Talk:Heroes/@comment-173.66.54.247-20141128184118/@comment-5395153-20150119205507

For the Undead, all I'm saying is the Alchemist isn't worse than the Necromancer. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages throughout the game and at various different hero levels.

The Dark Dwarf Alchemist is a different kettle of fish altogether. They may be able to summon a few Golems and transmute resources, but there are a lot of problems involved. The first one is that the summon spells only ever summon 1 Golem, which makes them somewhat poor by comparison to dedicated summoning spheres (like Summoning and Necromancy). Another is that the Dark Dwarves have no spellcasting research at all, so summoning Golems is going to be a little more tricky, especially towards the later stages of a game. The biggest problem though, is that the Alchemist is almost entirely inferior to a Tinker. The Dark Dwarf Tinker is a master at pumping out infinite golems whilst at the same time using Alchemy magic that's accessible at level 5.