Golem! Why Are You So Strong?

[NoeleVeerod]

When did Golem's ranged and poison attacks become so strong? Not that he wasn't ridiculously easy to put down before as he could barely smite anyone, but now he can cut 200-300 health points upon smacking one of his projectiles to anyone's face. I can't read any damage buff to the Golem in the last patches' notes, so... yeah, when did that happen?

[Calsius]

Oh, interesting. He may have had his stats altered for his new model and form that is coming out, and his stats were coded in by accident maybe. I don't really know, coding is beyond me. Hmm.

[Spirit_of_Night]

His projectiles were always very damaging if they actually hit you, but they should be relatively easy to dodge unless he's pulled you to point blank

[11.11.11]

I think its to do with the buff that all enemy poison attacks got buffed a hotfix or two ago. In fact it may even been the update before last - around the time when toxic ancients started to get a lot of hate for almost instantly downing most frames. 

 

As for if / when it'll get changed, no clue, not sure if this is how they're meant to occur or not. 

 

 

 

His projectiles were always very damaging if they actually hit you, but they should be relatively easy to dodge unless he's pulled you to point blank

 

 

And this ^ - his poison projectiles are only really an issue if you stay still. Gollum isn't too hard to combat, just keep moving and tracking him as you circle him.

Edited August 15, 2013 by 11.11.11

[Rawmelon789]

at first i thought they had already given golem his new model but i came back disappointed  that the only changes to him is the stats 

[0Pinger]

Oh, interesting. He may have had his stats altered for his new model and form that is coming out, and his stats were coded in by accident maybe. I don't really know, coding is beyond me. Hmm.

 

Going by the live stream same goes for DE_Steve, hence we saw the reputation screens that crashed the game ;p

 

But yeah he is tougher and his fart cloud does not get removed, so its a lottery if you can actually get the loot without dying