Raising an Iron Golem from an Ethereal item makes the Iron Golem translucent. Once created, the item is lost forever, so think twice before using a valuable item. The item has to be of metal though, and it must be possible to equip. This can be anything from a cracked Short Sword to a Breath of the Dying runeword. The Iron Golem is unique in that it requires an item to be created. and beast does far less for your minions than advertised.Summon a Golem from a metal item.

Pride is kind of a trap because of hit freezes target. If you are dead set on beast you might as well throw it on a golem ( would not do it but you could) And the goal is finding ways to get the first corpse on the ground faster and making sure you need as few corpses to pop the screen.Īnd Bramble is basically free damage that shortens that time for your minions as melee based monsters start hurting themselves independent of your minions own dps.Īlso drop beast, hoto is better for clear speed, bigger ce pops, better cast rate, easlier to cap resistances. that is not a subtle difference.Īnd another thing to consider is that thorns dont give a fuck about the dps of your minions so it is super consistent even when baal is throwing decrepify on your blob of goons.Īt the end of the day the necromancer is still just a corpse explosion platform. As soon as you throw an amplify damage into mix even the aura from bramble will go from returning only 400 - 500% damage back to 1500% damage back. Keep in mind that thorns as an aura is only crap because of that built in 50% physical resistance hell mobs have. I would say in general clear speed its more impactful than the might aura your merc gives.

Here is what I will say, will bramble make a super mega awesome massive difference in clear speed? No.īut will it make A difference? yes.

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