Not the flashiest, but you could craft Safety Boots for the CtC Frost Nova, or Blood Boots for added Life. Knockback also sends monsters into hit recovery animation, which does wonders to your survivability.īesides RWs, you could use Iron Golem on not-so-well-crafted items. Wow! Knockback may seem irritating at first, but chances are the monster is swarmed by skellies so it won't matter too much. It also comes with -100 Monster Def per Hit, making it easier for skellies & merc to hit the said foe repeatedly.īlack (Thul + Io + Nef) comes with minor Cold damage, 15% IAS and a whopping 40% Crushing Blow. Malice (Ith + El + Eth) is the second RW with Open Wounds, this time 100%.

Too bad Life Leech doesn't seem to work on the Golem (at least I haven't seen the red swirly thingie popping off). Diablo 2 General Discussion Feedback Bug Reports Contribs Patch Notes About the site Members List The Team. Yes, you can have a 'permanent' summon who administers CBs all over the place. Iron Golems can have auras when created from items such as Infinity, Dream, Insight, Beast, etc which can be a tremendous boost to your army. Strength (Amn + Tir) comes with 25% Crushing Blow. Not terribly exciting by itself, but at least it keeps enemies from regenerating health while active. Steel (Tir + El) is cheap as it gets, and it comes with 50% Open Wounds. Some of the cheapest RWs have interesting properties to transfer to IG:

Turns out you can get good mileage out of it with far cheaper Normal items. No, I'm not talking about using Beast, Infinity or such RWs to make high-risk-high-reward summon. Besides looking cool as feck in D2R, I've only recently realized how neat Iron Golem can get.

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