Talk:Metal Golem/@comment-33780977-20190626192337/@comment-33780977-20190629223833

OK, did some [tiresome] research and here're the results:

1. The devs are di*ks. It's next to impossible to handle slaying this guy as pure melee, espepecially as Fighter who can only slash mid air (and MG is terribly resistant to slash). It'd take just 1m less for the most elevated discs so Fighter had at least a chance to succeeed, but no, they "encourage" the use of Pawns.

2. And pawns are pawns. Most of the time they climb (sic!) the Metal Golem, and the least time spend on sniping the aerial discs.

3. As for the M. Golem himself. It may be staggered by attacking any of its body parts. I confirmed this for Sixfold bolt, Explosive rivet, Mighty Bend, Deathly arrow, longbow core shots, Burst strike  and Tusk toss. Excluded Frigor and High Ingle, but probably with better weapons it will work too. So, Meatal Golem is like any other enemy, just more resistant and lacks weak spots (sadly, staggering it doesn't create opportunity for knockdown).

3.1 But after being softened by constant attacks it can be staggered repeatedly by attacking all its limbs one after the other.

3.2 All direct attacks deal no damage to it, just stagger.

3.3 And Great sacrifice is NOT an exception. It can stagger Metal Golem in one, indirect, hit. Still the spell can beautifully wipe out lots of discs with one shot thanks to ~20m blast radius. Also, it does destroy discs on direct hit too. And if discs are wiped out with sneak attack Golem will not even rage.

4. Metal Golem starts calm, and begins to rage if any medal is barely scratched. When calm can be knocked down by interrupting its laser discharge, when raging, only staggered. But breaking its discs fast enough will result in knockdown, so preferably damage all medals till near death and then finish them one by one to repeatedly stagger and knock down the Metal Golem.

5. Golem can and will damage its own medals with its arm swings. And it has impressing repertoir of attacks for every altitude. Still the highest one requires climbing to its top.

6. Just like with regular Golem its laser is harmless (and ready to be interrupted by an attack to its "mouth") but where it hits it produces explosions after a second or so - they can be avoided by not touching the ground (I just climb Golem when it fires).