Is there, anywhere, a site which gives actual hard information on golems? I am getting so tired of guessing, rather than knowing, what weapons will hit which golems, whether any spells will hurt them, etc.
If only it had occured to someone to make "books" about actual monsters, rather than about nothing--I mean the books you find in the game. "Secrets of the Golems" or "Types of Vampires", containing info on HP, strengths, weakness, etc., would actually be worth collecting. "The History of the North" is not.
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The only Golems to really worry about (or at least that I do) are the Clay golems (can only be hit with enchanted/magical bludgeoning weapons) and the Adamanite Golem... Every other golem I've encountered were easily killable with regular weapons.
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In short: You need magical weapons to fight golems. clay golems are immune to cut damage (no sword, please).
Stone you need +2, and for the iron and admantite golem you need +3 weapons (and even these weapons do little damage), most magic is useless.
There is a section here in the strategy guide which describes tactics to fight golems, it has only small piece of information but take a look.
In short: You need magical weapons to fight golems. clay golems are immune to cut damage (no sword, please).
Stone you need +2, and for the iron and admantite golem you need +3 weapons (and even these weapons do little damage), most magic is useless.
There is a section here in the strategy guide which describes tactics to fight golems, it has only small piece of information but take a look.
If I remember correctly, I killed the Adamantite golem with Lilarcor +3, a sword. I stood back out of the door, and I had better reach with a 2-h sword (tell me that makes sense!) than the huge golem, and hacked on it till it fell. Am I completely off base here, or is it *not* supposed to be immune to slashing? If someone could test this...
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From what I've seen in the game here are the
admantite not immune to slashing weapons, I (alias keldorn) used lilacor also. I heard that slashing weapons do only half damage but could never prove that myself.
But BG2 has definitly bugs in their internal description of weapons, some of their magical weapons have the wrong damage type (example; hammer dwarven thrower, if wielded it's correct bludge weapon, if thrown its slashing ...). May this explain some strange things.
Clay golem are not immune to magical bludgeoing weapon, try a (correct, see above) magical hammer or flail.
Monster above a certain level can hit monster which are immune to normal weapon, there is a rule which gives them this feature like a monk (trained to fight with his hands) can also hit monster immune to normal weapons.
admantite not immune to slashing weapons, I (alias keldorn) used lilacor also. I heard that slashing weapons do only half damage but could never prove that myself.
But BG2 has definitly bugs in their internal description of weapons, some of their magical weapons have the wrong damage type (example; hammer dwarven thrower, if wielded it's correct bludge weapon, if thrown its slashing ...). May this explain some strange things.
Clay golem are not immune to magical bludgeoing weapon, try a (correct, see above) magical hammer or flail.
Monster above a certain level can hit monster which are immune to normal weapon, there is a rule which gives them this feature like a monk (trained to fight with his hands) can also hit monster immune to normal weapons.