A ridiculously easy way to beat Adamantium Golems

[Cerek the Barbaric]

After charging after these things and battling them with melee' weapons (and suffering the effects of the noxious Cloud for my efforts), I found an exceptionally easy way to kill them.

Just purchase the Reflection Shield from Diedra in the Adventurer's Mart (bonus merchant CD or download).

I was fighting the first Adamantium Golem in the Planar Sphere and getting beaten up badly because I didn't have many weapons that would even hit it. Then I remembered this shield I had purchased and given to Jaheira.

So I did a quick re-load and sent Jaheira ahead of the party to face the golem by herself. As soon as it saw her, it started throwing boulders (since it was too big to fit through the doorway to advance any closer). Jaheira didn't have to do a thing but stand there as the boulders were Reflected by the Shield back at the golem (doing anywhere from 2-4 hit points per hit). Naturally, it took quite a while to kill the golem this way, but Jaheira was far enough away to avoid it's Cloud attack and the rest of the party just sat back and watched as the golem slowly - but surely - killed itself.

I used this same strategy on the lower level of the Sphere. Jaheira killed every golem down there singlehandedly. Her Gauntlets of Ogre Power, Sling +2, and Bullets +2 made very short work of the Stone Golems (avg 14-15 hp per hit). Meanwhile, the Adamantium Golems took care of themselves once again.

[Lord]

Hmm, I never knew that adamantite golems even through bolders! I just simply had Jaheira walk up to them and kick there A$$ with the rod of smiting. Either they save vs. death, or they're gone (adamantite golems seem to almost always save with death, but the rod is effective against them still). What's required to hit them...like, +4 and higher?

[Joely]

Go the reflection shield it is indeed a good help, but yeah you said the golem threw boulders?!?
I never knew that, neverhappened to me they just stood in the doorway, have you got like a mod or something installed that would change monsters attacks at all?

ah i dunno what im talking about....

[andrewas]

Golems only throw boulders with the Tactics mod installed.

[Lord]

Originally posted by andrewas: Golems only throw boulders with the Tactics mod installed.

Thanks for clarifying that

[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Lord: Hmm, I never knew that adamantite golems even through bolders! I just simply had Jaheira walk up to them and kick there A$$ with the rod of smiting. Either they save vs. death, or they're gone (adamantite golems seem to almost always save with death, but the rod is effective against them still). What's required to hit them...like, +4 and higher?

I think you need a +3 or better weapon. Most of my characters have +2 weapons, and they were largely ineffective. My assassin does have a +3 dagger, but there is now way I'm gonna be able to take an Adamantium Golem down with one puny dagger.

So it was Jaheira and her Reflection Shield to the rescue.

[Joely]

Ahh so thats it [img]graemlins/agree.gif[/img] i was indeed confused haha so what types of mods are there? This shouldnt contain spoilers should it...nah

[SixOfSpades]

For most enemies, using the Reflection Shield like this would be an abuse of the game's poor AI. No creature in the game is scripted to recognize that its own attacks are being used against it (unless Weimer had written that little tidbit in for them), but since all Golems are supposed to be only slightly more intelligent than your average earthworm, it should be OK in this case.

[Legolas The Magnificent]

im playing assasin now and indeed they kick these whatchamacaulit? GOLEMS arses. just hide in shadow... poison thy weapon ( i used a +2 sword) then voila!

[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Legolas The Magnificent: im playing assasin now and indeed they kick these whatchamacaulit? GOLEMS arses. just hide in shadow... poison thy weapon ( i used a +2 sword) then voila!

That's a pretty cool technique, Legolas M. I didn't think golems would be affected by poison (it doesn't make any sense, really), but if the game allows it, far be it from me to take advantage of it.