Talk:Gargoyle/@comment-68.108.24.10-20120701051236/@comment-68.13.174.111-20120716225741

To be honest, despite the supposed preference for magic damage, i -always- end up killing gargoyles with my bow (I also play almost always as an assassin or ranger). I don't notice them taking that much less damage than other monsters from my physical attacks - sure, it takes one extra fivefold flurry, but its hardly a significant problem.

Then again, since I reached the postgame I came to recognize that pawns are basically useless - you are way better off with Autonomy being active. During both my playthroughs (I just 1000/1000'd the game on Sunday), I used my pawn all the time for quest knowledge, but in the everfall, my pawn, whether as a sorceror, ranger or strider, has been so completely pointless when compared to Autonomy. I use Ascalon but carry Heaven's Key so that I have the option of activating Gale Harness and Invisibility if I need to (Primarily I use this combination to quickly clear out the chimera/gorechimera/lich fight in the Chamber of Fate).

The succubi in the gargoyle areas are far more annoying in my experience - their dives are more likely to hit you when you try to dodge, immobilize you longer, and they flutter around and are harder to target at short range with a bow than the stationary-hovering gargoyles.