:wavey: Hello everyone I've had this game for about 2 weeks now and I just decided to start out as a pure melee and dodge character now i made it preety easily thru everything till i got to the BMC :akimbo: and I'm stuck at this annoying Ore golem can't seem to kill the bastard I've tried several times but the ass always rapes my party :evil: please someone help me! Oh, and by the way I'm a level 14 fighter.
There is a couple of things you could try here. One is to switch back and forth from real-time to turn-based. Since the golems move so slowly, they use alot of APs during turn based combat. So what you would do is get right up to one (in turn-based mode), hit it until you're almost out of AP, then switch to real-time and run away. Once you're about a screen away from the golem, switch back to turn-based. The golem will spend all his APs for his turn walking towards you, and won't have enough left to attack. Then on your turn, hit him some more, switch back to real-time, run away, etc. Or, you could tell your followers to wait about a half a screen away. Then run up to the golem in real time, attack him, and then run back to where your party is. Once the golem gets in range, they'll start attacking him. All you have to do is keep running around them so the golem chases you while they beat his ass.
You could also try for a better weapon, if you can manage. The Arcane Axe is sometimes sold by the gypsy woman in east Tarant. It's a very powerful magic weapon (well, it CAN be, depending on your aptitude), and to my knowledge, it doesn't damage itself when you hit an Ore Golem with it. So you can whack away at the guy for decent damage, while running or retreating to heal as necessary, and you won't get all your toys busted up in the process. If you're neutral or tech-leaning, buy a bunch of tech manuals and build a pyrotechnic axe. You'll have to have 3 ranks in Smithy, so this may not be perfect, but the Pyro Axe is an awesome weapon that does tons of fire damage - since the ore golem is mostly resistant to regular damage, the Pyro Axe will chop right through him (presuming you can hit him - my experience was that ore golems sometimes dodge a lot). As a melee/dodge character, these guys are annoying, but it's mostly all about equipment. You are what you wield. Final note: Impact damage (maces/axes/fists) tends to be more effective, so if you have some good gauntlets and high strength, you could try punching the golem. P.S. If you really wanna trivilialize this, go to Ashbury and get the Dog. He eats golems for breakfast and washes them down with seething masses for brunch.
Yeah, those guys were a pain in the butt the first time I went through there. What you can do is go to the Tarant sewers and Level up. at level 20, those golems were a piece of cake. Also, Dog helps out quite a bit 8)
Oh, hey thanks Milo and everyone else but I solved this on my own by just going back to Tarant and buying a good axe (since they can take alot of punishment) I wen't back and started up turn-based and pounded him to the floor _ Now I'm level 41 and on way to Thanatos.
