so how often would iron golem die in chaos? any one have an approximation?

For me, he never died and I've did tons of Chaos runs with my Summoner.
Remember, You have 20ish Skeleton, 20ish Revive(maybe more). that's 40 different targets. Add Merc and your Golem.

The chance that he will gets hit is very low. Also, the golem wont instant die if he gets hit. He loses enough HP to put his HP bar(Top Left Corner) in the Yellow(Almost Red).



**Correct me if I'm wrong**
The Iron Golem when summoned with a weapon, he gain the Weapon Range as Bonus stats, allowing him to attack from farther(if summoned with a polearm) and through your Skeletons front line.

edit: I was wrong, I think merc is the one that doesn't get attack range

This post was edited by Worrywart on Aug 27 2018 04:32pm

Still, I'm not even sure if its true or not. I haven't found anything that confirm nor deny it.

does the life tap bug on iron golem depend on weapon strength? i recall when i made golem from shity armor it never took any damage, and now, i made is from high damage eth insight and it get hit really hard very fast during life tap. Should i perhaps make golem from shittiest polearm i can find? or that's nothing to do with it?

make a bonewall and see if golem can attack through it

So i confirmed and indeed if you make iron golem from shitty polearm insight it almost does not take any damage while Life Tap on. I guess it's a good solution, considering Iron Golem is not really a damage dealer anyways

Just unsummon the cold mages as they raise up...

Mages are pretty good against physical immuned, and poison mages are nice to stop regeneration (taking Ubers into consideration here).

1 point into Mages is usually enough, with tons of +skill a necromancer should have.
Keep in mind Mages receive the full benefit of +skills, contrary to many other skills on which increasing synergies via items is pointless.

If you have some free skill points, then increasing Mages is an option, better in my eyes than increasing Bone armor's synergies, probably not as good as increasing Amplify radius.



If I do no mistake, you're at 110% fcr, where 75% and 125% are the breakpoints.
You should either :
reach 125% with Spirit and fcr ring,
or :
stay at 75% with Homunculus or Boneflame (more mana with the first, +1 skills with the second).

I would also trade BK for SoJ, casting CE chains being highly mana-consuming...

Colossus voulge on mercenary let you reach 5.5/11 frames at best (jab/standard attack), whereas with Thresher or Giant thresher, it could be 4.5/10 :
Thresher/GT Infinity
35ias Andariel
45ias Treachery

If you reconsider your main build and equip Beast instead of HotO, then check again your mercenary's breakpoints...

And finally, I don't think there's a real usage for bone wall, bone prison, bone spear, bone spirit. Just add some points into Amplify (that should match, at least, CE radius).



Hence a non etheral normal style Pride is the best choice for Iron Golem.
Pride Voulge : damage = 6-21 (and 20% deadly strike...)
Mine didn't have any problem in any situation !