Veseljko replied to Golem / Gjall - Not worth the effort March 27, 2023 @ 9:18:22 am PDT
I made that axe just for completion's sake, but it's really bad and unnecessary. Hardly worth mentioning as a positive. Not to mention, you can't get through the Mistlands (ok, I'm sure someone did...but they had to try really hard) without killing at least a few of those windbags. The Black Forest and Swamp big-bads, I actually hunted on purpose. The worst is the one from the mountains though. Takes so long to kill with the weapons you have at the time and the reward is...meh. My wife and I would groan every time we saw one.
Stone golems are so easy to kill once you figure out how to do it. You need no more than 3 hits if you have high clubs skill. Parry - heavy attack, parry - heavy attack, parry - heavy attack and it's done. 20 second tops.
One cool trick is to sneak up on him and open the fight with heavy attack, you can deal up to 600 dmg in one hit (depends greatly on your skill level). His total HP is 800, so it's 75% of his HP in one hit. On lower clubs skill it will probably be around 350-400 dmg.
Even with low clubs skill you can kill it with 5-6 hits with iron mace or Porcupine. Probably in less than a minute.
5:13 pm, March 27, 2023