Guild Wars 2

As you might know or not know, the Golem Mark II has become harder due to some very hard AoE effects. There are however some very helpfull techniques.

Besides watching for the rings and dodging away, the most important thing is that there are safe spots. These are round the the place where the chest spawns.

The range however is 1200, so it is important to know what weapons you can use. You can target and reach the golem, but you cant auto-attack so you have to spam your range 1200 skills. To give a list

Warrior: longbow + rifle
Guardian: scepter
Ranger: longbow
Thief: none
Engineer: rifle
Necromancer: staff
Elementalist: Staff + conjure frostbow
Mesmer: Greatsword (prefered cause higher damage ranged) + staff

So basicly all professions but thief can use safe spots. For an Ele it would be really helpfull to bring conjure frostbow. For all others, it would be kind if you leave conjured frostbows on the ground for those poor thiefs.

Thief: Deionizing Arcanoduster + Signet of Malice

It’s a close-range attack but you will be able to keep your health up. Dodge away from electricity if it spawns under your feet. Using Feline Grace will let you dodge more.

I have been and still melee on my guard. 2h sword is best for damage but especially now I use my shield and mace to help counter damage done by the electric field. It does alot more damage now (cant stand in it) but I have seen far more unforgiving AOE fields in the game.

The flaw that Anet has never addressed is that the electric field AoE lacks the red ‘rings’ displaying enemy ‘hurt’ fields. This causes problems where a mob of players may be placing combo fields left and right and all you can see are a field of white sprites. On my thief, I could be downed in 2-3 secs under all the color confusion (heck, I’d do better soloing this boss even with all the inquest/golems).

This is not even mentioning the problem for melee players’ view being obstructed by the boss when it ‘crosses’ his arms in front, otherwise they have to stand behind it with a low camera angle and seeing even less of the dangerous ground tiles.

Engineers and rangers with 1500 range weapons can stand right on the edge of the platform. We get knocked off sometimes but that’s all.

Sadly Golem II is bugged on Gunnars Hold and not spawning at all. (Also the Claw of Jormag is bugged half way through phase one and can’t be completed; it’s a bad day for bosses on GH

Attack from the stairs and the golem basically can’t do jack to you.