Furnace Golem Strategies?

[AdamWe]

Are there any "real" strategies involved with these monstrosities?

With my current melee build I don't want to accept that wailing on their legs for minutes is the actual intended way.

My current observations:

- Stance breaks are seemingly only tied to damage, as performing high stance-damage attacks with low damage (+0 weapons) never broke their poise

- Attacking it's face with bows/throwing weapons (e.g., smithscript spear) , has seemingly no noticeable/feasible damage bonus

- I know about the Furnace Pots, but those cannot be used on every (non-stance-broken) golem, right?

- Black Flame DoT cannot be applied to them

Any tips are highly appreciated. :)

[Get out.]

I haven't figured it out yet but I have the feeling that the Visage crafting material we can collect is tied to him. Maybe we can craft a damage booster against them.

[Fistraiser]

If you stance break either leg for a combined total for 3 times it drops down so you can use critical on its face.it does a lot of damage.

[Darkstorm]

Craft hefty jars (forgot which ones, but they were fire like, around 5 is needed) and throw them from high place into their "head". Otherwise use mimic tear and use fire protect me incantation with fire amulet and just keep hitting jump attacks, if it lifts one leg to stomp it's possible to jump over fire if it lifts two i didnt find a way to dodge it. Try to not stand infront of it to not get the "kick".

[pr1mus]

you attack their legs until they get staggered, then you can critically hit them in the face for most of their HP.

there's also armored leg varieties that you have to kill by throwing fire pots into their core, these mobs are always next to a raised plateau or spiritspring to give you a vantage point to lob those pots into them, you can't stagger these guys by attacking their legs.

[psilocybe]

Have you attempted throwing other types of pots inside of them?

Sleep or Ice?

Does the bewitching branch have any effect?

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Furnace+Golem

Seems like people in the comments are having an easy time with pure spell-casters.

[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by Fistraiser:

If you stance break either leg for a combined total for 3 times it drops down so you can use critical on its face.it does a lot of damage.

And yeah once it falls to the ground get the crit. Two crits should kill it. I used colossal sword jump attacks(malikeths black blade).

[Tao314zdin]

That's how I do it on my str-build:
-hit-hit-hit-hit with great-katana until they fall down
-crit
-pot
-at that point they have a silver of health left and are dead in few more hits

Phase 1 is the longest, but it is like 2 min, afterwards they die rapidly.

[AdamWe]

Thanks for all the input so far. :D
Maybe I was a bit too shallow with the info in my post. The problem I am having is not the actual fight itself. Hitting them until they fall down for the crit is how I beat them so far. However, getting them to fall over takes so long that it starts to feel really wrong.
The "fastest" way for me was to use Giant-Crusher with RKR fully charged heavies to topple them and then use a Misericorde with RKR for the crit.

Originally posted by Fistraiser:

If you stance break either leg for a combined total for 3 times it drops down so you can use critical on its face.it does a lot of damage.

This is currently my way to beat them as a melee user, but those stance breaks take forever to occur.

Originally posted by Darkstorm:

Craft hefty jars (forgot which ones, but they were fire like, around 5 is needed) and throw them from high place into their "head". Otherwise use mimic tear and use fire protect me incantation with fire amulet and just keep hitting jump attacks, if it lifts one leg to stomp it's possible to jump over fire if it lifts two i didnt find a way to dodge it. Try to not stand infront of it to not get the "kick".

Now I really want to check if there are "high places" to lure each golem towards. This would actually be a nice strat against those guys.

Originally posted by psilocybe:

Have you attempted throwing other types of pots inside of them?

Sleep or Ice?

Does the bewitching branch have any effect?

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Furnace+Golem

Seems like people in the comments are having an easy time with pure spell-casters.

Good point, I haven't tried those status effects by now. It would be kinda FromSoft to give a BBQ grill a sleep weakness.

