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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panartias" data-source="post: 6712564" data-attributes="member: 6686897">And since someone asked me for tips on constructs, I have got some experience in……how to fight Golems:The weak spot of most constructs is their lack of real intelligence / perception. A Golem does only what it is programmed to do, if it isn’t somehow remote controlled. So usually Golems only guard a doorway or an item and don’t follow you around. (If they follow you around you can try to lure them as far away as possible, perhaps causing them to drop of the next cliff). But it pays off to keep an eye open for some kind of “controller”.  Once we had to fight our way into a tower-fortress that was guarded by no less than 13 Iron Golems. They were acting unusually “intelligent” - 3 of them ganging up on one of our fighters while the rest kept their position. I noticed that there were exactly 13 Ravens circling above the tower. I suspected some kind of connection and shot one of the Ravens down – and guess what – one of the Golems collapsed. So an almost impossible fight became easy. Another time I wanted to pass a doorway guarded by two Golems: One iron and one stone. I stepped between them and twirled my cloak around me, waiting for the one to act first. It was the iron golem. So I jumped behind the stone Golem, leaving my cloak over his head. The iron Golem smashed the head of the stone Golem in its attempt to attack me and the stone Golem tried to retaliate. Enough time for me to slip past…My first iron Golem ever I saw defeated by another mage by casting “wall of iron” without anchoring it. (The Golem was in a big square room and tried to attack us – we were still in the doorway to this room so the iron wall could fall down only to one side). If the Golem would not have left his place or stepped back in time, it wouldn’t have been defeated by the falling iron wall. Notice that in all of the cases above it was the lack of on intelligence, that was the downfall of the Golems. The properties of constructs are usually well known too. Iron Golems for example are healed by fire attacks and slowed by electrical attacks. They are susceptible to rust-monster attacks too (But shape change is a 9th level spell so this is not the easiest way to defeat an iron Golem.)</blockquote>

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