Am I doing this wrong or do Armored Furnace Golems suck?

[MisterRed]

Just beat my first one, and... Boy was it an experience. I lost a few times figuring them out, and eventually came up with a strategy, the strategy works, but also makes them one of the most boring bosses ive ever fought. That strategy being create a bunch of hefty fire pots, jump to high place, throw in skull, run away and leave so I can craft more (Crafting menu gets locked in combat apparently), ride back, repeat until dead (Whichever death comes first).

[Nihrahk]

Nope... that's sadly just how they work.

[Joeycentral]

They are tough. It took me about 1 hour of attacking their legs to get them down. It's not hard, just super tedious.

[MisterRed]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Nope... that's sadly just how they work.

Tbh I was hoping I just accidentally found the most roundabout and boring way to deal with them. Sadly it seems their fate is "Worst DLC boss"

[Sgt. Flaw]

These things suck

They look cool AF and have some serious map AoE fire spells..but fight them is a chore

[CourtesyFlush09]

They looked REALLY cool at first, but the fights are incredibly boring once you know what to do. And for some arbitrary reason, you have to stagger them three times instead of two because who cares just do it.

The base game had the same issue with dragon fights. They all look cool, but are a slog to fight.

[River Victor]

This is correct strategy, however, you're not supposed to tackle them until you have at least 3-4 or even 5 hefty cracked pots to push the max limit of furnace pots you can carry to to 3-5. There's no crafting needed during the fight. Equip the throwing pots talisman and put the furnace pots in pouch shortcut and find a high place.

[MisterRed]

Originally posted by River Victor:

This is correct strategy, however, you're not supposed to tackle them until you have at least 3-4 or even 5 hefty cracked pots to push the max limit of furnace pots you can carry to to 3-5. There's no crafting needed during the fight. Equip the throwing pots talisman and put the furnace pots in pouch shortcut and find a high place.

So it should be possible to do it all in one run, i just dont have enough pots? That would at least significantly speed up the process lol, I need to search more before fighting more of them

[Anthreris]

The best technique I've found without having a height advantage is to ride torrent and hack at the back of the legs. Double jumping whenever the foot stomp happens. Running away when the "double foot jump explosion" happens then turning and jumping over the spreading hazard.

This "strategy" makes most of the attacks these two abilities. Sometimes you'll get the homing rain of fire ability at which point jump sprint away while curving along the back of the Furnace Golem and it won't do it's magma kick.

Pretty boring, but then it'll eventually fall and you can riposte it, then immediately sprint to where you can see top of it's "brazier" and chuck a Hefty Fire Pot before it gets up.


Every method is boring but this is what I used. I don't know what they were thinking when they designed this boss, but I'm tired of fighting the legs of large enemies.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Joeycentral:

They are tough. It took me about 1 hour of attacking their legs to get them down. It's not hard, just super tedious.

That wasn't an armored one then, just a basic ♥♥♥♥♥ furnace golem. They still suck though.

Originally posted by MisterRed:

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Nope... that's sadly just how they work.

Tbh I was hoping I just accidentally found the most roundabout and boring way to deal with them. Sadly it seems their fate is "Worst DLC boss"

They aren't really a boss either, since no boss health bar. They are just a tedious enemy to fight that you just kill for the tears.

[MisterRed]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush09:

They looked REALLY cool at first, but the fights are incredibly boring once you know what to do. And for some arbitrary reason, you have to stagger them three times instead of two because who cares just do it.

The base game had the same issue with dragon fights. They all look cool, but are a slog to fight.

They are definitely a visually appealing enemy lol, but with the unarmored ones you roleplay Mario between slapping their ankles, and with the armored ones you roleplay Donkey Kong and throw barrels at them from above, they do get pretty boring fast

[Strelok]

My method was to simply go below them while ridding torrent and spam Ancient Dragon Lightning and double jump away when they start stomping.

[MisterRed]

Originally posted by Strelok:

My method was to simply go below them while ridding torrent and spam Ancient Dragon Lightning and double jump away when they start stomping.

Do the lightning strikes spawn high enough to hit in their basket thing, or do they just do a lot of poise damage?

[Strelok]

Originally posted by MisterRed:

Originally posted by Strelok:

My method was to simply go below them while ridding torrent and spam Ancient Dragon Lightning and double jump away when they start stomping.

Do the lightning strikes spawn high enough to hit in their basket thing, or do they just do a lot of poise damage?

Personally I wasn't even aware that throwing things inside the basket would deal more damage so I wouldn't know. Both the actual and the poise damage were very good in my opinion though

[MisterRed]

Originally posted by Strelok:

Originally posted by MisterRed:

Do the lightning strikes spawn high enough to hit in their basket thing, or do they just do a lot of poise damage?

Personally I wasn't even aware that throwing things inside the basket would deal more damage so I wouldn't know. Both the actual and the poise damage were very good in my opinion though

Totally doing this to the next one I see. Surprised I didnt think of it, considering Im running a Faith/Dex builld. Thanks for the suggestion

[Strelok]

Originally posted by MisterRed:

Originally posted by Strelok:

Personally I wasn't even aware that throwing things inside the basket would deal more damage so I wouldn't know. Both the actual and the poise damage were very good in my opinion though

Totally doing this to the next one I see. Surprised I didnt think of it, considering Im running a Faith/Dex builld. Thanks for the suggestion

No problem. I should mention that I only did that to the first 2 furnaces I met though, didn't bother to go and deal with the other ones. I am at NG+4 and I would deal around 6-7k damage per fully charged strike