Defeating Golem as a Rogue in Calamity Mod requires a blend of agile movement, precise strikes, and utilizing the unique benefits of rogue weaponry and accessories, particularly those with lingering damage effects.
Mastering Golem as a Rogue
Golem is a mechanical boss encountered in the Lihzahrd Temple, fought in two distinct phases: first, its body with detached fists, and then its head. As a rogue, your primary advantage lies in your speed and the ability to deal consistent damage while maintaining distance and dodging incoming attacks. Focusing on weapons that can hit multiple targets or leave behind lingering projectiles is highly effective, allowing you to focus on evasion while damage accumulates.
Recommended Rogue Weapons
Choosing the right weapons is crucial for maximizing your damage output against Golem's armored body and fast-moving head.
- Brackish Flask: This weapon is exceptionally strong against Golem. Its projectiles shatter into multiple shards upon impact, and critically, these shards linger for a duration, dealing continuous damage to any part of Golem they touch. This makes it outstanding for hitting the body, fists, and head simultaneously.
- Malachite: A versatile post-Plantera rogue weapon that can home in on enemies, providing reliable damage even when Golem is moving erratically.
- Turbulence: This weapon rapidly fires controllable boomerangs that pierce enemies, allowing for consistent damage against Golem's main body and its fists.
- Death's Ascension: If you've defeated The Plaguebringer Goliath, Death's Ascension is a powerful choice, firing energy orbs that deal significant damage and pierce.
Essential Armor & Accessories
Your gear setup should prioritize a balance of rogue damage, critical strike chance, and crucial mobility.
Armor Sets
- Umbraphile Armor: This set, crafted with Ectoplasm, offers excellent rogue damage bonuses, stealth strike chances, and improved stealth regeneration, making it the top choice for this stage of the game.
Accessories
- Duststorm in a Bottle: While an accessory, the Duststorm in a Bottle is remarkably effective due to its ability to release sand block projectiles when dashing. These projectiles linger and deal continuous damage, greatly contributing to your overall DPS against Golem's various parts. This allows you to focus on dodging while still dealing consistent damage.
- Angel Treads / Seraph Tracers: Essential for maximum mobility, granting flight, fast acceleration, and movement speed.
- Rogue Emblem: A direct damage boost for all rogue attacks.
- Deific Amulet: Further increases damage and critical strike chance.
- Aero Stone: Boosts movement speed and damage.
- Worm Scarf / Bloody Worm Scarf: Provides a flat damage reduction, which can be invaluable for surviving Golem's powerful attacks.
- Elysian Guard: An excellent defensive accessory that provides damage reduction and prevents contact damage from most projectiles.
Arena Setup & Combat Strategy
A well-prepared arena significantly simplifies the fight against Golem.
Arena Preparation
- Flat Multi-Tiered Arena: Construct a large, flat arena with at least 2-3 layers of platforms spaced roughly 15-20 blocks apart. This provides ample space for dodging and gives you vertical movement options.
- Lihzahrd Power Cells: Ensure you have enough Lihzahrd Power Cells to summon Golem multiple times if necessary. You'll need one for each attempt.
Combat Strategy
- Phase 1 (Body & Fists):
- Focus on taking out Golem's detached fists first. They are less durable than the main body and eliminating them reduces the number of incoming projectiles.
- Utilize weapons with lingering projectiles like the Brackish Flask or the damage contribution from Duststorm in a Bottle to hit both the fists and the main body simultaneously.
- Maintain a moderate distance, circling Golem and its fists to avoid its punches and laser attacks.
- When the fists are down, concentrate all fire on Golem's body.
- Phase 2 (Head):
- Once the body is destroyed, Golem's head detaches and becomes much more agile, often bouncing around erratically. Its antennae also detach and fire lasers.
- Prioritize dodging the head's unpredictable bounces and the antennae's lasers. Your high mobility from accessories like Angel Treads and the continuous damage from lingering projectiles will be your best friends here.
- Continuously aim for the head. The Brackish Flask and Malachite are excellent for this phase due to their tracking or lingering damage.
Potions & Buffs
Never go into a boss fight without proper buffs.
- Rogue Potion: Increases rogue damage.
- Calamitas' Brew: Boosts various stats including damage and critical strike chance.
- Endurance Potion: Reduces incoming damage.
- Ironskin Potion: Increases defense.
- Regeneration Potion: Accelerates health recovery.
- Swiftness Potion: Increases movement speed, crucial for dodging.
- Adrenaline Potion & Rage Potion: Significant damage boosts when activated.
By combining potent rogue weaponry with the strategic use of items like the Brackish Flask and the continuous damage from the Duststorm in a Bottle, along with careful dodging and arena preparation, you will be well-equipped to defeat Golem as a Rogue.
