How does flesh golem compare to other pets
In my experience, Greater Earth Elemental is capable of tanking 2-3 normal guys for it’s entire duration or 1 veteran for 90% of it’s duration making it an excellent tank.
Ranger pets (I don’t have much experience with the tankier ones, as in I’ve never used one) tend to only be able to take a few hits before going down.
Flesh Golem for me lasts 1-3 hits from enemies making it pretty bad at tanking (Though that is while leveling in places +6 levels to me, unlike my Ele and Ranger testing)
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1) Never compare minions to pets, they are vastly different.
2) Flesh golem is okay at tanking but not really a tank like earth elemental is, so elemental wins out on tankingness imo. The difference is that the elementals, once dead, take 2 minutes to respawn, and only last 60 seconds, whereas Flesh golem is permanent until killed.
(edited by Bhawb.7408)
Yeah there is no comparison. Ranger pets can vary widely..if you take a cat or bird and have no pet related talents that pet will go splat just as fast as flesh golem. But if you have a devourer or bear or something and are fully beastmaster spec’d then it can tank packs of normal mobs, veterans with ease and not even lose health thanks to their various passive regens, and even some champions fairly handily.
Flesh golem won’t tank anything, if you so much as sneeze on the mob it will attack you over him it seems. Not to mention if its a veteran the poor guy drops like a rock. But if you’re trying to mine a node or something or run through an area quickly you can send him in to attract attention while you do your thing. Still the toughest of our minions but thats like saying the thickest piece of paper =/
The earth elemental like Bhawb said is a good tank but very limited by its duration and cooldown.