One of the most dangerous enemies you’ll face in the expansive and perilous environment of Elden Ring are Furnace Golems. These foes are notorious for their enormous size, potent assaults, and fiery disposition, making them extremely difficult to destroy. But you can defeat them and carry on exploring the Lands Between if you have the appropriate plans and techniques. This thorough guide will assist you in successfully defeating Furnace Golems.
Knowing About Furnace Golems
Understanding your opponent is vital before implementing any techniques. Massive, fire-infused machines known as furnace golems are capable of a wide range of destructive strikes. They have massive weapons that can deliver a lot of damage, and they are well-armored, making them impervious to many types of damage. Like Tree Sentinel in the base game, the Furnace Golem is one of the first adversaries you’ll encounter in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, demonstrating that it doesn’t back down from challenging opponents right away. Though it is more formidable than many of them, the first enormous, flaming monster you encounter in the Gravesite Plain isn’t really a boss; in fact, there are more bosses in the DLC. Furnace Golems are difficult to defeat, thus it’s not advisable to approach them normally unless you wish to burn to ash.
Key Characteristics
- High HP and Defense: Furnace Golems have a substantial health pool and are resistant to physical attacks due to their heavy armor.
- Fire Attacks: These golems use fire-based attacks that can deal area-of-effect (AoE) damage.
- Slow Movements: Despite their power, Furnace Golems are relatively slow, giving you opportunities to dodge and counterattack.
Preparation
- Gear Up Appropriately:
- Fire Resistance: Equip armor and accessories that increase your fire resistance to mitigate the damage from their fire attacks.
- Weapons: Use weapons that deal high damage per hit, such as greatswords or hammers. Weapons with magic or lightning infusions can be particularly effective against their armor.
- Consumables: Stock up on healing items, fire resistance potions, and buffs for your weapon.
- Learn Their Moveset: Spend some time observing the Furnace Golem’s attack patterns. Knowing when and how they attack will help you time your dodges and counterattacks more effectively.
Combat Techniques
- Maintain Your Distance: Furnace Golems are slow moving, thus you can usually outrun or outmanoeuvre them. Wait for an opportunity to attack while maintaining a safe distance.
- Avoid and Retaliate: Furnace Golems move slowly and deliberately to announce their attacks. Avoid their blows and seek out opportunities to strike back. To avoid being in their direct line of sight, aim for their back or legs.
- Employ Long-Range Attacks: Take advantage of this if your character design allows for ranged attacks (like sorcery or archery). Maintain a safe distance and use arrows or ranged spells to reduce their health.
- Utilise Your Weak Points: You can target the weak spots on Furnace Golems to deal more damage. Look for any bright spots on their body, which are usually located on the back or chest. A critical hit can be made and the golem can be slowed down by striking certain vulnerable spots.
- Prevent AoE Fire Attacks: Furnace Golems are capable of launching destructive AoE fire assaults. If you see them getting ready for one of these attacks, get out of their way fast to prevent getting hit hard.
There are a few strikes that you must repel from when fighting the Furnace Golem. When they see you coming from a mile away, they will launch fiery jets and fireballs from both their hands and feet. They will also leap into the air and crash down as you approach, setting off a massive chain reaction of explosions.
This, as well as the slightly smaller form where they just stomp with one foot, can be avoided by jumping as soon as the feet touch the ground. Remember that a Furnace Golem can swing at you with both hands if you are fighting it from above, so you should never think that you are secure.
Staying behind the Furnace Golem as much as possible is your best option if you’re on the ground. You should also be sure to summon a Spirit Ash, like the Mimic Tear, to assist deflect some of the aggro during the early phases of the fight. The Golem will frequently try to pick you up with a sweeping hand if you’re in front of them, which will cause you to be flung into their basket and instantly murdered.
How do you get them into the basket of a Hefty Pot? Basically, you have to either get the Furnace Golem closer to you or get it to stand on your level. Furnace Golems that lack leg armour can be assaulted from the ground. This will cause them to lose their stance and fall once you’ve sufficiently damaged both of their legs, not just one.
You have two options from here: hurl a Hefty Fire/Furnace Pot into the basket or deal a critical hit to its face. It will die if you rinse and repeat this a few times, giving you some worthwhile rewards. You’ll need to use the surrounding terrain to attempt and climb above the Furnace Golem if it does have leg armour. You can also use spells and arrows to hit its face from below if you possess ranged abilities. Even though this will cause more damage, using the Hefty Pots is still the quickest way to get rid of them.
Particular Methods
- Backstab Technique: You can deal a tonne of damage with a backstab if you can get behind a Furnace Golem. Although dangerous, this has great rewards.
- Magic and Elemental harm: To get beyond their physical defences, use magic or elemental harm, particularly lightning. Consistent damage-dealing spells and incantations have the potential to be exceedingly powerful.
- Ashes & Summons: To safely land more hits, use Spirit Ashes to summon companions who can divert the golem’s attention.
Last Words of Advice
- Patience: The key is to be patient; don’t rush the battle. Be patient, watch for opportunities, and launch a calculated attack.
- Upgrade Your Armour and Weaponry: To increase your damage output and durability, make sure your armour and weaponry are at the maximum level possible.
- Take Lessons from Failures: You can learn something new from a Furnace Golem every time you encounter one. Refine your strategy based on the lessons you learned from your mistakes.
Furnace Golems in Elden Ring can be difficult to defeat, but you can defeat these flaming giants if you plan ahead and prepare properly. Remain composed, use patience, and take advantage of their shortcomings.
