Fire Golem

Creates a golem that converts the damage it receives from fire into life.

Fire Golem is the level 30 Necromancer spell at the end of the Summoning tree's golem line (requires Iron Golem; it unlocks nothing). It summons a single FireGolem melee pet, needs no corpse, can be cast in town and replaces any other golem. It does three things: it absorbs fire damage as life, 36% at level 1 and 88% at level 20; it adds fire damage to its hits, 10–27 at level 1 and 197–233 at level 20; and it carries a Holy Fire aura whose level is 7 plus the skill's, capped at 30. When it dies it explodes. Mana is the steepest of the golems, 50 at level 1 and 202 at level 20.

The numbers

• Fire absorb is dm12, the diminishing curve between Param1 25 ("Fire Absorb % Min") and Param2 100 ("Fire Absorb % Max"), set as item_absorbfire_percent (aurastatcalc2): 36% at level 1, 76% at level 10, 88% at level 20, 93% at level 30. The golem's fire resistance is set in the same row as 100 − dm12 (aurastatcalc1), so resistance and absorb always sum to 100: 64% and 36% at level 1, 12% and 88% at level 20. The Basin's older page has a different pair, a resistance of 175 minus the curve and an absorb it says was capped at 40%; the current table carries neither.
• Fire damage on its hits is EMin 10 to EMax 27 with brackets that climb by one each: the minimum grows +9 a level to level 8, +10 to 16, +11 to 22, +12 to 28 and +13 past that; the maximum +10, +11, +12, +13 and +14 over the same levels. That is 10–27 at level 1, 197–233 at level 20, 317–363 at level 30. The tooltip's damage line adds Holy Fire's attack bonus on top (its edmn and edmx times its Param5), which the repo's bank cannot compute for this page; the Basin's totals, aura included, are 37–66 at level 1 and 401–449 at level 20.
• Holy Fire level is sumsk1calc min(ln56, 30): Param5 7 ("Holy Fire Level baseline") plus Param6 1 a level, so level 8 at skill level 1, 27 at level 20 and 30 from level 23 on. The Basin's table gives the aura's pulse at level 27 as 34–36 fire damage over a 21⅓-yard radius, and at its cap 43.5–45.5 over 23⅓ yards.
• Death explosion: on death the golem fires monstercorpseexplode, calc2 100 physical and calc3 100 fire damage over a radius of calc4 6; the Basin's page lists the radius as 4 yards.
• Life is calc1, "HP % Modifier": Golem Mastery's life % (20 a level) plus 5% per hard point in Blood Golem, nothing from the golem's own level. The base is 313 in Normal, 613 in Nightmare and 1,013 in Hell (the Basin), and its physical damage 10–27, 15–39 and 18–47.
• Attack rating is 120 plus Golem Mastery's ln56 plus 20 per hard point in Clay Golem (passivecalc2). Defense is 200 plus 35 per hard point in Iron Golem (passivecalc3).
• Mana is 50 at level 1 and lvlmana 8 a level: 202 at level 20, 282 at level 30.

The absorb, the fire damage and the aura level read the golem's full level (lvl); Golem Mastery is read at full level; the three golem cross-synergies read hard points (blvl).

How it works

The golem is a golem pet with a melee attack that rolls Chance to Hit like a monster, and its Holy Fire aura pulses fire damage on everything around it as the Paladin's does. The Basin's rules:

• One golem at a time; the level used for chance to hit, attack and defense is the caster's level at casting, and stats are set at the point of casting. Golem Mastery and Summon Resist apply.
• The fire absorb heals it: fire damage it takes is turned into life by the absorb share (Fire Absorb). The Basin notes the absorb only matters when something has taken the golem's fire resistance down, and names Conviction, Lower Resist and, in Resurrected, a Fire Immunity Sundered charm.
• Critical hits do not double Holy Fire's radial damage.
• The Necromancer's +% Fire Skill Damage and −% enemy fire resistance do not apply to the golem; in Resurrected the caster's Monster Fire Immunity is Sundered does (passivecalc4).
• It cannot be put into hit recovery or knocked back, and it can open doors.

The mana climbs 8 a level, 202 at level 20 and 282 at level 30, for a golem whose life comes entirely from Golem Mastery and Blood Golem points. It is the most expensive recast in the tree.

Synergies and +skills

Three tooltip lines name the other golems, each read as hard points:

• Clay Golem: +20 Attack Rating per Level (Clay Golem Param8 20)
• Blood Golem: +5% Life per Level (BloodGolem Param8 5)
• Iron Golem: +35 Defense per Level (IronGolem Param8 35)

In return Fire Golem's own Param8 6, "Fire Golem Damage % synergy", is +6% damage per hard point to Clay Golem, Blood Golem and Iron Golem. Golem Mastery is read at full level; the cross-synergies move only with hard points.

Against players

The Necromancer casts nothing on a player with this skill. The golem's melee hits and its Holy Fire pulses on a player are cut to 17% by the player-versus-player rule, the fire parts then read against the player's fire resistance; the Basin's page records no other player-versus-player rule. See Player versus Player.

Build notes

• Level 20 is 88% fire absorb, 197–233 fire a hit and a level 27 aura for 202 mana; the aura caps at level 23 of the skill and the absorb curve flattens, so the late levels buy fire damage.
• Its life is Golem Mastery and Blood Golem hard points only; without them a Hell Fire Golem stands on 1,013 base life whatever its own level.
• Twenty hard points here are +120% damage to every other golem, which is where a build that summons a Clay or Iron Golem gets its value from the skill.