid-100s from looking at the actual skill. I know, however, that it increases quite a bit once my might merc has activated his aura and I've equipped my beast axe (though I have no idea what their damage actually is).

My question is whether or not an iron golem ever really gets high damage. For instance, say I make an Insight iron golem that uses an Eth CV. The damage of that weapon is higher than most, but is he still only doing about 600 base damage? Does that come out to still less than 1000 when all auras are activated?

This makes me wonder if it's worth getting a high-damage weapon for my Insight golems at all. Why not make them out of cheapo 4-socket polearms that I can find anywhere?
 

NumtyDoo

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: Question about Iron Golem damage:

Skellies do pretty good damage, the way you need to look at it is like this; lets say your skellies do 500 damage (dunno for sure as the calcs not working) after all of the auras, you then can double that because of amp, so each would be doing 1k per hit, but you have 15-18 of them so you are really looking at 15k a second.

That is why tele is popular, normally your skellies spread out, which also spreads out the damage, when you tele it stacks the skellies so they all attack the same monster all at the same time. So tele isn't just for getting around, it greatly increases killing speed to get the CE's started.

As far as IG's, most make them out of low damage weapons so they don't die from IM. thier damage isn't that great and you won't miss it.
 

kreality

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: Question about Iron Golem damage:

Is it ok if I not using Act2 Merc for Skeleton Build? Will the skeleton Build still effective?

Well...I kinda bored with Act2 Merc...
 

NumtyDoo

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: Question about Iron Golem damage:

Most that get away from the act2 merc use an act1 merc with faith.
 
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