Greedy Goblins. Is there strategy involved?

What's the story?

I've only played long enough to reach lvl 52 and have about a half dozen spawn. I finally cornered one to execute a rotation of chain lightning, ball lightning and lightning strike. It seems like an outrageous amount of hit points. Of the three full rotations it took about a tenth off its' bar. That health pull is something else.

Am I missing something?

 

Corner him. Freeze him in place. Use red essence and hit him as fast as you can. Use your guardian to help.

 

Thanks Dragonnns, I'll keep that in mind. I doubt that will work atm with my particular talent and wisdom setup. I'm pushing the difficulty level with a glass canon and even one ordinary enemy hurts.

 

I wish these guys would get fixed. The three instances of greedy mobs are ridiculous with high HP. greedy sentinel (map clear) and deeps of demise sentinel are pretty high hp, but can be done in a group in the 2-3 minutes or so you get to kill it. corner, stun, maim.. but solo or maybe in group on higher difficulties it can still be troublesome or quite frankly impossible.

treasure chest greedy sentinels are a joke..(sewers worm is another) they dissappear in literally 20 seconds. no chance outside of normal/painful, especially solo.

they really should invest in making these guys stick around like above or further increase the respected time for # of players and or difficulty setting, considering their drops are not all that great.

tbh i just avoid these guys more often than not due to the flaws in their design.

 

As @RantNRave said, the loot isn't worth the effort, at least, not until your toon strength is relatively OP for the difficulty level you're running. I'd say, wait until you're able to run at least one difficulty level higher with no essence before tackling a Greedy Goblin on the lower difficulty level (e.g., if you can run Excruciating with no essence, then you can probably kill Greedy Goblins on Painful).

The only place where it might be worth trying (by blowing through your better essence): Secret Lairs. I've only seen Greedy Goblins once in a Secret Lair (I pretty much only play them as part of the Defeat the Undefeatables event), don't recall killing even one of that wave of enemies, so don't have first-hand knowledge of the amount of clovers they drop, but have been told they can be generous.