[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by AdamWe:

Thanks for all the input so far. :D
Maybe I was a bit too shallow with the info in my post. The problem I am having is not the actual fight itself. Hitting them until they fall down for the crit is how I beat them so far. However, getting them to fall over takes so long that it starts to feel really wrong.
The "fastest" way for me was to use Giant-Crusher with RKR fully charged heavies to topple them and then use a Misericorde with RKR for the crit.

Originally posted by Fistraiser:

If you stance break either leg for a combined total for 3 times it drops down so you can use critical on its face.it does a lot of damage.

This is currently my way to beat them as a melee user, but those stance breaks take forever to occur.

Originally posted by Darkstorm:

Craft hefty jars (forgot which ones, but they were fire like, around 5 is needed) and throw them from high place into their "head". Otherwise use mimic tear and use fire protect me incantation with fire amulet and just keep hitting jump attacks, if it lifts one leg to stomp it's possible to jump over fire if it lifts two i didnt find a way to dodge it. Try to not stand infront of it to not get the "kick".

Now I really want to check if there are "high places" to lure each golem towards. This would actually be a nice strat against those guys.

Originally posted by psilocybe:

Have you attempted throwing other types of pots inside of them?

Sleep or Ice?

Does the bewitching branch have any effect?

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Furnace+Golem

Seems like people in the comments are having an easy time with pure spell-casters.

Good point, I haven't tried those status effects by now. It would be kinda FromSoft to give a BBQ grill a sleep weakness.

Not sure if all do have such spots around, but some do. Two for sure have(one even got spirit spring so you can jump there on torrent). I just forgot the name of the jar that does the trick, but I think it's the one that uses furnace visages in crafting. I killed two that way. The rest I bruteforce with mimic tear(for one summon was not available if i recall correctly and had to do the job myself for few minutes).

[Rae Nidae]

There is one Furnace Golem near the Cathedral of Manus Metyr that seems like it can neither be damaged nor stance broken due to having armor on its ankles where you'd usually be hitting it. I'm genuinely not sure how to deal with it

[Darkstorm]

I think it's the one with spirit spring nearby. That's the one of the two i killed with hefty jars.

[Holneer]

Dual-wielding jumping attacks and summoning a mimic tear is always an option. Either way those trashbins are annoying, you just jump over stomps for 2-3 minutes.

[awanderingswordsman]

Originally posted by Rae Nidae:

There is one Furnace Golem near the Cathedral of Manus Metyr that seems like it can neither be damaged nor stance broken due to having armor on its ankles where you'd usually be hitting it. I'm genuinely not sure how to deal with it

There's 2 like this. You need to craft hefty furnace pots and chuck them into their head. Both of the armored leg variants are by spiritsprings you should use to get up there. Very lame gimmick but 3 pots kills em and each one staggers em long enough to throw the next one so it doesn't actually take very long once you know what to do.

[Rae Nidae]

Originally posted by awanderingswordsman:

Originally posted by Rae Nidae:

There is one Furnace Golem near the Cathedral of Manus Metyr that seems like it can neither be damaged nor stance broken due to having armor on its ankles where you'd usually be hitting it. I'm genuinely not sure how to deal with it

There's 2 like this. You need to craft hefty furnace pots and chuck them into their head. Both of the armored leg variants are by spiritsprings you should use to get up there. Very lame gimmick but 3 pots kills em and each one staggers em long enough to throw the next one so it doesn't actually take very long once you know what to do.

I will try that next time I see it, but holy hell I would have never figured that out on my own lmao

[Seinekar]

So far and after few tries, my "method" is to ride on horse to their legs, and while still riding hit him with melee weaponon legs. Also summon to help deal more damage (mimic tear).

When it stomps with one or 2 legs, double jump with Torrent is enough to avoid it entirely (when double stomp maybe get some distance)

After "a while" it falls, then hit its weak glowing point (the "face"). So far, 2 hits on the face was enough to kill them.

BTW, i found one apparently "dead" wich seems to block the entrance to a building. Guess i should try throwing fire pots or something to reignite it, maybe it awakes.