Golem Mastery

Enhances speed and life of all your golems.

Golem Mastery is a level 12 Necromancer passive (Summoning tree, requires Clay Golem; it unlocks Summon Resist). It costs no mana and casts nothing: the four golem skills read its level when a golem is summoned and give the golem +20% life a level, +25 attack rating a level and a speed bonus on a diminishing curve, 6% at level 1, 33% at level 20, capped at 40%. The life bonus is the one that matters, because every golem multiplies it with its own life percentage rather than adding the two.

The numbers

• Life is Param1 20 ("HP % baseline") plus Param2 20 ("HP % per level") for each level past the first, which is the ln12 the golems read and comes to 20 × level: +20% at level 1, +400% at level 20, +600% at level 30. The tooltip prints it as lvl × par1, the same number.
• Attack Rating is Param5 25 ("Attack Rating baseline") plus Param6 25 a level (ln56): +25 at level 1, +500 at level 20, +750 at level 30. It is a flat addition to the golem's attack rating.
• Run/Walk Speed is the diminishing curve dm34 between Param3 0 ("Velocity % Min") and Param4 40 ("Velocity % Max"), which the Basin writes as min(40 × (110 × level ÷ (level + 6)) ÷ 100, 40): +6% at level 1, +27% at level 10, +33% at level 20, +36% at level 30.
• Mana is 0; the skill is passive and has no cost line.

Every golem reads the mastery at its full level (skill('Golem Mastery'.ln12), .ln56, .dm34), so +skills from items count in full here.

How it works

Golem Mastery is a passive state (passivestate "golem_mastery"). The Basin confirms it applies to Clay Golem, Blood Golem, Iron Golem and Fire Golem, and to nothing else: skeletons, mages and revives have Skeleton Mastery instead. Each golem skill's own columns do the reading:

• The golem's passivecalc1 sets its speed to the mastery's dm34.
• The golem's passivecalc2 adds the mastery's ln56 to its attack rating.
• The golem's calc1, "HP % Modifier", takes the mastery's ln12 into its life. For Clay Golem and Blood Golem that is a multiplication: (100 + the golem's own life % per level) × (100 + the mastery's life % + any Blood Golem synergy) ÷ 100 − 100. For Iron Golem and Fire Golem, which have no life percentage of their own, the mastery's line plus the Blood Golem synergy is the whole bonus.

The Basin's rule that matters in play: the bonuses are applied at the time of summoning, and changing the mastery's level afterwards does nothing to a golem already standing. The Basin also notes the order: the mastery's +% life is added to the Blood Golem synergy and applied before +% maximum life from Battle Orders and Oak Sage.

The mastery's attack rating is flat, +500 at level 20, and its speed is capped at 40%. The life line is where the points go; the other two come along.

Synergies and +skills

No synergies of its own: Golem Mastery has no dsc3 lines and no …SymPerCalc column, and no skill lists it as a synergy. It is read directly, at full level, by all four golems, so a +1 from a wand or a shrunken head is worth exactly one hard point: +20% life, +25 attack rating and a step up the speed curve for the next golem you summon. The Basin lists the +1–3 Golem Mastery affix on wands and shrunken heads of item level 12 and above.

Against players

Golem Mastery never touches a player. It changes the golem's life, attack rating and speed, and the golem's own hits on a player are cut to 17% by the player-versus-player rule as any hit is; see Player versus Player.

Build notes

• Twenty points are +400% life, +500 attack rating and +33% speed on whichever golem you summon; a level 30 mastery from +10 skills is +600%, +750 and +36%.
• Because the golems multiply it with their own life bonus, a point here is worth more on a high-level Clay or Blood Golem than a point in that golem; on an Iron or Fire Golem the mastery is the golem's only life scaling.
• Summon the golem after you put on your +skills gear and after any change to it: the bonus is set when the golem rises.