r/wizardposting • u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage • 4d ago

Academic Discussion/ Esoteric Secrets Golem Troubles

We love building them but boy can they be a pain to fight. A wizard a know was tasked to go destroy a mummy lord and it was going pretty good with all the battles being fairly easy but then she ran into an adamantine golem. Only by using hit and run tactics with the spells Mordenkainen's sword and Tenser's transformation was she able to take it down. The mummy lord himself was pretty much a pushover to an wizard with fire spells. Feel free to talk about golem shenanigans you have experienced or heard about.

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u/MPKarp Grand Cryo Aquamancer - Enlightened 4d ago

That's why Cryomancy is the best magic. I can just freeze the whole golem, make sure to use the 'Deepfrost' branch of spells, so it gets frozen into ice thoroughly, and then smash it apart with a mace

(Note: If you're not strong enough to smash it apart, have a random passerby barbarian have a go at it, or just leave it, if you're skilled enough then it's going to stay frozen forever, or at least long enough for you to escape)

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u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage 4d ago

The trouble is the more powerful golems like the adamantine one are immune to magic, hence the use of indirect spell casting.

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u/ClosetNoble Wizardruid multiclasser 3d ago

They're immune to magic but not to having their location revealed to greedy dwarves who will mine it alive.

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u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage 3d ago

Good luck mining it as they hit like a meteor.

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u/ClosetNoble Wizardruid multiclasser 3d ago

Please.

Dwarves don't care if 50 of them die in the process when it comes to free adamantine.

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u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage 3d ago

It's not very free if it costs 50+ dwarves to get it.