Maldar, the Magnificent

[MongoJerry]

As for the clay golem, he would be a good distraction, but isn't bone wall/prison better since they're boosted and stronger? He's still a fun one to have around though. He also appears stronger than he is since slowness can be interpreted as more life.

Actually, there are some things that totally ignore bone walls and bone prisons -- things I'm likely to talk about in the writeups of the adventures in various Acts. But to give you a preview, I found out that ghosts fly right through bone walls and bone prisons without hesitation -- a nice realistic touch of Blizzard's, I must say. So ghost champions and bosses scare the heck out of me -- especially if they're extra fast. A clay golem could be useful to distract a ghost boss for a second while I run away. Also, I found out a trick with ghosts using town portals, but I'll wait for the writeups to describe it. It's pretty cool.

Also, the Ancients totally ignore bone walls and bone prisons (although walls and prisons do stop Madawc's throwing axes) and the granddaddy of them all -- OK's -- shoot bone spirits right through walls and prisons. So, again, I'm thinking the clay golem could be used as a distractor for a couple of seconds while I'm dealing with OK's. At only around 600 life, though, he won't last very long in a fight.

Again, I don't plan to use clay golems much. I plan to use bone prisons and bone walls mostly like you suggested. But I wanted to have the option to cast one in special circumstances.