Crank up your damage as high as possible with Strong Steel, diamond dust and a thunderbolt potion. Use a Tawny Owl potion as well and hit it with Igni every time you get enough endurance. The golem is really slow, so if you take too much damage just run out of reach and wait for your Swallow potion to work.
I thought it was for activiating the golem originally, and the pylons were associated with that. Electricity woke him up, why would more electricity kill him rather than healing him?Firehawk said:you don't have to hit him once. what do you think the lightning rod is for?
An easy fight heres how i beat the Golem Sharpened Sword took Swallow, Owl Potions had Blizzard just in case! Realising the Golem is perhaps one of the slowest enemys in the game i used my signs, Starting with the sign you place on the floor, let the Golem approach he will more than likley take a hit knocking him back then while standing behind the Spell on the floor hit him with Igni the fire spell fully charged keep doing this and he will never even hit you! I only used the Electric Shock method once on him that takes his life down to roughly three quarters.Realising that this strat was a bit to easy i waded in and smaked the hell out of him a few times but the damage achived with your swords is terrible so...
If like me you tend to run into things a little unprepared, a good way of defeating the golem is to use the yrden and your steel sword (strong style) or an axe - stay close to the pylons and use them as much as you can as well. Start by running away - go to the furthest away pylon and activate then cast yrden on the ground in front of you. Wait till the golem takes damage from it and beat him back with your sword or axe with a good flurry of blows - then retreat back to the yrden sign - he is stupid and will keep walking over it. If you time his position right you can do another yrden which dispells the original one but increases the damage in the area round about you. Repeat until he's dead... I'd personally recommend using a blizzard potion that way you are a lot more mobile and can reach all the pylons which are easier to take him out with - though the second time I did this the pylons didn't do a damned thing so had to take him down the hard way! ;D
get him in the dead centre of the triangle when you activate the last pylon and the lighening will kill him. don't know what you lot are goin on about 1 direct lightening strike will kill him
Like others already said, there's no need to try to fight the golem. Take a Swallow potion. Activate the golem and start running in circles around outside the pylons, and activate them one at a time. Every time the third pylon is activated, a lightning strikes. It usually hits the golem but if it hits you, keep running around until you're healed again. It was much more fun do that way than try to fight the golem -- I couldn't do more than a few points of damage to it at one hit.
If you descide to fight the golem without the pylons (I didn't think of the pylons at all.. ), just whoop out your Axii sign and let the sucker just walk into it. He'll take some damage and get knockbacked. Couple this with some Igni signs and just sit it out, or jump in from time to time to whoop him with your 1 damage per hit awesome attack skillz.. A Tawny owl potion would be nice though. - Zoink
), just whoop out your Axii sign and let the sucker just walk into it. He'll take some damage and get knockbacked. Couple this with some Igni signs and just sit it out, or jump in from time to time to whoop him with your 1 damage per hit awesome attack skillz.. A Tawny owl potion would be nice though. - ZoinkAll that fancy stuff probably works, but you can also take the bonehead route like I did and just quaff a Swallow and keep hitting him with Strong Style. Can't remember which sword I used, but I was able to do around 3-6 points per hit. It did take forever, ended up using three Swallows, but the Golem never had a chance, just make sure to run away and regenerate if you get below half vitality.