Fighting golems

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I'm in the winspear hills dungeon. And I encountered a hallway with different golems. There was an iron one and I think some clay ones. Maybe stone ones. I think all those golems are magic resistant, and my understanding is blunt weapons work against them. Does that include quarter staffs? Would Mauler's arm +2 mace that sets strength to 18 (which I have equipped on Viconia)be a good weapon to fight those golemns?
And how do you take out the iron golem. I have Viconia, Korgan, Edwin, Jaheira, Yoshimo, and the assassin I created.
Korgan has the battle axe +3 stone fire.
Would fireball spells and Agannazars scorcher work on them?
By the way are there any portraits for Edwin as a female?

 

No, spells do not work on them. The exception is this: Melfs minute missles. These little babies do 2-3 damage per hit. It may not sound like much, but if your having a hard time with iron golems, its best (perhaps cheesy, most likely tactical) to run past a small door. The golem will try to follow but it will be unable to reach your party. From there, blast it with MMM and perhaps arrows?(dont know for certain about arrows, i stick to MMM). At early levels its suicide to fight toe to toe with these things.

Im not sure if the ax will work... that is the physical damage will be resisted, but the fire damage may go through... someone will have to confirm this.

Yes, if you can get a fighter buffed up enough to last long enough against an IG, quarter staffs and any other blunt weapons should work. The staff of striking would be nice for this purpose.

 

The big guy is probably stuck in the doorway blocking the other smaller golems from getting to you. So take them out with a ranged weapon. If you want to use spells against them, use Pierce Magic first to reduce their magic resistance. Slow will reduce their attacks per round.
iirc any +3 weapon should work against golems. just make sure it is a two-handed one so you are not really close to it. It is possible that the golem wont be able to reach you.

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You can use the white strength spell to reduce the golems strength. This will decrease its THAC0 and damage.

 

Only blunt weapons work on Clay golems,+2 on Stone golems and +3 on Iron golems.
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Cast stoneskin on Edwin,go with him to hallway,step back and while Iron golem is attacking him,hack'n slash with all your party.Celestial Fury is very useful against Iron ones

 

And to address the sole remaining question, Ease of Use has a component that changes Edwin's portrait to a female one when he gets transformed.

 

I recommend Flail of Ages +3

 

Make sure you get out of that hallway and into the bottom room so the iron golem cannot reach you. Then whack away from in there using Lilarcor and Flail of Ages. Once the iron golem falls, get ready, the other two will rush in. Make sure you have haste, bless, prayer and other buffs casted.

 

If you have a cloudkill wand with lots of charges, this can be used to kill golems! Very cheesy tactic, have the bigger badder irongolem block the path, other stonies and clays will not be able to reach you! Cast cloudkills from the WAND 4-5 times and watch them die! They will take 5-50 damage each round and will die fast. But if iron golem dies before the others, the others may rush to you after the way is opened. Though they will still be heavily damaged.
A very CHEESY tactic but it's the best!

 

The weapons that I can think of that could take the golems out, specifically the iron one:
1) Flail of the ages (if completed and done d'arnise)
2) Warhammer +1, +3(or +4?) vs Giantkin
3) Battleaxe +3 (also d'arnise)

Mind you, boost one or two fighters up, wielding any of those 3 weapons, with spells, armor, etc, as much as you can, and then send them in, and have a cleric just out of reach of the spells the iron golem casts, so if someone gets poisoned, dart in, cure poison, dart out.

Also, probably the best weapon in all, to take out an iron golem, unless you've got the Holy Avenger already and a paladin in your party, is if you have the collector's edition stores installed. There's an awfully nice +5 sling which doesn't require bullets.

Also, before I forget, there is also, another useful missile type weapon that can take them out from a distance, the short bow from trademeet, which again doesn't require ammunition, so as long as you don't have arrows left in your quiver, I'm pretty sure even though piercing weapons won't hurt the iron golem, the magical damage of the "phantom" arrows, most certainly will.

So, all in all, even without collector's edition, there's 4 weapons earlyish on, you can use to take out golems. Of course if you come across the adamitite, than only those two missile weapons, and the Holy Avenger will work, really. Well the FoA will, but well you don't want to get into melee with one of them

 

There is also a magic bow that you can buy in Trademeet (after completing the djinn quest), which doesn't have a string, but fires unlimited arrows. That takes down iron (adamantine?) golems. I always do that quest before the de arnise hold and windspear hills.

 

Adamantine/iron golems are too big to for doorways and such. A cheesy way of dealing with them is to take out the smaller golems (if there are any) with ranged weapons and usinq staffs on the big ones. Since you will be out of their range they won't be able to hit you.

 

Not sure of any ranged weapons that will kill Clay golems, but yeah, take out the Stones first (Arrows and Bullets +2 will do fine). If you relly want to use spells, you'll find that Lower Resistance will get you a better effect then Pierce Magic (I think it lowers by *casterLevel* + 10%, Pierce Magic just lowers by *casterLevel* %) If you get caught somewhere without doors, summons can soak up the damage while you pelt them with ranged attacks (Only place i can remember at the moment is in Chapter 7). One last thought, while the Flail of Ages is a good choice for any Golem, it is very good vs. Clays, as its slow effect will counteract their Haste. Oh, yes, there is are two insti-kill capable weapons for use on Golems, one is a Hammer, the other a Rod.

 

Crom Freyr( I spelt wrong) but I don't know about rod

 

The rod can be bought in Ust Natha. IMO, it's a crappy one. I've tried to kill golems with it, and it was the same as killing elementals with Staff of Air or Staff of Fire - it almost never worked.

So, I switched to good old Melf's Minute Meteors.

 

Thanks for the advice everyone. I found the Club +3 Blackblood which I bought from Trademeet to be very helpful. it does 1D6 +3 +3 acid damage.Would the flail of ages be better even though Jaheira doesn't have prof in flail? She has sword and shield style one prof. I used the Tasheron's bow +3 for the iron golem. I think when you get within melee range of the iron golem even on other side of door it can still do damage. By the way Korgan's axe wasn't very effective. Maybe i should try the boomerang axe. What would the electrical warhammer do to the golems? Can i backstab golems succesfully with a blunt weapon such as a mace,one handed staff, or 2 handed staff?

 

You can backstab with any weapon.

 

If you cast the 5th level cleric spell Magic Resistance on an Iron/Ademite Golem you can lower the magic resistance significantly - This is because the spell sets the MR, instead of raising it. Also MR does not prevent the casting of it and there is no save.

 

@ Jechor:

It's only possible to backstab with weapons a thief can use.

 

Golems have no vulnerable or critical parts which a thief can identify and hit for enhanced damage. Thus they cant be backstabbed.